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Key
Words for the Getting Started Module
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| Action
takes place when the group, your target group, does something, in contrast
to merely learning about it. |
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The
most effective training is action training where the participants learn
by doing. |
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job as mobilizer is to both stimulate and guide community action. |
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You
have not mobilized a community if you have brought them together for a
meeting or if you have formed a committee that has done nothing yet. |
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You have mobilized
them only after they have engaged in action, ie moved.
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of your most important responsibilities is to convey information simply
and accurately, you want to convey that, yes, there is a problem, but the
solution lies with them in the community. |
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See
Awareness
Raising. Sensitizing. They may
assume you bring resources or will solve their problems (thus they get
raised expectations), but you must counteract those assumptions. |
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| Sometimes
called social animation. From the classical word anima (life, soul, fire,
auto-movement). To stimulate or mobilize a community so that it moves
itself, so that it lives, so that it develops. |
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Sometimes
used as a substitute for mobilization. Animation means uniting and
mobilizing the community to do what it (as a unity) wants to do. |
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Empowerment takes social animation a step further, using management training
methods to further increase the capacity of the community, or its community
based organizations, to decide, plan and manage its own development.
It trains community members and leaders in management techniques needed
to ensure the community takes control of its own development. |
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It
also encourages and trains government officials, local authorities and
community leaders to abandon the patronistic role of providing facilities
and services. They learn to facilitate communities to identify resources
and undertake actions to provide and maintain human settlement facilities
and services. |
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| Management
training differs from orthodox training (which emphasizes skill transfer)
in that it is used as a method of mobilizing and organizing (or reorganizing)
a management system. See "training for action," below. Also
see "community management training," above. |
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While
originally developed for senior managers of large commercial corporations,
it is a useful method to add to social animation in strengthening or empowering
low income communities and groups. |
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