Title: Benefit of community mobilization
Course: Level 3 - Health Education and Promotion > Section: Community mobilization

The most significant benefit is doing something to help address an issue impacting their community to save valuable resources. By getting involved, community- and faith-based organizations, health care professionals, and policy makers will jointly take actions that answer their community's problem. Community mobilization can:-

- Infuse new energy into an issue through community buy-in and support.
- Expand the base of community support for an issue or organization.
- Help a community overcome denial of a health issue.
- Promote local ownership and decision-making about a health issue.
- Limit competition and redundancy of services and outreach efforts.
- Create public presence and pressure to change laws, polices, and practices - progress that could not be made by just one individual or organization.
- Bring new community volunteers together (because of increased visibility).
- Increase cross-sector collaboration and shared resources.
- motivating the people and encouraging participation
- Increase access to funding opportunities for organizations and promote long-term, organizational commitment to social and health-related issues.

Fig 14.4 Women's army, HEW and health centre head on community mobilisation.