Before disasters, it is expected to promote disaster preparedness, prevention, and mitigation mainly through information, awareness-raising, sensitization, and education and other activities that would promote a culture of safety and readiness in the community hence the establishment of contingency plans during the predisaster phase (Bang 2013).
Awareness raising and sensitization of church leaders and groups are also important in the context of Manipur and Nagaland.
As was found in programs implemented in Rwanda, Peru, and Australia, delineated roles and responsibilities for all implementing partners and preparing communities in advance through awareness raising and sensitization were critical aspects to the feasibility of HPV vaccine delivery [ 7, 17, 19].
Moreover, there is evidence that ambient PM can act as an adjuvant for allergic sensitization, which raises the possibility that long-term PM exposure may lead to increased prevalence of asthma.
The study team did not perform community sensitization to raise awareness of the new iCCM models that were being evaluated in the CMS catchment area before study initiation.
The development of such mechanisms requires collaboration among the various stakeholders, sensitization, education, and raising the awareness and political will of decision-makers.
Till date, UNICEF supported HIV sensitization and awareness raising interventions have benefited approximately 1 million adolescents and youth.
Governments need to invest in awareness raising campaigns as well as sensitization and capacity building activities to build a culture of zero tolerance for violence against children.
Piot's main focus was advocacy, community mobilization, political sensitization and fund-raising, and he found success.
A study by Hollerbach et al.86 also raises the possibility that central sensitization can occur in the cortical regions of the brain.
