COPAR

• Father of CHN organizing


  Saul Alinsky
• COPAR


  Community Organizing Participatory Action Research
• Timeframe of COPAR


  5 years
• Goals of COPAR

  • Self reliance
  • Active participation
  • Mobilization
  • Empowerment
• Principles of COPAR

  • Participation
  • Oppressed and exploited sector
  • With COPAR, it should lead to self
  • Empowerment
  • Remember that COPAR should be best interest of the poorest sector of the community
• Community Organizing Process

  • Community Analysis
  • Design and Initiation
  • Implementation
  • Program maintenance and consolidation
  • Dissemination and Reassessment
• 4 methods in COPAR

  • Action-Reflection-Action-Session
  • Consciousness raising
  • participatory and mass based
  • group centered
• COPAR PHASES (Health Promotion Model)

  • Preparator phase
  • Community organizing and capability building
  • Education
  • Collaboration phase
  • Phase out
• Methods of data selection

  • Survey
  • Interview
  • Recorded review
  • Census
  • Observation (Ocular survey)
• Other name of Ocular survey

  Wind shield survey
• 2 types of census

  • De fACto
  • De juRE
• #of people on the geographical location within a specific period of time

  De fACto
• individuals are recorded by their place of residence

  De juRE
• Most practical method of data selection


  Surveys
• Most ideal type of data selection

  Census
• Called as "Most crucial phase"


  Entry phase
• Criteria for potential leader

  • Low profile
  • Education at least basic primary education
  • Approached respected by other formal and informal sector
  • Develops a good communication skill
  • Serves willfully