Community engagement

• Community engagement is the process by which individuals, organizations, or institutions work together to address common concerns.
• A strategic framework is a structured method used to define how a project or initiative supports the key objectives of stakeholders.
• Values are what an organization believes and the behaviors it agrees to embody.
• A clear vision of what you want helps you to see opportunities around your community and guides you in figuring out what you want to do.
• Community Profile is the process of developing an understanding of the people and describing the detailed picture of the target community.
• Community needs assessment is a systematic process for determining and addressing needs or gaps between current conditions or wants.
• NGO stands for Non-Governmental Organization, a membership organization formed in providing welfare and development services to the poor.
• Grass root level is one which uses the people in each district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
• Grass root movement is a group of people, typically volunteers, organizing around a particular social cause to advocate and work towards change using whatever means necessary.
• Social Structure is the rules and expectations that people develop in the community over time to help regulate and manage their interaction with one another.
• Cultural structures refer to the institutionalized patterns of ways of life that are shared, learned, developed, and accepted by people in the community.
• Social Institutions are established patterns of belief and behavior that are centered on addressing basic social needs of people in the community.
• Social Groups are two or more people in the community who regularly interact with one another.
• Status is the position or rank a person holds in relation to other members of the community.
• Role refers to the obligations or behaviors expected from an individual based on one’s status in life.
• Values and beliefs are the abstract standards in a community that define the ideal principles of what is good, just, and desirable.
• Norms refer to specific cultural expectation on how to behave in a given situation.
• Symbols and gestures are shared words, gestures, objects or signals which people in community use or signals which people in a community use to convey and develop recognizable meanings.
• Artifacts are objects or things that have special meaning for people in the community.
• Rituals refers to the established sacred or secular procedures and ceremonies that people in the community regularly perform.
• Authority is a kind of power that one has over another by virtue of an elected position or office appointment that is based on codified laws and regulations.
• Status are attainment of influence by virtue of family prominence, position held, past achievements, or personal prestige.
• Influence is a kind of power that a person possesses over another by virtue of other people’s positive perception of the former’s competence and ability.
• Expertise is attainment of influence by virtue of possessing hard-earned specific knowledge and abilities such as being a lawyer, banker, entrepreneur, accountant etc.
• Mortality refers to the demographic process relating to death, often summarized by death rates, survival rates, and life expectancy.
• Threats may include problems, issues, and concerns within your community such as crime, poverty and other aspects which may threaten your community.
• The Goal are the aims or objectives for which the action was done.
• The Resource Mobilization effort (strategy and action plan) is monitored and evaluated, specifically reporting on successes and failures, and working through lessons learned, to tailor and refocus RM initiatives to maximize success.
• Migration refers to the process of moving from one place to another, which can be internal, within the same geographical area or region, or external, from a national boundary to another.
• Building Partnership is related to other terms such as collaboration, coalition, network, task group, work group, cooperation, and others which are used to describe a wide variety of relationships and structures.
• Planning phase should ideally establish an RM strategy and action plan (for the immediate term), describing how particular resource partners will be targeted and for which resources.
• Normative Orientation is based on some social pattern, custom, all these forms are called norms of society.
• Strengths are the standout characteristics of your community in political, economic, sociocultural, technological, and environmental aspects.
• Weakness is the lack or need in the status quo, which may also include facets of your community that you think need to be addressed or improved.
• Resource Mobilization is a process where we identify the resources essential for the development, implementation, and continuation of works for achieving the organization’s mission.
• The Actor is the individual who performs the act.
• Leadership and Development is another important part of the community action, with leaders emanating from a selected group, volunteers, or individuals known as the core working group.
• Driving forces are factors that drive positive change.
• Restraining factors are factors that impede or obstacles for positive change.
• ACT phase is a step broken into five-step process: Identify, Engage, Negotiate, Manage and Report, and Communicate Results.