Summary

In this study session, you have learned that:

1. Implementation is the act of converting your planned health-related activities into action, according to your plan of work. Implementation is not a one-off activity, but should be continually reviewed.
2. Before the implementation of your plan, there are things that you should consider. These things include organising the community, training the labour force, and identifying and mobilising the available resources.
3. Community organising is the process of developing individual and community capacity, and empowering them for collective action. In community organising, it should be possible to develop a network of relationships among people in order to create a favourable environment to work together.
4. Community organisation is most often successful if you organise people according to the location, workplace or common characteristics of the participants, or their interest in the issue being addressed.
5. Sometimes you may find ready-made or organised community groups. This is a good opportunity for health educators, and you should work with such groups whenever this is possible.
6. Once you have organised the community, you should give them training to equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to include them in health education activities.
7. One big resource you have in your community is your people. Therefore, you should mobilise and involve as many local people as possible in all your planned health education activities.