copar Flashcards
COPAR stands for?
Community Organizing
Participatory Action Research
What is copar?
social development approach that
aims to transform the apathetic,
individualistic and voiceless poor into
dynamic, participatory and politically
responsive community
Years that copar may renew?
five-year renewable contract
Community Organizing
Process by which people,
services, and agencies of the
community work together
to learn about problems,
conceive these problems as
their own and be able to
work out plans and solutions
for such community problems
Community Organizing acoording to Robert Linthicum
-Process by which people organize themselves to “take charge”
-A particularly effective tool for the “poor and powerless”
Community Organizing acoording to Mike miller
Organizing does two things:
▫ To seekthe problem and
▫ To rectify the problem of imbalance
Community Organizing is a continued process of
- EDUCATING people to understand their critical
consciousness of their existing conditions - ORGANIZING people to work collectively and
efficiently to respond and take action on their
immediate and long term problems - MOBILIZING people to develop their capability and
readiness to respond and take action on their
immediate needs towards solving their long-term
problems
EDUCATING means in Community Organizing
people to understand their critical
consciousness of their existing conditions
ORGANIZING means in Community Organizing
people to work collectively and
efficiently to respond and take action on their
immediate and long term problems
mobilizing means in Community Organizing
people to develop their capability and
readiness to respond and take action on their
immediate needs towards solving their long-term
problems
What is Participatory Research
An investigation on problems and issues
concerning the life and environment of the
underprivileged in society by way of a
research collaboration with the
underprivileged, whose representatives
participate in the research process as equal
partners…that is, as researchers themselves,
rather than outsiders doing research upon
them or upon their problems.
Participatory Research
Conceived as an innovation over
the traditional research
approach.
Traditional research
considers people as objects of research
rather than active collaborators
of change and development
Traditional research
caters only to the interest of the
academes and development
agencies, veers away from
dependence of the outside
researchers
Objectives of Participatory Research
-addresses itself to the marginalized communities or sectors: the poor farmers, small fish workers, tribal groups, agriculture, and industrial workers, and poor urban settlers.
-aims to encouraged consciousness of their sufferings and develop competence for changing their situation.
- entails communal effort, it is an attempt
towards organization building, harnessing both the
human and material resources of the community in
responding to the need evoked in the PR process.
-has an educational aspect. It enhances the
knowledge of both the researcher and the subjects of research on the social reality before them
