Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna
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Name: Pablo, Aldrin Hardy R. Date: May 22, 2022

Course & Section: BIO – 1B
Reflection no.5: Social Mobilization

The topic of this week's presentation was "Social Mobilization." It was an eighteen-minute
video lecture. I learned the most significant aspects of the subject. A community is a collection of
individuals who have shared interests and live together. Because a community is defined by
shared qualities, there are various variables that link us together, including beliefs, values,
language, territory, religion, culture, and occupation. Community mobilization, I've learnt, strives
to educate, and mobilize community leaders, as well as local government agencies,
nongovernmental organizations, and cooperatives. Community mobilization helps to build
demand for interventions, enhance access to services, improve intervention efficacy and
efficiency, contribute more resources to the response, reach the most disadvantaged, and many
other things. The movie also defined a mobilizer, which I learnt to be someone who gets things
moving or acts as a catalyst. Community mobilizers are responsible for bringing people together,
building trust, facilitating conversation and decision-making, ensuring that things run well, and
assisting in the community mobilization process.

Furthermore, mobilizing the community entails involving all segments of the designated
community in a community-wide plan that includes recognizing existing community groups and
involving community service organizations. Individual and collective skills are improved because
of social mobilization, which broadens people's options and increases their range of activities.
Through social mobilization techniques, citizens' values, priorities, and agency are placed at the
center of development initiatives, and great gains can be achieved if all members of a community
engage together.