SOC 004

• Community Action Plan


  A means to make a community attain its goals
• Participatory Approach


  A method whereby stakeholders of an action or intervention have a voice in its conceptualization
• Offsetting Biases


  1. Set an atmosphere of being relaxed

  2. Do not rush

  3. Put the collection process in its right perspective
• A Reversal of Learning


  1. Change your perspective from being "know it all" to being "community learner"

  2. Be open and learn from the people from your face to face encounter with them
• Learning Rapidly and Progressively


  1. Conscious exploration of many possibilities in terms of methodologies and process

  2. Be flexible in your approach
• Local Facilitating


  Include the local people to lead or co lead in the investigation
• Self Critical Awareness and Responsibility


  Continuing examination of behavior among the outsider facilitators
• Sharing of Information and Ideas


  Establish a space for sharing of information and ideas between the people in the community
• Partnership


  A vibrant relationship among diverse players grounded on mutually agreed goals
• Partnership Building - Step 1: Scoping and Building


  1. Scoping

  2. Identifying

  3. Building

  4. Planning
• Partnership Building - Step 2: Managing and Maintaining


  1. Managing

  2. Resourcing

  3. Implementing
• Partnership Building - Step 3: Reviewing and Revising


  1. Measuring performances

  2. Reviewing

  3. Revising
• Partnership Building - Step 4: Sustaining Outcomes


  Institutionalizing or building appropriate structures, mechanisms and resources for the partnership
• Formal Functions of Partnership


  Partnerships are necessary to achieve common goals
• Informal Functions of Partnership


  The meeting point is the organizational aspect, primarily in partnership management
• Community Profiling


  The notion of community profiling involves active community involvement
• A profiling process fully supported by the key stakeholders in the community would result in a more comprehensive community profile
• Community Profile


  It should be sound, accurate and relevant
• Participatory Action Research (PAR)


  An approach to social investigation with the full and active participation of the community concerned within the research process
• Participatory Research


  An investigation of problems and issues concerning the life and environment of the underprivileged in society by way of research collaboration with the underprivileged
• Preliminary Community Profiling


  Obtain a basic knowledge and understanding of the situation of the community
• Entry and Integration into the Community


  1. Deepen your knowledge of the community

  2. Get to know the people

  3. Form a data gathering
• Community Consultation


  1. Introduce the community organizer to the members of the community

  2. Draw out the perception of the people regarding the issues
• Training of the Training Committee


  Provide the committee with the basic skills, knowledge and orientation that they need for the research
• Pretesting the Data Gathering Tools


  1. Identify the weaknesses and improve the data gathering tools

  2. Familiarize the committee members with the data gathering methods
• Actual Data Gathering


  Obtain relevant data which can be used to respond to the issue
• Consolidation of Data


  Organize the gathered data into forms that will facilitate analysis
• Analysis of Data


  Identify issues and problems in the community using the research findings
• Presentation of the Data


  Identify creative, popular or alternative ways of presenting the results
• Community Consultation and Data Presentation


  Share the results of the research with the community
• Participation


  • The people's involvement is crucial in all stages of the PAR process
• Awareness Raising


  • The process aids in gaining a deeper appreciation of the community and problems it faces
• Collective Action


  • The process involves the coming together of the people in the community in response to needs and issues
• Community Need Assessment


  A systematic process of investigating a population or community to assess the state of current resources such as knowledge, abilities, interests and approaches pertinent to the focus of the needs assessment such as a concern, aspiration or intention
• Community Organizing (CO)


  The form and process of building a group of people who have a common vision and goal and who engage in community action. CO is about power, it is power making. It is a process of organizing, consolidating, developing and sustaining the forces of the people, particularly those with less voice, fewer resources and fewer opportunities
• Steps in Community Organizing

  1. Entry in the community

  2. Integration with the people

  3. Community study/situation analysis

  4. Identifying and developing potential community leaders

  5. Core group formation

  6. Setting up the organization

  7. Strengthening the organization
• gathering basic information about the political, economic, cultural and ecological conditions in the area. 


  ENTRY IN THE COMMUNITY
• this is the most difficult stage of the process.

  INTEGRATION WITH THE PEOPLE
• review the preliminary data that the community organizers gathered.

  COMMUNITY STUDY/SITUATION ANALYSIS
• observes and spots potential community leaders, those with a deep concern for the people and a good grasp of the community's problems.

  IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING POTENTIAL COMMUNITY LEADERS