Community Engagement

• Adherence to social justice

  Fighting for equality and fairness in the treatment of human beings, distribution, and access to resources, and giving of opportunity structures and life chances that will allow people to live meaningful lives
• What adherence to social justice requires fighting against

  • Poverty
  • Unjust forms of social inequalities
  • Predatory capitalism
  • Climate change injustice
  • Occupational injustice
• Respect, protection, and fulfillment of human rights


  People should neither be deprived of their rights nor should one be allowed to violate another's rights. There must be a conscious effort to help people achieve a life of dignity. This would require anchoring the process of human development on international human rights standards and corresponding obligations established by international law
• Promotion of gender equality and equity


  Giving equal opportunity to men and women so that they may develop their personal abilities and attain fairness of treatment for both, in accordance to their respective needs
• Dimensions of poverty (using the Philippines as a case in point)

  • Cultural
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Social
  • Environmental
• Safeguard of people's participation in the development process

  Eliciting the involvement of a local population (especially the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized) in creating policies and in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development programs and projects designed to empower them
• Use of advocacy


  Helping the marginalized to conscientize the general public, government, policymaker, or people in authority, so that these power holders may be influenced to address the needs of the marginalized and attain long-lasting positive changes
• Guarantee of environment sustainability


  Ensuring the attainment of people's well-being without destroying natural resources and without depleting the ecosystem, upon which the life future generations depend on
• Poverty


  A human condition characterized by the sustained or chronic deprivation of the resources, capabilities, choices, security and power necessary for the enjoyment an adequate standard of living and other civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights
• Approaches in understanding poverty

  • Subsistence minimum
  • Capability
  • Social exclusion
  • Multidimensional
• Cultural dimension of poverty


  Explained using the Philippines as a case in point
• Economic dimension of poverty


  Explained using the Philippines as a case in point
• Political dimension of poverty


  Explained using the Philippines as a case in point
• Social dimension of poverty


  Explained using the Philippines as a case in point
• Environmental dimension of poverty


  Explained using the Philippines as a case in point
• Classism


  Systematic oppression of subordinated groups to the advantage of dominant groups on the basis of social class
• Racism


  Systematic oppression on the basis of race and ethnicity
• Sexism

  Belief and practice that one sex is innately superior to the other
• Gender bias


  Systematic oppression of any sex including men, intersexual people, and transgender people on the basis of nonconformity to the expected gender stereotypes attached to one's sex
• Ageism


  Prejudice and discrimination based on the differences in age
• Disability bias


  Unequal treatment and systematic oppression of a group of persons based on their physical or mental impairments or challenges
• Ideological bias


  Intense commitment to certain religious, political, or philosophical ideas that results to the oppressive dismissal of other ideas
• Predatory capitalism


  • Unregulated actions and strategies of corporations to make profit at whatever cause that is
  • Whenever profit-making conflicts with that of the public interest, the former is given the first priority
• Occupational injustice


  Occurs in situation when people are exploited, barred, confined, restricted, segregated, prohibited from meaningful occupations
• Climate change injustice


  A condition in which those who are least responsible for climate change bear the greatest brunt or negative impacts