1. UNIT IV
COMMUNITY ACTION

2. 1. Overview
a) Community engagement
b) Solidarity
c) Citizenship
2. Purposes of Community Action
a) Major issues affecting poor and marginalized communities
b) The role of the youth in community action
3. Selected cases of communityaction initiatives

3. Competencies:
• Recognize the value of undertaking community action modalities
• Acknowledge interrelationship of self and community in undertaking
community action
• Identify opportunities to contribute to community development
through solidarity
• Recognize the importance of solidarity in sociopolitical processes in
promoting national and global community development
• Assess selected community-action initiatives

4. Community Engagement
PlanningSustainability
Development Implementation
Resilient
Progressive Accountable
Adaptable Vigilant
Dynamic Social
Development Model
Virtues: Resilient, Vigilant,
Progressive, Adaptable, and
Accountable
Five-point initiative: Engagement,
Planning, Implementation,
Development, and Sustainability

5. Resilient- ability of the community to get back on its feet after a
calamity and continue with its existence.
Vigilant- being awake and alert to to avoid dangers of problems;
the sustained assessment of not just threats or danger but of
progressive ideas and solutions;challenging the norms that are
needed to be changed, altered, or developed further.
Progressive- to challenge and have new ways of thinking; action
not reassessment; to act on ideas; to change the staus quo by
anticipating future trends; strive to avert future problems by
creating innovative schemes and ideas that will further enhance
and keep up with changes in its environment; innovative ways of
thinking.

6. Adaptive- being able to face challenges and obstacles and making a
choice;deals more with the present condition and what is readily
available to mitigate or solve the problem;to be creaative and find new
ways of planning, implementing, and sustaining growth;ability to
change course and act quickly on problems are the results of the
nature and openness to adaptive calibrations of behavior, policy, and
other norms.
Accountable- reflective; meaning, all we input as people in the
community will be reflected back to us; accountable for our actions and
to take our obligation to review ourselves; have a clearer picture of
their existence; envisioning a future through careful planning,
execution, and review of their initiatives and projects; review of targets
and goals after projects are carried out; should be present in every
process to ensure the integrity of the projects.

7. Five-point Community Initiatives
Engagement- about connecting to the commnity and its people.
Planning- is the next step in realizing ideas from a blueprint
Implementation- the next point of emphasis
Development- foresight and progressive thinking; programs or projects
that last by enhancing their process.
Sustainability- the goal that each aspires to reach

8. Solidarity
Competecies:
• Identify opportunities to contribute to community development
through solidarity
• Recognize the importance of solidarity in sociopolitical processes in
promoting national and global community development

9. • Processing the Experiences:
• Was it easy to keep one balloon from touching the ground?
• How did you feel when the second balloon was added?
• How were you able to keep both balloons up?
• Did you ever need someone else’s help to keep your balloons from touching the ground?
• Did you ever help someone else to keep his or her balloon from touching the ground?
• At what point did you realize you were dependent on the other group members to
succeed at keeping all of the balloons in the air
• Did you feel a responsibility toward the other group members to keep all of the balloons
in the air?
• Why did you feel this way?
• How does this relate to your own life?
• In life, is it easier to juggle life’s challenges alone or with the help of other.

10. Self-Involvement to Community
Engagement

11. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
• The real value of participation
stems from the finding that
mobilizing the entire community,
rather than engaging people on an
individualized basis or not
engaging them at all, leads to
more effective results (Braithwaite
et al., 1994).

12. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
This participation is "a major method for improving the
quality of the physical environment, enhancing services,
preventing crime, and improving social conditions"
(Chavis et al., 1990, p.56). There is evidence that
participation can lead to improvements in neighborhood
and community and stronger interpersonal relationships
and social fabric (Florin et al., 1990). Robert Putnam notes
that social scientists have recently "...unearthed a wide
range of empirical evidence that the quality of public life
and the performance of social
institutions...are...powerfully influenced by norms and
networks of civic engagement." Moreover, "researchers
in...education, urban poverty,...and even health have
discovered that successful outcomes are more likely in
civically engaged communities" (Putnam, 1995, p.66).

