Social Mobilization
The social mobilization process has been
taken as one of the key programme
components of Poverty Alleviation Fund
(PAF). The objective of the social
mobilization is to create awareness
among the community people (poor
women, Dalit and Janajati), help them
to organize, empower them for
decision-making so that they can identify
and prioritize their needs. It is also
expected to build up capacity for
preparation, implementation, operation
and management of community subprojects
to enhance their livelihoods.
Partner Organizations (POs) identify the
settlements of target communities based
on the secondary information available
in the district: ethnicity, income level
and access to basic service facilities. The
consultation is done with concerned
stakeholders and key informants. After
identification of the settlement, POs
facilitate communities for participatory
social assessment/well-being ranking.
Individual households of a settlement
are categorized as the hardcore poor,
medium poor, poor and non-poor by
the communities themselves.
Hardcore poor, medium poor and poor
are encouraged to organize into
Community Organizations (CO) to
ensure that the poor take decisions for
themselves. Keeping the target
communities at the driving seat, it
encourages to take initiatives to improve
their livelihoods, particularly organizing
them into Community Organizations.
Community Organization (CO) is
formed with membership from the
defined households during social
assessment. At least 80 per cent of the
CO members have to be poor women,
Dalits and Janjatis. It is also mandatory
that 50 per cent members of a CO
should be women and key positions
(Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary)
must be fulfilled by poor woman, Dalit
and Janjatis.
Community Organization (CO) with active
participation of each member enlists problems,
interests, needs and aspirations. After seeking
necessary and relevant information, Community
Organization (CO) identifies and prioritizes
community sub-projects based on informed
choice through a participatory manner.
Community Organization (CO) also seeks
necessary help and facilitation from Partner
Organization (PO) for technical assistance,
particularly in survey, design, market study, prefeasibility
and feasibility studies. Economically,
socially and environmentally viable community
sub-projects, prepared with participatory
Community Action Planning (CAP) process, are
selected and developed into the community
proposals and related project is implanted in the
community. All this social mobilization is
facilitated by Partner organization (PO).
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