ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the mobilisation work of various international faith-based organisations (FBOs) to engage with local faith communities across sectors. Practice-based knowledge from the Joint Learning Initiative’s Learning Hub on Mobilisation of Local Faith Communities (MLFC) is used to present the evidence for faith group mobilisation, while explaining the ways in which international FBOs achieve this work. Summarising and synthesising the evidence as it stands so far, the chapter demonstrates commonalities and divergences on mobilisation mechanisms to give an overarching view of the mobilisation landscape. Findings show that heart, mind, and scriptural dialogues, coupled with community systems strengthening, and advocacy, are core approaches. However, international FBO mobilisation of local faith actors struggles with proving the evidence of impact, related to challenges such as ownership from LFAs and power imbalances across international-local and within local political divides.