13. What are the purposes of Community Action?

14. 1. mobilizing the entire community, rather than
engaging people on an individualized basis or not
engaging them at all, leads to more effective results;
2. improving the quality of the physical environment,
enhancing services, preventing crime, and improving
social conditions;
3. lead to improvements in neighborhood and
community and stronger interpersonal relationships
and social fabric.

15. Major issues affecting poor and
marginalized communities:

16. The role of the youth in
community action:

17. CITIZEN’s SOCIAL PARTICIPATION
1. Community Activists: Work with others on local problems,
form a group to work on local problems, active membership
community organizations, contact officials on social issues.
2. Apathetic Inactive: no participatory activity, not even
voting.
3. Passive Supporters: vote regularly, attends patriotic
parades, pay all taxes but don’t indulge in social projects.
4. Protesters: Join in public street demonstration, protest
vigorously if a government does something morally wrong,
attend protest meetings, or refuse to obey unjust laws.
5. Communicators: Keep informed about the state of the
nation, engaged in discussions, write letters to newspaper
editors, send support or protest messages to national and
local leaders.
6. Volunteerism: It is an essence of democracy which
refers to the principle or system of supporting or doing
something by voluntary efforts or actions. It comes from the
word voluntariness or the quality of being free in the
exercise of one’s free will; and that such act or deed is
performed without valuable/material consideration

18. Parts of Project Proposal
I.ACTIVITY DETAILS
II.BRIEF CONTEXT/PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACTIVITY
III.OBJECTIVES
IV.COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM DESIGN
V.BREAKDOWN OF EXPENSES
VI.ALLOCATION OF EXPENSES
VII.PROJECTED INCOME
VIII.SUMMARY OF FUNDS
IX.PROVISIONS FOR PROFIT AND LOSS

19. Title of Activity
Nature of Activity ENMP/ENP
Type of Activity Time
Date Venue
Project Head/s Contact Number
I.ACTIVITY DETAILS

20. (Part 1)
What situation do you see (observation/s) in your organization, university, society, or our world?
What certain experiences, problems, or questions do you have in relation to what you see? (May be supported with data or research if there
is any or if needed)
(Part 2)
Why is there a problem?
What could be the cause and effect?
How did you feel about the experience, situation, or problem? And why did you feel that way?
What can we discover or realize?
(Part 3)
Out of all the possible projects, activities, and solutions, Why this?
As an organization, what will you commit as a response to what you have stated in Part 2?
(Part 4)
Briefly state what will happen to your project/ program.
Who will be your project/program beneficiaries?
Who will be your partner/s in this project/ program?
II.BRIEF CONTEXT/PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACTIVITY

21. State what you intend to address through this activity – the expected
outputs of the activity.
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
III.OBJECTIVES

22. IV.COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM DESIGN
DATE DURATION ACTIVITY BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY PERSON- IN- CHARGE
Number hrs/ days Sequence of activities 1-2 sentence description of the activity
stated in the previous column
This part can serve as your
reference during preparation,
execution, and implementation.

23. TIME DURATION ACTIVITY BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY PERSON- IN- CHARGE
Start time and End time**note: Registration
and clean up time should be outside the
activity time**
Number of minutes/ hrs Sequence of activities 1-2 sentence description of the activity
stated in the previous column
This part can serve as your
reference during preparation,
execution, and
implementation.

24. V. BREAKDOWN OF EXPENSES
Materials Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost
Total: ABCD
Declared Activity Budget (from Budget Proposal/GOSM): ABCD

25. VI.ALLOCATION OF EXPENSES
Source/s of Funds Amount
Organizational Funds AAA
Participants Fee BBB
Others (please specify, i.e. Sponsorships) CCC
Total: ABCD