Social Mobilization is the process to encourage men and women to organize and form group, consisting of 15-25 members, known as a Community Organization (CO). CO 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.  

Social Mobilization sector SRSO has followed these parameters and has achieved a great success and continuing to put efforts for even greater success. SM Sector believes that success and sustainability of the Programme depends entirely on quality of social mobilization to create a proactive community highly sensitized to their problems and capable of addressing them. 

The SM Sector during the reporting period visited a number of villages and motivated the community to form Cos.

 We make utmost efforts to identify an activist who has commitment and enthusiasm to perform tasks for collective good and provide an active link between SRSO and the Community. Activist is given appropriate training for building his/her capacity aimed at assisting in accelerating the pace of social mobilization and CO formation. Equal importance is attached to identify female activists to ensure social mobilization of women in the target area.

Some of the statistics reflecting social mobilization efforts are given below in the chart.

 

Activities 1st Qtr July-Sept 2nd Qtr Oct-Dec 3rd Qtr Jan- Mar 4th Qtr Apr-June July-June 2005-06 Total No.of Households visited/dialogue held     46,335     85,375     129,065     129,065     129,065  Total CO  Formed   68   202   340   300   910 Male   51   164   263   205   683 HHs       Membership     (Male) 920   2908   4,759   3,590   12,177 Female   17   38   77   95   227 HHs Membership     (Female) 301   570   1,155   1,425   3,451 Cumulative HH Coverage  950 2965 4,875 3,733 12,522