Community mobilisation

This module on community mobilisation has been developed as a resource pack for those humanitarian and emergency workers whose engagement with child protection, brings them into contact with communities. The module aims to provide material that can assist in understanding roles and functions of the community in the realisation of children’s protection rights, the impact emergencies and disasters have on community structures and functioning, and ways and means for agencies to mobilise people and institutions in communities to achieve improvements in children’s lives.

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Section	1	Concepts: the community and children's rights
Exercise	1	What is a community?
Exercise	2	What is a community in an emergency?
Exercise	3	The characteristics of communities and how they may be affected by emergencies
Handout	1	Scenario
Handout	2	Venn diagram of a settled community
Section	2	Characteristics of community-based approaches
Exercise	1	What is community mobilisation?
Exercise	2	Why is community mobilisation important?
Exercise	3	Community-based approaches
Exercise	4	The characteristics of a community mobilisation approach
Handout	1	Short scenarios
Handout	2	Reasons
Handout	3	Table of approaches
Handout	4	Discussion
Handout	5	Statements
Section	3	Community-based approaches methodologies
Exercise	1	Methods of understanding community structures
Exercise	2	Facilitating leadership structures and ensuring their broad representation
Handout	1	Venn diagrams
Handout	2	Scenario and questions
Section	4	Community-based approaches with specific groups and settings
Exercise	1	Mobilisation of children and young people
Exercise	2	The importance of involving women
Exercise	3	Community mobilisation for refugee women
Exercise	4	Assessment in an urban setting
Handout	1	Quiz questions
Handout	2	Scenario
Handout	3	What actually happened
Handout	4	Scenario