Community Organizing Flashcards
Community Organizing is critical in achieving values of
Self-reliance and self-awareness
Basic Values of CO
Human rights, social justice, social responsibility
Creates social movement by creating a base of concerned people
Community organizer
Process by which people, health services, and agencies of communities are brought together by common self interest
Community Organization
An approach to development where poverty is regarded as God given, destined. This aims to ameliorate poverty on a personal level
Welfare
An approach to development where poverty is due to lack of education
Modernization
An approach to development where poverty is due to historical past and is maintained by oppressive structure of the society; People should be empowered and transformed to be better versions of themselves
Transformatory/Participatory
Importance of Community Organizing
Maximize community participation
Alternative in situations
Actively involve people
Self-reliance and Self-awareness
Improve effectiveness of programs
Mobilize community resources
Emphasizing CO in PHC
Work together to solve problem
Internal organizational consolidation as pre-requisite to external expansion
Social movement first before technical
Health reforms
Benefits of Community Organization
Learn common problems
Identify these problems as own
Plan the kind of action
Act on this basis