Who has to be mobilized and by who? Why do we need him/her? Where and when should the mobilised members meet? How to mobilise the community members? (Mobilisation strategy –shouting, door-todoor, pamphlets distribution etc.) What distinct roles do you expect the persons to play? Who else need to be mobilized? ii) Community Mobilization Process Peace Clubs can follow the following steps when carrying out a community mobilisation process. Sensitization – raise awareness to key community members and local authorities about your initiative. This improves buy in or support while reducing potential resistance, misinterpretation, and harassment. Raising awareness of your initiative can be done through various activities such as Sports Tournaments, Cleanliness Competitions, Drama, Distributing fliers at social gatherings, small nhimbes, introducing your agenda at social gatherings e.g. Bar Talks, gardens. Issues and Stakeholder Mapping - This stage has got three basic phases. Firstly, figure out the actual conflict issues affecting your community (what is the problem). Secondly, identify possible solutions to the identified conflict problems (how can we address the problem). Thirdly, ask about key people who can be involved in the activity or in addressing the identified problem. Engagement –this stage involve communicating with the identified stakeholders and community members. It is important to discuss and agree on who will contact the identified persons. Individuals should be tasked to engage key stakeholders depending on their positions, capacity to engage or even relationships in a community. c) Community Early Warning; Community Early Warning is a major element of disaster risk reduction within communities. Such risks and disasters include floods, hunger, veldfires, violence, and conflicts. Early warning prevents loss of life and it reduces the economic and material impact of disasters. Conflict prevention requires careful monitoring of indicators of rising tensions and taking measures to ease them. Therefore, HZT sees community participation in early warning activities as a positive step towards conflict prevention and peaceful relations building. The process of early warning involves collecting data, analysing the symptoms of conflicts and transmitting information with recommendations to targeted recipients. This means Peace Clubs must act as early warning agents by timely reporting any possible sources of violence and conflict to prevent them before they occur. d) Peace Club Peacebuilding Progress Tracking (M&E Basics) Peace Clubs should be able to track their achievements over time to see if they are achieving what they have planned at every point. The objective of tracking the Peace Club’s 8 ©Heal Zim 2016

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