CESC

• Human Rights


  The supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, dignity, and self-development, concerned with civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights
• Human rights are universal and inalienable. They belong to everyone, regardless of their circumstances, and cannot be taken away from you by anybody.
• Examples of human rights


  • Right to life
  • Right to Liberty
  • Right to know
  • Right to work and education
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
• Social Equality


  Equity and fairness in terms of the treatment of human beings, access to resources, and life chances. It is about obtaining rights, protecting rights, and responsibilities and their consequences.
• Examples of social equality


  • Fair distribution of public service
  • Non-discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment applications, contrast, dismissals, compensations, and conditions
• Gender Equality


  The state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender. It is having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
• Example of gender equality


  • When giving vitamin supplements, women are given more iron and folic supplements than men, since the former need such supplements more due to their menstrual cycles and childbearing capacity.
• Participatory Development


  Elicits the involvement of the local population in creating policies and in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development programs and projects that are designed to empower and help people make effective choices.
• Examples of participatory development


  • Community involvement in social issues that affect the community
  • Knowing your interest and agenda as a community
• Advocacy


  A strategic approach to influencing outcomes and driving change on behalf of your community, by representing your community's rights and needs to the level of government best able to respond.
• Types of advocacy


  • Systematic advocacy
  • Individual advocacy
  • Self-advocacy
• Systems advocacy


  Focuses on an effort that shall change policies at the local, national, or international levels so that lasting changes will be brought to the lives of groups or individuals who share similar problems.
• Individual advocacy


  Focuses on efforts that will change the situation of an individual and protect his or her rights.
• Self-advocacy


  Focuses on strengthening an individual's ability to communicate with other people, and at the same time persuading and convincing the individual to address his or her own needs and rights.
• What is common among these advocacies is their goal of changing the status quo by targeting decision-makers, leaders, or policymakers who can affect positive change.
• Participatory development


  Seeks to engage local populations in development projects to strengthen their influence over decisions and resources, empowering groups to negotiate with institutions, improving efficiency and sustainability of programs, and checking government power.
• Examples of participatory development


  • Participatory planning at village, municipal and provincial levels in the Philippines built social capital and empowered communities.
• Community-Action Initiatives


  An effort to involve residents, local groups and other organizations in pursuing common goals as guided by the core values and principles of community engagement, solidarity, and citizenship.
• Putting the people together makes a community prosper because we allow them in the creation, designing, and implementing varied programs and activities for the benefit of all.
• Principles and Core Values of Community Actions and Initiatives


  • Human Rights
  • Social Justice
  • Empowerment and Advocacy
  • Gender Equality
  • Participatory Development
• Human Rights


  Inherent in all human beings, whatever their nationality, place of residence, sex, religion, language or any status. All humans are equally entitled to human rights without discrimination.
• Social Justice


  The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities, with the goal of the full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs.
• Empowerment and Advocacy


  Gaining power and control over decisions and resources that determine the quality of life.
• Gender Equality


  Equal treatment of men and women, with equal opportunities in life, elimination of discrimination based on gender, and equal pay for equal work.
• Participatory Development


  Empowering individuals by providing equal and appropriate opportunities and allowing them to take part in the development process.
• Phases of Community Actions


  • Establishing links and partnership building with local groups
  • Community Profiling
  • Needs and Resources Assessment
  • Participatory Action planning and leadership development
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Plan Implementation
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
• Community Profiling


  A social research method which involves building up a picture of the nature, needs and resources of a locality or community.
• Needs and Resources Assessment


  Used to assess the resources or skills that exist among the people or communities with which a project plans to work.
• Participatory Action planning and leadership development


  A 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.
• Resource Mobilization


  The process of getting resources from the resource provider, using different mechanisms, to implement an organization's predetermined goals.
• Plan Implementation


  Designed to document, in detail, the critical steps necessary to put your solutions into practice.
• Monitoring and Evaluation


  Used to assess the performance of projects, institutions and programmes set up by governments, international organizations and NGOs.
• Community action


  Any activity that increases the understanding, engagement, and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of local services, sometimes described as 'social action' or community engagement.
• Community action plan


  A road map for implementing community change by identifying and specifying what will be done, who will do it, and how it will be done.
• Objectives of community action


  • Building community and social capacity
  • Community resilience
  • Prevention
  • Maintaining and creating wealth
• Participatory approach


  One in which everyone who has a stake in the intervention has a voice, either in person or by representation, where everyone's participation is welcomed and respected, and the process is not dominated by any individual or group, or by a single point of view.
• Levels of participation


  • Information
  • Consultation
  • Deciding together
  • Acting together
  • Supporting independent community initiatives
• Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA)


  Designed to collect first-hand data from the local people about their perceptions of their local environments and living conditions in rural areas.
• Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRA)


  Use similar methods and tools as RRA, but the most important principle in PRA was the sharing of results of analysis, decisions, and planning efforts among the community members by an open and public presentation during meetings.
• Participatory and Integrated Development (PID)


  To overcome the casual application of participatory methods here and there, PID seeks to include workshops and their results in a broader, long-term frame of institutionalized activities.