S1_L3_L4_CBR - Community organising Flashcards
grassroots practice where people challenge existing power structures
Community organizing
People work collectively to address systemic injustices
Community organizing
Members build solidarity, reclaim agency & influence social change through what?
Collective action
Community organizing revolves around the people’s what? (3)
Lives, experiences, aspirations
T/F: Community organizing is people-centered
T
T/F: Comm. organizing is people-centered & geared towards
continuing capability building, group reliance, and empowerment
F, SELF-RELIANCE
Who is the first person to define community organizing?
Manalili
T/F: Community organizing is an unconscious undertaking & not smth that is done to them
F, conscious undertaking
essential element for achieving transformative & sustainable change in CBR
community organizing
Ability of one individual or group to wield control over another
power over
used to spark change that needs to happen
power over
Ability of a group to act together in view of collective outcomes or goals
power with
Ability of the actor to carry out certain specific outcomes themselves
power to
Principles of Community Organizing (4)
- Community organising involves consciousness-raising through experiential learning
- ” is participatory and mass-based
- ” is based on democratic leadership
- Community organization must work towards people’s empowerment so that they may liberate themselves from their oppression
MODELS USED IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
locality development model
social planning
social action