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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. |
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(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. |
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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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| The
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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| These
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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| When
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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| The
"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. |
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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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