Do you think that community mobilization may be a usefull approach for any of your community group(unemployed, youth, poor women, elders) to tap into and build upon their mobility?
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Explanation:
Social mobilization is the process of bringing together all societal and personal influences to raise awareness of and demand for health care, assist in the delivery of resources and services, and cultivate sustainable individual and community involvement.
In order to employ social mobilization, members of institutions, community partners and organizations, and others collaborate to reach specific groups of people for intentional dialogue. Social mobilization aims to facilitate change through an interdisciplinary approach.
Social mobilization and the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals were developed with input from an unprecedented global conversation involving young people, women, people living with disabilities, civil society leaders and activists. This open and inclusive process was undertaken in part because of growing recognition that ownership of Agenda 2030 by civil society is critical to its success.
To shift our planet onto a sustainable development path, SDG 17 includes an explicit target to: “encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships.”
Social mobilization is an important means to advance sustainable development policy by making it more responsive and accountable to people’s needs and demands. Social movements often emerge from a sense of shared grievance and injustice, and “make visible alternative ideas and concepts about the forms that society (and development) should take.” Influenced in part by the spread of social media and new information technology, civil society has gained momentum in advocating change on a range of topics, from climate change to women’s empowerment, from social justice to transparent governance.
The potential to harness the growing power of social mobilization for health promotion is tremendous, and much has been written about the role of civil society to advance health and well-being. Because health touches the lives of everyone, everywhere, and since health inequities stem from and contribute to other inequities, integrating health promotion into various efforts for change can push the SDGs forward. The universal and indivisible Agenda 2030 offers a powerful stimulus to form alliances across constituencies that have traditionally worked in parallel, and to expand the space for all people to participate in meaningful decision-making.