Community mobilization through indigenous grassroots organizations could be an effective strategy for increasing uptake of HIV services.
Her current research focuses on political mobilizations among indigenous peoples living in the post-Soviet states.
Women like those of La Ruta Pacifica in Colombia, whose groundbreaking direct actions join campesino, black, indigenous and urban women in massive mobilizations, or "rutas," held in locations controlled by armed groups who specifically target women.
Prior to the elections of left-leaning governments, Latin American states witnessed the organization, mobilization, and political participation of indigenous peoples demanding the recognition of new cultural and political rights.
The initiative, called the United Nations-Indigenous Peoples Partnershipp (UNIPP), is a commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and calls for its full realization through the mobilization of financial cooperation and technical assistance.
Doing so by providing agency – or the ability of a person to act and speak up in accordance with their beliefs – to marginalized communities, valuing indigenous knowledge, and encouraging community engagement could support economic and social mobilization.
The other main idea offered an indigenous process that threw off dependence on international aid and focused on the mobilization and effective use of national (human, natural, mineral and financial) resources.
"The study highlights the need to intensify community action and mobilization through legal awareness and the active engagement of men and boys, especially the elders in indigenous communities.
Community development and social mobilization of the pastoral people in the Cholistan desert can bring some economic development, as for example Indigenous Livestock Breeders Association (ILBA) of livestock keepers in Baluchistan which assists in strengthening the community.
