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Community Organization
Community Organization
Community Organization
Community Organizing is a systematic, planned and liberating change process of transforming a complacent, deprived and malfunctioning community into an organized, conscious, empowered and self-reliant, just and humane entity and institution. [Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP)] usually introduced through church structures.
Community Organizing (CO) is a continuous process of: Educating the people to understand their critical consciousness of their existing conditions; Organizing people to work collectively and efficiently on their problems; Mobilizing people to develop their capability and readiness to respond and take action on their immediate needs towards solving their long term problems. [-UP College of Social Work and Community Development]
PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILIZATION SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Learn, Plan and Work with the People The people know better than any other outsider what their needs and problems are. The community members, with the assistance of the community organizer, must be the one to determine the program appropriate to answer their needs/ problems.
Start With and Build on What the People Know Community organizers must begin with the indigenous resources, technologies and structures that the community has. Improve on their strengths!
Teach By Showing, Learn by Doing For the community to learn effectively, the worker must demonstrate different procedures or techniques and not merely give instructions.
Not Piecemeal but an Integrated Approach Community organizing is an interrelationship of various elements and factors.
Not Relief, But Release Community organizing is a process that liberates a community from its identified problem.
Entry Stage The community has the right to know of the organizers entry in their area. Because of such, a courtesy call to the barangay officials and respected leaders form the said community is necessary. An orientation on the assisting organizers background and purpose must also be clearly relayed.
SWOT analysis is a technique to analyze the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of a decision, problem, place, etc. In community development and urban planning, SWOT is often used at community meetings to structure conversations about quality of life in a neighborhood or a controversial project. Carrying out this analysis often illuminates what needs to be done and put problems into perspective.
STRENGTHS:
attributes of the community that are helpful to achieving their development like human/material resources
WEAKNESSES:
attributes of the community that are harmful to achieving their development like lack of trained manpower
OPPORTUNITIES:
external conditions that are helpful to achieving their development like support from LGUs, NGOs, GOs
THREATS:
external conditions which could do damage to the community's performance like outside organizations implementation problem
Narrative text that describes community characteristics, such as population demographics, economic and social history of the communities, the importance of various facilities. Tables or graphics that summarize important data or conclusions, such as population demographics or employment trends. A visual map or maps that depict physical characteristics, such as neighborhood boundaries, land uses, public facilities, and commercial centers.
Community Profile
Community Characteristics
1. Population and Demographic Characteristics Trends in population growth and demographics Ethnicity and race Age and gender distributions Income levels Educational attainment Employment status Special population subgroups, such as disable persons
2. Socio-Economic History/Characteristics Community historical background and context Population of indigenous groups Community values and issues (e.g., security and solitude) Economic base/livelihood Other economic characteristics
Physical Characteristics Community centers/activity centers Infrastructure (e.g., roads, transit, and water and sewage systems) Public services and facilities (e.g., schools, police, fire, libraries, and hospitals) Land-use plans and zoning Special areas, historic districts, and parklands Businesses Housing Planned and approved future development
4. Health Status common and endemic diseases disease causes and management maternal and child-care practices sources of water, waste and disposal dietary patterns
5. Access to Service groups and agencies that are providing service, and the type and frequency of the service they provide 6. Community Organizations organizations in the barangay, their projects, activities, and organizational set-up
Evaluation In some inevitable cases when problems during the implementation may arise, the community organizer, again, as a facilitator, may assist the community in examining what happened, what went well, what has been learned and what should happen next.
Thank You!
Maria Cristina Roxas sircroxas@yahoo.com