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There are two ways
the word facilitation is used in community empowering:
(1) One is a facilitation
method of training and organizing participants which is more effective
than lecturing or preaching.
(2) The other is to
set up an enabling environment of facilitating self-help, where the laws,
the administrative regulations, procedures and practices, and the attitudes
of leaders, technical experts and administrators support increased responsibility
and self reliance of low income communities.
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A "faction" is a group
of people on one side of a social schism.
As a mobilizer, you
should ensure that you are not identified as supporting any one faction
in a community (explained in Unity
Organizing).
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big five factors of poverty
(as a social problem) include: ignorance,
disease,
apathy,
dishonesty
and dependency. |
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These, in turn,
contribute to secondary factors such as lack of markets, poor infrastructure,
poor leadership, bad governance, under-employment, lack of skills, lack
of capital, and others. |
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are sociological theories which examine the historical and cultural aspects
of gender and gender relations. Feminist perspectives include Marxist,
Liberal and non-Marxist approaches. |
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In your job
as a mobiliser, you need to observe and understand the nature of gender
in the community, and what gender relations impact on the potential for
empowering the community. |
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you forecast something you work out what you think is likely to happen
in the future. A forecast tells you what is likely to happen in the future. |
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A forecast
is an important consideration in planning, both for micro
enterprise and for communal
facilities. |
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"Four Questions" represent the core of management
decision making, whether it is management of a community or management
of an organization. If we take the overall decision making processes, which
vary from context to context, we can distil all to four essential questions.
Answering of these questions (which does not have to be so brief) constitutes
the basic management planning process. |
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These four
questions are:
1. What do
we want?
2. What do we have?
3. How can we use
what we have to get what we want? and
4. What will happen
when we get it?
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| In
sociology, a functional analysis, functionalism or structural functionalism
is a theoretical framework which sees society as consisting of various
elements which contribute to equilibrium in that society. |
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Criticism against
functionalism includes accusations that it supports conservatism and non
change. It is also seen as a circular argument in that functionalism
can not be proven or disproved (like a genuine scientific theory). |
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sociologists, however, do see that different aspects of a social organisation
do contribute to maintaining other aspects. Changes in one aspect,
therefore, will have effects of changing other aspects. |
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A mobiliser does not have to prove
the theory, but to be as observant about the community as possible, and
see how some parts help to maintain the community as a whole, and how changes
in one may contribute to changes in others. |
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The action of fund
raisingis an important aspect of planning and implementing a project,
or maintaining an organization. Also see Resource
Acquisition.
While some activists
may not like fund raising (its professionals are trained in marketing),
it is necessary and therefore as honourable as any other element of a project
or an organization.
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