Community mobilization

Interventions to encourage community, individuals, groups (including in schools), or organizations to plan, carry out, and evaluate activities on a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other needs. Community mobilization can often also involve use of the following activities:

-participatory learning and action cycles (e.g. women’s groups)

-community dialogue and working with community leaders, religious leaders, health service providers, Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA

-participatory research and assessment

-rapid rural appraisal

-strength based strategies such as positive deviance approaches

-community advocacy activities

-community organized transport schemes

-engaging school children as agents of change

Systematic review of parenting and education programs for early child development (Engle et al., 2011)

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Strategies to increase demand for child vaccinations (Johri et al., 2015)

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Inteventions to improve childhood immunization coverage (Mureed et al., 2015)

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Protocol - handwashing and sanitation behaviour change interventions in low-and-middle income countries (De Buck et al, 2016)

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Gender-integrated interventions for reproductive and maternal-child health (Kraft et al., 2014)

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Interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality (Tanner et al., 2013)

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Nutrition interventions for reducing mortality and morbidity in pregnant and lactating women and women of reproductive age: (Middleton et al., 2013)

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Strategies to increase reproductive, maternal and child health in difficult to access mountainous locations (Byrne et al., 2014)

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Health systems and policy for behavior and social change to enhance child survival and development (Velez et al., 2014)

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Ongoing - cluster-randomised controlled trial integrating a community-based water, sanitation and hygiene programme, with mass distribution of albendazole to reduce intestinal parasites in Timor-Leste (Nery et al., 2015)

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