Globally, community engagement is an integral part of most public
health programs and the social mobilization (SM) intervention of India’s polio eradication program is one such example that contributed to eliminating polio from the
country. CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP), a partner of Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) SM
Network executed its activities through a network of social mobilizers called Community Mobilization Coordinators (CMCs).
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