The Core Values Of Community Action Initiatives Flashcards
is generally a network of individuals and partner organizations dedicated to improve the health and welfare of a community. It seeks to deal with and reduce the effect of social problems, in order to improve peoples’ quality of life.
community initiative
✓ These are principles or beliefs that a person or organization views as being of central importance. -Oxford Dictionary
✓ These are the “fundamental beliefs of a person or organization. These are guiding principles dictate the behavior and can help people understand the difference between right and wrong.”
CORE VALUES
It is defined as “the rights inherent to all human beings whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language or any other status.” -Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),
HUMAN RIGHTS
Upon birth and growing up, citizenship and other rights and entitlements are already alongside to the child, such as the right to a name and nationality, the right to health and nutrition, the right to shelter, the right to education and the likes.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Different types of HUMAN RIGHTS
Natural Rights
Civil Rights
Political Rights
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Natural Rights
privacy, property, religion, expression, contract and movement.
- Civil Rights
assembly, petition, suffrage, direct and indirect participation, self- determination, self-government and election to public office
- Political Rights
It is the fair access to opportunities, like education, livelihood and resources. It involves participation in cultural and political practices in the community like the social justice, but social equity emphasizes more on institutions and how people can access it, especially those who need it most. It also refers to standards set applied to improve the participation of a certain classes or sectors of people in the community.
SOCIAL EQUITY
✔ Persons With Disability (PWDs) who do have the same and equal rights to ordinary people but are also 12 protected and given the privilege to achieve social equity.
✔ Other marginalized groups sectors or groups are women, children, youth, indigenous, LGBTQ+ community, and the likes who are considered weak and in need of help.
SOCIAL EQUITY
It is the humanization of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the state so that justice may at least be approximated. It is anchored heavily on the idea that justice is based on basic human rights and each individual must have an opportunity to exercise these rights.
-President Jose P. Laurel
SOCIAL EQUITY
It is “the equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of women and men and girls and boys.” -United Nations Entity Gender Equality Empowerment of women, for and
GENDER EQUALITY
✔ Men may often have better opportunities, freedom and social favor compared to women.
✓ Most of the positions, socially and politically were being occupied mostly by men.
✔ Men may have more weight in marriages or other direct or indirect relationships.
GENDER EQUALITY
Its objective is to engage the marginalized group in programs and activities that will benefit them. It must have advocacies to enable the marginalized groups to promote their rights. The more participation from the community, the higher is the possible success and sustainability of the programs and projects.
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
It is in our knowledge that different members of the community have their own and distinct needs, but if all or most of its members will unite and participate for a certain goal, there will be less discord and misunderstanding, then most likely, the program and activities, as well as the participation of the groups in the community, will succeed, and answering the needs of a certain group or sector would be easier.
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
