COMMUNITY FINAL REVIEWER

Chapter 2: Community Engagement

Lesson 1: Community Engagement Defined
Community Engagement- refers to the “the process of working collaboratively with and
through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest or similar
situations to address affecting the well-being of those people”.
Community engagement becomes possible through social trust, cooperation,
functional coalitions, and effective partnerships.
Community engagement is a vehicle to affect societal changes because it mobilizes
resources, influences systems and strengthens social relationships.
Solidarity

- it is that core component of community engagement.

-it refers to the “idea of unity or feeling of agreement among individuals with a
common interest”.
- Solidarity is the adhesive that strengthens the links among the people in a
community.
Citizenship
-characterizes the relationship between a citizen and a political community.
Lesson 2: Community Action and Community Development
Community engagement is - expressed through community action, that is , a collective
action by a community for the purpose of arresting a crisis, addressing a challenge,
solving a problem, or accomplishing a specific outcome.
Partnership Building- it refers to linking and strengthening the shares in interests of
sectors and accomplish common goals and objectives for mutual benefit.
Community action in the Social Sciences Perspective
Sociology- collective action points towards the capacity of communities to act and
behave as a social unit.
Anthropology- lends insight to the local history and culture of a community as factors
of community action.
Political Science- emphasizes the realities of power-sharing and decision-making.
Community Development
As a product, Maser defines community development as the: capacity of the people to
work together to address their common interests.”
As a process, it requires an integrative approach to systematically asses the problem,
capacitate the community and solve a problem.
The process of community development has the following characteristics:
1. It involves participation from a big segment of a community.
2. it is participated by well informed members.
3. it results to decisions made through a consensus among community members.
4. it encourages group building, leadership development, and capacity building among
community members while addressing the issue at hand.
5. It uses a systematic approach in addressing local concerns.
6, it is an examination of community problems and issues in its entirety and not as
isolated and independent cases.
Lesson 3: Issues and Problems of Communities
An issue is a subject matter that people argue about or discuss.
Examples of community issues:

1. youth development
2. community health
3. waste disposal
4. public safety and security
5. Livelihood
Community Problems are conditions or qualifications of issues that are undesired by
members of a community.
1. Issue: Community Health
Problem: Spread of Malaria and Typhoid
2. Issue: Community Employment
Problem: Unemployment
3. Issue: Waste Disposal
Problem: Poorly Managed or inefficient waste disposal
SANA ALL.