Box 1: Comprehensive community mobilisation is ... .
. Working with the whole community / women and men, young people, and
children
. Seeking to encourage individuals as well as the community to embark on a
process of change
. Using multiple strategies over time to build a critical mass of individuals
supportive of women’s rights
. Supporting people to face the fact that violence isn’t something ‘out there’ that
‘happens to other people’: it is something we all grapple with in our relationships
. Inspiring and creating activism among a cross section of community members
Multi-faceted
Community mobilisation is not ...
. Only raising awareness
. Only capacity building
. Working with one sector, group, sex
. Ad hoc or sporadic
. A series of one-off activities
. Pointing fingers, blaming, assigning fault
. Top down programme implementation by an NGO to a community
. Neat and completed within short timeframes
. Message-based