Social mobilization is a process of bringing together all societal and personal influences together to raise
awareness of social issues, demand for health care, assists in the delivery of resources, services,
individual and community involvement to raise awareness of issues and different social benefits of
people certain community. In order to socially mobilize, members of community, institution and specific
group of people, organizations reach specific group of people for intentional dialogue. Social
mobilization create awareness and work for rights of many people they run social campaigns to mobilize
people and many more.
Social mobilization is a nonstop process and it is everywhere in the world. If talk about Pakistan we
see social mobilization in almost every field like NGOs, civil rights, women empowerment, developed
programs, Nation rural support program, children welfare like child labor and child marriages etc. social
accountability and learning and right to education awareness, BISP, polio program and several others
social movement programs which socially mobilize people and several communities with non-violence
and planted message.
People’s Movements in Pakistan, written by Aslam Khawaja is a groundbreaking piece of work at the
non-violent struggles of Pakistan. Despite the fact that nonviolent struggles are deeply rooted in
Pakistan but least amount of work is done by Pakistani scholars and writers. In this book Mr. Khawaja
writes and spoke on all the non-violent struggles, social movements, mobilization across the country
ranging from civil disobedience against Gen. Zia regime, freedom of press, student rights, women
empowerments and struggle for trade unions. The book reveals that all type of mobilization or
movements like freedom of press, movements of art and literature, women’s empowerment have beam
wages by Gen. Zia. Moreover it also informs that non-violent struggle have been successful across the
country and almost all the struggles achieved their desired results. Pakistan is a democratic and tolerant
society unsung heroes have devoted their lives for freedom, community and ethnicity. Being a
participant in non-violent socialist’s movements, particularly movements of trade unions and
movements against Gen. Zia regime, he has linked personal experiences and accounts of people who
exceptionally devoted their lives for others freedom and rights. Mr. Khawaja discuss various pleasant
movement across the country. His invaluable personal information about leaders and activists are
commendable.
National Rural Support Program (NRSP) is such type of support program for people who
belonged to rural areas and socially aware them for different issues and how to resolve these issues and
give them proper guidance. Social mobilization consists of organizing of communities in rural and in pre
urban areas. These communities are organized into Community Organizations (COs) which are
organizations at the neighborhood or Mohallah level. These COs consist of membership from 15
households on average. COs ordinarily carry out activities such as household level development
planning, trainings, savings and credit. At the second tier, the COs federate at the village level into a
Village Organization (VO). Membership of the VO normally consists of two nominated members from
each CO in the village. The activities of the VO are to work on development activities which run across
the village such as community infrastructure, partnerships with local government and other agencies,
and on issues which affect the entire village. At the third tier, VOs federate at the Union Council level to
form a Local Support Organization (LSO). This apex organization consists of membership from the VOs in
the entire union council and is responsible for coordinating with its membership base to construct a
development agenda for its members. It is also responsible for networking and developing linkages with
