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Social Mobilization for Reproductive Health
Date Published: 1 June 2000 Document Type: Training Manual Issue: Advocacy & Policy, Family Planning & Reproductive Health, Social Mobilization, Training Languages: English Purchase Method: Download |
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A five-day, 12-session participatory curriculum based on CEDPA's experience working with the non-governmental sector. This manual promotes social mobilization as a means for communities to declare publicly their rights to control their reproductive health and to create widespread support for those rights. Social mobilization is a dynamic, long-term process in which stakeholders use a number of techniques, including advocacy, behavior change communication, and social marketing, each one building on the next to make sustainable changes in society. Social mobilization creates the enabling environment, as well as the vehicle for broad-based change to occur. The workshop presents practical means and models for maximizing community participation and involving all stakeholders in the design and implementation of family planning and reproductive health programs. The manual is designed to strengthen the efforts of development leader and managers from both the organizations and public sectors at national and grassroots levels to increase local participation and, simultaneously, women's empowerment.