QUIZ

• any activity that increases understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services

  Community Action
• about putting communities at the heart of their local services which involves helping community to share knowledge, skills and ideas.

  Community ACTION
• involves different core values and principles which include human rights, Social equality, gender equality and participatory development

  Community Action
• defined as supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, diginity and self-development.

  HUMAN RIGHTS
• Concerned with issues both areas of civil and political rights and economic, social, and cultural rights founded and internationally accepted human rights are universal and inalienable.

  HUMAN RIGHTS
• rights that belong to everyone regardless of their circumstances. they cannot be taken away from you

  HUMAN RIGHTS
• defined as equality and fairness in terms of the treatment of human beings, access to resources, and life chances.

  SOCIAL EQUALITY
• not only about obtaining rights and protecting rights but also about their responsibilities and their consequences

  SOCIAL EQUALITY
• reflects ideas of "fairness" and "justness"

  SOCIAL EQUALITY
• Also known as sexual equality or equality of sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision making and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.

  GENDER EQUALITY
• elicits the involvement of the local population in creating policies in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development programs and projects that are designed to empower and help people make effective choices. it includes the involvement of people in studying their situation and in deciding on the distribution of resources to ensure equitable sharing.

  PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
• initiatives must be guided by principles and core values of social justice, human rights, gender equality, and participatory development. this actions have a purpose which is to enable people to work in solidarity in addressing social problems.

  COMMUNITY ACTION
• refers to the process by which people gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives.

  Empowerment
• individuals can make choices that can produced the desired changes in their social, economic, and political lives.

  EMPOWERMENT
• furthermore, empowerment encompasses 1. having the ability to make one's decision 2. being free, independent.

  WHO 2010
• Community empowerment strategies are carried out by realizing the four elements of community empowerment:

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  Inclusion and participation

  access to information

  the capacity of local organizations, and the professionalism of empowering actors.
• strategic approach to influencing outcomes and driving change in behalf of your community.

  ADVOCACY
• it involves representing your community rights and needs to the level of government best able to respond.

  ADVOCACY
• those individuals that have a vested interest in the development and redevelopment of neighborhood or community.

  ADVOCACY
• are willing to participate in block clubs, neighborhood planning activities as well as religious and social activities.

  ADVOCACY
• THREE TYPES OF ADVOCACIES:

  SYSTEMATIC ADVOCACY

  INDIVIDUAL ADVOCACY

  SELF-ADVOCACY
• 1. Develop digital inclusion projects at a community level.
  2. deliver and employments and skills initiatives benefiting getaways communities
  3. maximize volunteering opportunities for local people
  4. develop neighborhood-based projects to meet local needs 


  STRATEGIES OF EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY
• widespread as one established community action initiatives to achieve self-reliant community and sustainable growth and development across the political spectrum. this approach aims to empower individuals by providing equal and appropriate opportunities and allowing them to take part in the development process.

  PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
• Concept of participatory development is essential, particularly in the philippines setting, considering that we are a developing country. hence the need for the locals especially the marginalized to join in the development process is vital to improve their quality of life. furthermore participatory, once achieved, could be rebound to a more meaningful partnership from the higher hierarchy down to grass root level.
• will help you understand the purpose of each phase and its implication to the society such as partnership and how it promotes development to the community as a whole

  METHODOLOGIES AND APPROACHES IN COMMUNITY ACTION
• process of identifying and locating different actors and players within a community who share a common interest, purpose and goals.

  ESTABLISHING LINKS AND PARTNERSHIP BUILDING WITH LOCAL GROUPS
• social research method which involves building up a picture of the nature, needs and resources of a locality or community.

  COMMUNITY PROFILING
• used to asses the resources or skills that exist among the people or communities with which a project plans to work

  NEEDS AND RESOURCES ASSESMENT
• process by which a community undertakes to reach a given socio-economic goal by consciously diagnosing its problems and charting a course of action to resolve those problems.

  PARTICIPATORY ACTION PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• Core values and principles of community actions initiative

  HUMAN RIGHTS

  SOCIAL EQUALITY

  GENDER EQUALITY

  PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT