COMM-ENG

• COMMUNITY PROFILE

  •It is a comprehensive

  description of the needs of

  population that is defined, or

  defines itself, as a community

  and the resources that exist

  within the community, carried

  out with the active involvement

  of the community itself for

  developing an action plan.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Place to live

  • It includes the quality of the physical environment and the people’s attitudes to living in the community.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Social Community

  • It includes residents’ involvement in the social life of the community.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Economic Community

  • It is includes the income levels and employment prospects of local residents.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Political Community

  • It includes the systems and structures of political representation and local area management.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Personal Space

  • It is the degree of attachment that people have to the local area base on memories and life experiences.
• ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY: Part of its City

  • It is the infrastructural, economic, and social linkages between the local area and the city or district which it is part.
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  Offsetting Biases - Set an atmosphere of being relaxed.
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  A Reversal of Learning- Be open and learning from the people from your

  face-to-face encounter with them.
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  Learning Rapidly and Progressively- It involves a conscious exploration of many possibilities
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  Local Facilitating- This process includes the local people to lead or co-lead in the investigation, collection, consolidation, analysis, presentation and learning the data.
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  Self-Critical Awareness and Responsibility- It entails the process of check and balance and learning from mistakes.
• Guiding Principles as Reminders or Appreciating Community

  Sharing of Information and Ideas- Establish a space for sharing of information and ideas between the people in the community.
• REMINDERS OF APPRECIATING THE COMMUNITY

  Observe Sensibly- It is look at people’s actions, words, facial and body expressions and the environment.
• REMINDERS OF APPRECIATING THE COMMUNITY

  Listen to the Voice of the Community- It is hearing what the community people are saying and what are they not saying.
• REMINDERS OF APPRECIATING THE COMMUNITY

  Dialogue with the People- It is asking questions respectfully and carefully and share your views as well.
• REMINDERS OF APPRECIATING THE COMMUNITY

  Be Sensitive- It is always considering the communities culture, systems and environment.
• Community Profiling

  • It is the process of collecting the necessary data that should observe ethical process ad cultural standards and respect community values and principles.
  • It should be sound, accurate and relevant.
• COMMUNITY-BASED METHODS IN COLLECTING INFORMATION

  Participatory Action Research

  •It is an investigation of problems

  and issues concerning the life

  and environment of the society

  by way of research

  collaboration.

  •It is also an approach to social

  investigation with the full and

  active participation of the

  community concerned within

  the research process.
• Important things to observe the following practices:

  •Recognize and value the indigenous knowledge

  and skills of the people.

  •Suspend your own perception.

  •Equip yourself with knowledge, orientation and skills.

  •Practice the principle of participation and

  empowerment.

  •Acquire an understanding of the broader social

  context.

  •Develop an inquisitive mind and encourage the

  people to the same.
• IMPORTANT PHASES IN COLLECTING INFORMATION

  • Preparatory Phase
  • Research Phase
• Preparatory Phase: Preliminary Community Profiling

  • It aims to obtain a basic knowledge and understanding of the situation of the community which will inform and facilitate the organizers’ entry to the community.
• Preparatory Phase: Entry and Integrate into the Community

  • It aims to deepen your knowledge of the community.
• Preparatory Phase: Community Consultation

  • It aims to introduces the community organizer to the members of the community.
• Research Phase: Training of the Training Committee

  • It aims to provide the committee with the basic skills, knowledge and orientation that they need for the research.
• Research Phase: Pretesting the Data-Gathering Tools

  • It aims to identify the weaknesses of and improve the data-gathering tools.
• Research Phase: Actual Data-Gathering

  • It aims to obtain relevant data which can be used to respond to the issue or problems being studied.
• Research Phase: Consolidation of Data

  • It aims to organize the gathered data into forms which will facilitate analysis.
• Research Phase: Analysis of Data

  • It aims to identify issues and problems in the community using the findings.
• Research Phase: Preparation of the Data

  • It aims to identify creative, popular or alternative ways of presenting the research results.
• Research Phase: Community Consultation and Data Presentation

  • It aims to share the

  results of the research

  with the community.
• Spatial Information

  • It deals with space, and

  as such involves

  exercises like resources

  and social mapping,

  land-use mapping,

  transect mapping farm

  sketching and service

  mapping.
• Resource and Social Mapping

  • It entails the sketching of resources as well as households within the estate/barangay.
• Land-Use Mapping

  • It involves ascertaining land-uses of the estate such as what crops are prevalent in the farm parcels.
• Transect Mapping

  • It provides information beyond those presented in the resources and land use maps.
• Farm Mapping

  • It involves sketching the

  farm layout including

  crops planted and other

  land uses, cultivation

  practices and other

  observed features.
• Service Mapping

  -It involves collecting

  information on the internal

  and external services

  available to the community.
• Temporal Information

  -It includes the historical

  information of the

  community, which

  includes its past

  problems, trends and

  accomplishments.
• Seasonal Calendar

  -It determines the patterns

  and trends throughout the

  year in the community.
• Time Line

  -It entails general

  discussion on important

  events that happened in

  the community.