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Faith, empowerment, church and community mobilisation advocacy: insights from Tearfund’s partner in Uganda

Date added:March 29, 2017

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Tearfund, a Christian faith-based international non-governmental organisation, has for 15 years  supported local churches to mobilise communities through a process called Church and Community Mobilisation (CCM). The CCM advocacy pilot project in Uganda led to improvements in service delivery.

In this practice paper, Tearfund  and Making All Voices Count staff discuss recent research that examines the role of local churches, CCM and CCM advocacy in fostering transparency, citizen empowerment, inclusion and government responsiveness.

The key themes they examine are

  • social capital and the distinctive nature of faith-based mobilisation
  • faith and empowerment, both individual and collective
  • community mobilisation, strategic advocacy and shifting the power dynamics between local-level government officials and citizens
  • scaling up local-level accountability successes to the national level.
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Authors Ciana-Marie Pegus,  Charlotte Flowers,  Joanna Watson,  Sarah Onduko,  Lucie Woolley, 

Publication type Practice paper 

Publication year2017

Page length19 pages

Keywordschurch and community mobilisation, faith-based mobilisation

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Theme Citizen engagement and voice  Civil society advocacy  Hard-to-reach citizens  Inclusive governance 

Country Uganda 

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