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THE HEALTH RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM III
The Health Resource Development Program (HRDP) was developed andsponsored by the Philippine Center for Population and Development (PCPD)to make health services available and accessible to depressed and underservedcommunities in the Philippines. The PCPD is a non-stock, non-profit privateinstitution which serves as a resource center assisting institutions andagencies through programs and projects geared toward the social humandevelopment of rural and urban communities. PCPD was formerly thePopulation Center Foundation.The PCPD sponsored health training institutions or hospitals to carry outthe program as part of the outreach activities of these schools or hospitals.The training institutions developed an effective system of delivery of the primary health care in depressed communities and trained the communityresidents in the management of their own health concerns. The PCPD provides funds for health programs while the schools or hospitals have acounterpart to contribute in the form of service or in kind.The HRDP has three cycles. The first cycle (HRDP I) trained the faculty,medical/nursing students to provide health care services to the far-flung barrios because of lack of manpower for health services at the same time thatsimilar activities fulfilled the curricular requirements of students for publichealth. The PCPD provides seed money for the income-generating projects.On the other hand, the community organizer uses his/her own strategy or method in developing the community. His is considered to be a short-termservice.The second cycle (HRDP II) uses the same strategy but the program couldnot be sustained by the schools or hospitals and the income generating projects eventually became a hindrance to the goal of achieving the health program because the people tended to be more interested in the incomegenerated by the projects.Both HRDP I and II have brought about some changes in the communitylife of the people. There was an established basic health infrastructures; basichealth services were increased, there were trained health workers andorganized health groups to take care of the healthy needs of the community.The PCPD refined the program and resulted to what is now called HRDPIII.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ANDPARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (CO-PAR)
Community Organizing-Participatory Action Research has been the strategyused by the HRDP III in implementing the Primary Health Care delivery indepressed and underserved communities to become self-reliant.The HRDP III describes Community Organizing as a continuous and sustained process of educating the people to let the m understand and develop their criticalawareness of the existing conditions; it is working with the people collectivelyand efficiently discover their immediate and long-term problems and mobilizingthe people to develop their immediate needs toward the solution of their long-term projects.Objectives of Community Organizing:1.To make people aware of social realities toward the development of localinitiative, optimal use of human, technical, and material resources, andstrengthening of people’s capacities.2.To form structures that hold the people’s basic interests as oppressed anddeprived sectors of the community and as people bound by the interest toserve the people.3.To initiate the responsible actions intended to address holistically thevarious community health and social problems.As applied to Primary Health Care, Community Organizing is defined as the process and structures through which members of the community are tapped to become organized for participation in health care and community developmentactivities. They organized themselves to get better health care and improve their health as a part of a larger effort, to increase their power and achieve greater social and economic equality within a larger social system.As a process, Community Organizing is the sequence of steps whereby themembers of the community work together to critically assess and evaluatecommunity conditions to improve thee conditions.As a structure, it refers to the particular group of community members thatwork together for common health and health-related problems.It can be culled from this definition that it is the people who organizedthemselves into a working team who can effectively solve their own health problems.
 
EMPHASES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
1.The community works to solve their own problems.2.The direction is internal rather than external.3.The development of the capacity to establish a project is moreimportant than the project.4.There is consciousness-raising to perceive health and medical carewithin the total structure of society.
PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
As a process, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is an investigation on problems and issues concerning life and environment of the underprivileged byway of research collaboration with the underprivileged whose representatives participate in the actual research as researchers themselves, doing research of their own problem.As a structure, the beneficiaries of the research are the main actors in theresearch process. It enables the community to experience a collaborativeconsciousness of their own situations. PAR involves research, education andactions to empower people determine the cause of their problems, analyzedthese problems and act by themselves in responding to their own problems.The essential element of PAR is
participation
.PAR is a community-directed process of gathering and analyzinginformation for the process of taking actions and making changes.In PAR, there is an outside researcher, a professional one who throughimmersion and integration on the community becomes a committed participantand learner in the community.The Objectives of PAR:1.To encourage consciousness of the suffering and develop competencefor changing their own situation2.To help in the organization building by harnessing both human andnatural resources in responding to community needs.3.To enhance the knowledge of the researcher in the community on thesocial reality before them.
PARTICIPANTS IN PAR 
a.Outside Researcher. The outside researcher is a professionalresearcher, who is committed and a learner; active learner rather than detached. He goes into an immersion and integration in thecommunity. He shares his research knowledge to encouragegenuine participation but would never assume a paternalisticauthoritarian attitude but leaves the application of thatknowledge to the people of the community. b.Local Researcher. The local researchers are trained in the processof research and are made aware of the needs of their people andcommitted to do something about them. The local researcherselicit active participation from community members for collective data gathering, data analysis and action. They are thelink between the community and the outside resources.
HRDP CO-PAR PROCESS
1. Pre-entry Phase.-initial phase of the organizing process where the communityor organizer looks for community to serve. It is the simplest phase in the community organizing process in terms of expected outputs, activities and strategies. The activities donein this phase are:
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Community consultations/dialogues
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Setting of issues/considerations related to siteselection
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Development of criteria for site selection
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Site selection
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Preliminary social investigation (PSI)
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 Networking with local government units (LGUs), NGOs and other departments within the HRDP-NGO
 
2. Entry Phase / Social Preparation Phase-most crucial phase of the COPAR. It allows the communitytube on active participant of the success of the phase dependson how the project implementers have integrated with thecommunity people. This phase includes activities such as:
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Integration with the community
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Identification of leaders
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Continuing Social Investigation
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Provision of health services3. Community Study / Diagnosis Phase (Research Phase)- comprehensive documentation of data gathere which focus onsystematically looking for issues around to organize the people. Activities done in this phase includes:
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Selection of the research team
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Planning for the actual data gathering
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Data gathering
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Training of data validation
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Presentation of the community study/diagnosis andrecommendations
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Prioritization of community needs/problems for action4. Community Organization and Capability-Building Phase- signals the start of the community self-management becauseit entails the formation of the formal structure and theinclusion of the formal procedure of planning,implementing, promoting and evaluating of community-wide activities. Activities are:
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Election of officers
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Delineation of the roles, functions and tasks of officers and members of the CHO
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Working out legal documents 
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Intervention scheme and community development projects
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Setting up linkages/network/referral system5. Sustenance and Strengthening Phase- when the community can already stand on their own thus the people can sustain the program even without the help from project implementers. Activities included are:
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Formulation and ratification of constitutions and by-laws
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Continuing education and upgrading of communityleaders, CHWs and CHO members
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Formalizing and institutionalization of linkages,networks and referral systems
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Identification and development of secondary leaders
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