NSTP 2 Lecture 1
NSTP 2 Lecture 1
TRAINING PROGRAM 2
Introduction
Ms. Baby-Lyn D. Ravago
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
What is National Service Training Program 2?
The National Service Training Program 2 complements the knowledge learned
from NSTP 1.
The topic shall provide ways for students to be involved in various community
projects and are expected to undergo community participation where they
can engage themselves in the implementation of the community projects.
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
A. Definition
1. A planned process enlisting the support and active
involvement of all sectors within a society that can play a role
in
a. Achieving an agreed social objective
b. Converging the interest and actions of institutions, groups,
and communities towards an objectivity thereby:
1. Mobilizing human and material resources to reach it
2. Rooting it in society’s and in community’s conscience to
ensure sustainability.
2. The process of generating and
sustaining the active and coordinated
participation of all sectors of various
levels to facilitate the improvement of the
situation of children, women and other
vulnerable groups.
B. ELEMENTS AND PROCESSES OF SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
1. ADVOCACY
Elements which is focused on various actors who could create the positive
environment for program or service delivery.
3. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Individuals and community groups are able to get a sense of what they can
do themselves to improve their situation.
4. CAPACITY BUILDING
Social Mobilization can only be sustained if the network of advocates and mobilizers are
continually expanded through capacity building.
Capacity Building (People)
Institutional Development (Organization)
Seeks to improve knowledge, skills, and attitude of service providers as well as beneficiaries
in order for them to be able to do their jobs and better participate actively in the dynamic
process of change.