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community organizing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| As a process, consist of steps or activities that instill and reinforce the people’s self-confidence on their own collective strengths and capabilities | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING |
| It is the development of the community’s collective capacities to solve its own problems and aspire for development through its own efforts | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING |
| a continuous process of educating the community | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING |
| improved access to resources (including health resources) that will enable the people to improve their standard of living and overall quality of life. | COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT |
| END GOAL of COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | • Community development • participation of the basic sector or stakeholders |
| 3 BASIC VALUES | 1. Human rights 2. Social justice 3. Social responsibility |
| based on the worth and dignity inherent to all human being so the right to life, the right to development as persons, and as a community, the freedom to make decisions for oneself | Human rights |
| entails fairness in the distribution of resources to satisfy basic needs and to maintain dignity as human beings | Social justice |
| an offshoot of the ethical principle of solidarity, which points to people being part of one community and is reflected in concern of one another | Social responsibility |
| 4 essential goals of social justice | Human rights, access, participation and equity |
| the people are the means and ends of development and community empowerment is the process and the outcome | Community Organizing is PEOPLE-CENTERED |
| The participation of the community in the entire process- assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation- should be ensured. | Community Organizing is PARTICIPATIVE |
| Community organizing should empower the disadvantaged population. | Community Organizing is DEMOCRATIC |
| Community organizing should be directed towards changing current undesirable conditions | Community Organizing is DEVELOPMENTAL |
| The community organizing goals of empowerment and development are achieved through a process of change. | Community Organizing is PROCESS-ORIENTED |
| is a process that promotes the development of people’s autonomy and self-reliance, leading to people empowerment | Community Organizing |
| For people empowerment, it is a critical condition for success | community participation |
| considered as the prime mover and determinant, rather than beneficiaries and recipients, of development efforts, including healthcare | community |
| It involves preparation on the part of the organizer and choosing the community for partnership | pre-entry |
| • Formalizes the start of the organizing process • Stage where the organizers gets to know the community and the community likewise gets to know the organizer • Important point: make courtesy calls to local formal and informal leaders | Entry into the Community |
| the organizer gains entry into the community through padrino or patron, usually a barangay or some other local government officials | Padrino entry |
| easiest way to catch the attention and gain the “approval” of the community | Bongga entry |
| is the phase when the organizer may actually live in the community in an effort to understand the community better and imbibe community life | Community Integration (Pakikipamuhay) |
| The organizer visits the community as per schedule but is not able to transcend the “guest” status. | "Now you see, now you don’t” style |
| The organizer rents a room or a house in the village, lives his/her own life and does not share the life of the community | “Boarder” style |
| The organizer lives with the barangay chairman, or some other prominent person in the community. | “Elitist” style |
| This approach allows the organizers to develop a deeper relationship with the whole community through various techniques | People-centered Approach in Integration |
| Requires the organizer to observe the daily schedule of activities of households to avoid inconvenience on the part of the family | Pagbabahay-bahay or occasional home visits |
| Informal conversations help a lot in integrating with the community. | Huntahan |
| Organizer participates in the livelihood activities, such as farming in an agricultural community. | Participation in the production process |
| Social functions and activities help the organizer and the people to get to know each other through face-to-face encounters. | Participation in social activities |
| The process of gathering, collating and analyzing data to gain extensive understanding of community conditions | Social Analysis |
| Once potential leaders are identified, they should be trained and eventually become part of the community organizing team. | Identifying Potential Leaders |
| The formation of a viable, functioning core group is the focal point of community organizing | Core Group Formation |
| An essential component of core group formation is _____ particularly in terms of analyzing the root causes of the problems | reinforcement of social consciousness of the members |
| On the initiative of the core group, the community conducts an assembly or a series of assemblies, with the goals of arriving at a common understanding of community concerns and formulating a plan of action in dealing with these concerns | Community Organization |
| • Known as the mobilization phase • Refers to implementation of the community’s planned projects and programs | Action Phase |
| A project may fail , but as long as the community gains valuable experience and learns from the process, it is not a failure in itself. true or false? | true |
| Throughout the social analysis, regular meetings are conducted for monitoring and continuous training for community leaders true or false? | false. Throughout the mobilization phase, regular meetings are conducted for monitoring and continuous training for community leaders |
| It is a systematic, critical analysis of the current state of the organization and/or projects compared to desired or planned goals or objectives | Evaluation |
| 2 Major areas of evaluation | • Program-based evaluation • Organizational evaluation |
| The time of exit should be mutually determined by the organizer and the community during meeting for monitoring and evaluation | exit and expansion |
| GOALS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING | 1. People’s empowerment 2. Building relatively permanent structures and people’s organization 3. Improved quality of life |
| People learn to overcome their powerlessness and develop their capacity to maximize their control over the situation and start to place the future in their own hands | People’s empowerment |
| Aims to establish and sustain relatively permanent organizational structure that best serve the needs and aspirations of the people | Building relatively permanent structures and people’s organization |
| Also seeks to secure short-and long-term improvements in the quality of life of the people | Improved quality of life |
| is an approach to research that aims at promoting change among the participants | PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (PAR) |
| is a community development approach that allows the community (participatory) to systematically analyze the situation (research), plan a solution, and implement projects/programs (action) utilizing the process of community organizing | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (COPAR) |
| The essence of Primary Health Care and Community Organizing | development of SELF-RELIANT communities, fully responsible for their health decisions, and that is health in the “hands of the people” |
| COPAR is supposed to break the practice of making the people passive recipients of services merely answering surveys and listening to the “expert’s analysis of their own situation.” TRUE OR FLASE? | TRUE |