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Key role of a Rural Support Programme is to mobilize, organize and motivate the community to take part in the development activity. Social Mobilization, thus, is the foundation of all activities. SRSO believes that success and sustainability of the Programme depends entirely on quality of social mobilization. This entails creating a proactive community sensitized to its problems and capable of addressing them. To meet such objective, community organizations are formed
.CO is a group of 15-25 members and is an
important forum for
capitalizing the people’s potential to take an active role in the management
of development activities. A mobilized community is one that is able to
identify its needs and find the resources necessary to meet those needs. Those
resources may be their own savings or labor, or funds or information from a
line Department. CO members are trained to exploit their potential to take up physical development, managed their resources and accumulate their capital.
Social Mobilization is a long and demanding process requiring guidance, supervision and monitoring of Social Mobilizers. SRSO is sensitive and alive to such vulnerabilities. Therefore SRSO has decentralized the strategy and introduced three tier social mobilization systems:
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The concept of second generation social mobilization culminating into formation of Village Development Organization (VDO)
has been introduced in the social mobilization approach and strategy. This is an
umbrella organization having more than one COs in its fold. Its objective is:
- Ensure capacity building of activists of member COs.
- Ensure participation of
villagers in the decision making about use of local resources.
- Boost
membership of at least 80 % village households in the COs and
- Strengthen
coordination with NGOs and Government Agencies .
The poverty score based on the Poverty Score Card survey exercise is the criteria for mobilization of extreme poor into the fold of CO membership.
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Three lower bands from the results of the poverty score card would be given priority for mobilization.
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Community Resource Person (activists both from existing male and female COs) are identified and trained as front line volunteer for forming new community organizations.
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The formation of the Women community organization are given priority
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In a village where 70% women have been organized, the VDO of women will be formed and Community Investment Fund would be provided for the destitute and vulnerable poor members of the COs.
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