COPAR Flashcards
What is COPAR?
community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) is a community development approach that:
Allows the community to systematically analyze the situation (research),
Plan solutions and implement projects/programs (action),
Utilizes the process of community organizing to improve conditions.
What are the basic values in Community Organizing?
Human Rights
Social Justice
Social Responsibility
What are the core principles of Community Organizing?
People-centered
Participative
Democratic
Developmental
Process-oriented
What are the goals of Community Organizing?
- People Empowerment
- Building People’s Organizations
- Improved Quality of Life
What is Participatory Action Research (PAR)?
PAR is an approach to research that:
Promotes change among participants,
Includes members of the community as partners in all phases (design, data collection, analysis, dissemination),
Leads to actionable solutions to improve conditions.
What are the objectives of COPAR?
- Organize people
- Mobilize people
- Work with people
- Educate people
- Develop knowledge, attitude, and skills
What are the goals of the COPAR process?
Sustained community empowerment
Capacity to be aware and solve their own problems
How can COPAR goals be achieved?
Educating people to understand and critically analyze their condition
Organizing people to work collectively on their problems
Mobilizing people to develop their capability and take action
Allows the community to systematically analyze the situation (research),
COPAR
a process consists of steps or activities that instill and reinforce the people’s self-confidence on their own collective strength and capabilities
Community Organizing
is a continuous process of educating the community to develop its capacity to assess and analyze the situation (which involves the process of conscious raising), plan and implement interventions mobilization), and evaluate them.
Community Organizing
is an approach to research that aims at promoting change among the participants. Members of the group being studied participate as partners in all phases of the research, including design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination (Brown et al., 2008).
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