CHN

• Community development results from the process of community organizing, which is a "process and an end" in itself.
• Community development is an adjunct to community organizing, continuing and related process that seeks to empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need to advocate on their own behalf, improve their lives and provide communities with access to resources.
• Concrete, attainable goals and objectives are goals and objectives of the collaborative group that are clear to all partners and can realistically be attained.
• Collaboration partners have the same vision, with clearly agreed upon mission, objectives and strategy.
• Members establish personal connections, producing a better, more informed and cohesive group working on a common project.
• The individual who convenes the collaborative group has organizing skills and carries out the role with fairness.
• The collaborative group has an adequate and consistent financial base to support its operations.
• Partnership for Community Health Development (PCHD) is a strategy adopted by the Department of Health in 1990, based on the 1987 Constitutional provision that recognizes the importance of "community-based" groups, apart from the NGOs, in the promotion of the welfare of the nation.
• PCHD strategies include partnership-building at the provincial, municipal and barangay levels to support community-based efforts and initiatives of POs and the community as a whole.
• PCHD aims to build up the capacities of LGUs, DOH, NGOs and POs for their various roles in the partnership.
• PCHD aims to enable communities to mobilize their resources and produce sustainable and justly distributed improvements in their quality of life.
• PCHD provides grants or additional resources for priority communities to pursue health development projects that are locally identified and responsive or unique to community needs and problems.
• The PCHD initiative provided the impetus for the development of policy on community participation and of the framework and processes for collaboration between government, NGOs in addressing the health needs in un-served urban and rural areas.
• Community-based as it is applied in a concerted way not on a sectoral manner.
• Community health projects must have a chief mobilizer from government, NGO or PO which steers various groups, especially the community residents or espouse the value of participatory approach.
• Intersectoral structures that extend technical assistance or financial support if the people’s organizations cannot undertake the activities on their own are a feature of community health projects.
• Visioning/planning exercise that draws active participation of the members is a feature of community health projects.
• Health activities in community health projects must be a starting point that eventually lead to non-health activities such as income generating projects and sustainability through mobilization of resources especially financing.
• Community health development must be a learning process, following action-reflection-action cycle (ARA).
• Successful collaboration in health requires agreeing on goals and expectations at the outset, maintaining a structured equal partnership, using an independent community organizer, sharing expertise and resources across community organizations and researches, educating the community about research goals and purposes, and developing financial support for community programs.
• Factors that may lead to successful collaboration include adaptability, openness to frequent communication, establishing formal and informal communication links, and having a common direction.
• Social capital is characterized by the existence of community networks, civic engagements, local identity, norms of trust and reciprocal help and support.
• Education makes important contributions to the health status of populations as it supplies not only information but also the confidence and capabilities to deal with life and environmental problems as well as self-care.
• Intersectoral Collaboration includes sustainable partnerships that combine inter-organizational cooperative working alliances and activities by parts of the health sector with other sectors that involve joint planning on a health related issue.
• Social Capital is a key indicator of the building of healthy communities through collective and mutually beneficial interaction and accomplishments.
• Primary Health Care is an approach to community development.
• Partnership Building involves fostering joint venture, alliance or union between people in the community and various stakeholders like non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units (LGUs), civil society groups and state institutions.
• The goals of Community Development include Capacity Building, Building health infrastructure to deliver health promotion programs, Building partnerships and organizational environments so that programs and health gains are sustained, and Building program-solving capability.
• Community health development must develop local leadership and expertise on program management based on shared responsibility and gender fairness at the barangay level.
• Community health development must develop inter-agency coordination and linkages at the barangay and municipal level.
• Community health development must be able to influence the existing barangay development plan.
• Community health development must be sustainable in terms of resource access generation, utilization and management and the use of participatory community processes.
• Community health development must be gender-oriented and environment friendly.
• Community health development should address deeper issues of justice and equity.
• Community health development should naturally move beyond one-issue, one-project, one-barangay perspective into broader sectoral concerns, multi-issue, inter-barangay, inter-municipal/provincial networks and alliances.
• Community health development should lead towards the emergence of a strong, empowered and viable people’s organization that pursues a common goal.
• Methods and activities in community development include self-help work, outreach, local action groups, lobbying, peer work, festivals and events, information, advocacy, group work, network building, and pump priming initiatives of the community with small grants.
• Community development theory is a process designed to create conditions of economic and social progress for the whole community with its active participation and the fullest possible reliance on the community’s initiative.