(2) Community Organizing

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A social group of people interacting with each other, determined by geographic boundaries, living together to attain certain and common goals and sharing the same interest

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Community

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A long-term social development approach where the people affected by an issue are supported in identifying problems and taking actions to achieve solutions through advocacy and mobilization of capabilities and resources

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Community organizing

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Importance of CO:

It provides the people with an ___ to get involved and identify the ___ ___ ___ of their community

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opportunity
common health problems

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Importance of CO:

It guides the community in ___ towards ___

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decision-making
self-reliance

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Importance of CO:

It guides people in analyzing the ___ and ___ of every possible solution offered by them

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strengths
weaknesses

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A broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities

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Community development

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Seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing these groups with the skills they need to affect change in their own communities

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Community development

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T/F: skills in community development are often concentrated around building political power through the formation of small social groups working for different agenda

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F (big social groups; common agenda)

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Approaches to CD:

Assumes that poverty is God-given; destined

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Welfare approach

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Approaches to CD:

Believes that bad luck, natural disasters and certain circumstances that are beyond the control of people cause poverty

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Welfare approach

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Approaches to CD:

Also referred to as the “Project development approach”

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Modernization approach

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Approaches to CD:

Assumes that development consists of abandoning the traditional methods of doing things and must adopt the technology of industrial countries

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Modernization approach

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Approaches to CD:

Believes that poverty is due to lack of education, lack of resources such as capital and technology

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Modernization approach

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Approaches to CD:

The process of empowering/transforming the poor and the oppressed sector of society so that they can pursue a more just and humane society

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Transformatory/Participatory approach

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Approaches to CD:

Assumes that poverty is not God given rather it is rooted in the historical past and is maintained by oppressive structures in society

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Transformatory/Participatory approach

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Approaches to CD:

Believes that poverty is caused by the prevailing, exploitative, oppressive, dominative, and other unjust structures

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Transformatory/Participatory approach

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Approaches to CD:

This approach serves as the basis for COPAR

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Transformtory/Participatory approach

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COPAR means

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Community Organizing Participatory Action Research

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A continuous and dynamic process of educating the people to understand and develop their critical awareness of their existing condition by providing them skills or capability training

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COPAR

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Guiding principles of COPAR (2):

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People are open to change, has the capacity to change, and is able to bring about change

Community organizing should be based on the interest of the poorest sectors of society and should lead to a self-reliant community and society

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Steps in CO:

The initial phase of the organizing process where the community organizer looks for communities to serve/help

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Pre-entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Considered the simplest phase in terms of actual outputs, activities, and strategies and time spent for it

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Pre-entry phase

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Steps in CO:
Selection of site

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Pre-entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Community

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Pre-entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Identifying & establishing linkage with community leaders

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Pre-entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Sometimes called the “social preparation phase” as to the activities done here includes the sensitization of the people on the critical events in their life, innovating them to share their dreams and ideas on how to manage their concerns and eventually mobilizing them to take collective action on these

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Entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Signals the actual entry of the community worker/organizer into the community

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Entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Courtesy call with the local leaders and others GOs & NGOs

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Entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Community diagnosis (problem ID and prioritization)

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Entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Regular meetings with various stakeholders for advocacy and consultation

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Entry phase

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Steps in CO:

Entails the formation of more formal structures and the inclusion of more formal procedures of planning, implementation, and evaluation of community-wide activities

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Where the organized leaders or groups are being given trainings to develop their skills and in managing their own concerns/programs

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Action plan preparation and consultation

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Implementation

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Monitoring and evaluation

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Core group formation and training

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Organization building phase

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Steps in CO:

Occurs when the community organization has already been established and the community members are already actively participating in community-wide undertakings

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Sustenance and strengthening phase

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Steps in CO:

The different communities setup in the organization building phase are already expected to be functioning by way of planning, implementing, and evaluating their own programs with the overall guidance from the community-wide organization

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Sustenance and strengthening phase

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Steps in CO:

Turn over of project/ Disengagement plan

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Sustenance and strengthening phase

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Steps in CO:

Networking/ Intersectoral collaboration

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Sustenance and strengthening phase