Community Engagement

Solidarity and Citizenship 12

Quarter 1
Module 14
Community Action Modalities:
1. Community Organizing and
Development
2. Human Rights
3. Children and Youth Welfare
Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship
Quarter 1 – Module 14: Community Action Modalities: Community Organizing
and Development / Human Rights / Children and Youth Welfare
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 Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship 12
Quarter 1
Module 14
Community Action Modalities:
1. Community Organizing and Development
2. Human Rights
3. Children and Youth Welfare
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship Self-

Learning Module on Community Action Modalities: Community Organizing and
Development / Human Rights / Children and Youth Welfare!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the Learner:

Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship Self-

Learning Module on Community Action Modalities: Community Organizing and
Development / Human Rights / Children and Youth Welfare!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

1. Identify different modalities in community building.

2. Assess the approaches employed by different organizations in helping
community.
3. Manifest appreciation of the efforts of some sectors in helping community
achieved stability.

PRETEST

Complete the Statement. Pick from the given choices the appropriate word that will
complete the statements. Choose only the letter that corresponds to your choice
answer. Try knowing your performance in this test with the help of a parent
/guardian.

Answer choices:
A. welfare B. organization
C. organizers D. poverty

1. The GK believes that _____ is a complex issue and therefore there isn’t a sole
solution.

2. The community _____ must be able to exhibit an extra-ordinary diplomatic and

leadership skills to be able convince everyone to be supportive of the idea of
organizing them into one solid group.

3. Any efforts towards the development of any community will not gain positive
sustainable results if the _____ of the young members will not be included in the
general plan.

4. Gawad Kalinga is a non-government _____ the name of which was derived from a
Filipino term meaning to “give care.”

5. The SK is not an _____ but an administrative body of the bigger group identified
in the Local Government Code of 1990 as the Katipunan ng Kabataan.
 RECAP
Before we proceed to module 14 let us see first if you can still recall the
discussion in module 13. Try recalling the past discussions by answering the
following questions:

1. What are the three movers of community actions?

2. How can you say if a person is merely engaged in the community actions and
not driven by the idea of citizenship?
3. How can you measure the effectiveness of a community action initiative?

Thank you for trying! I hope you are all set for the lessons in this module.

LESSON

Community building is a process of

transforming the community into dynamic
and self-reliant social organization. The
stability of the community is the manifest
end result of the process. Stability has
been achieved if the community can
exhibit resilience to any form of challenges
brought about by economic, social,
political, environmental and health issues
like the covid19 pandemic.

The illustration shows that the

people must be empowered, informed, involved and actively engaged in the process.
It is in this way they can be effective contributors to the community development
goals.

The following discussions will attempt to examine how different community

action modalities view community building. Specifically community organizing and
development, human rights, and children and youth welfare. The discussions will
center on how certain organizations carry out their programs based on their pre-
established vision of the society.

1. Community Organizing and Development. Organizing the community into one

cohesive social organization is essential to the community development process.
NGOs as well as concerned government agencies can enter the picture but their
participation cannot be as effective in injecting changes compared to when the
residents themselves are the ones taking the lead. Familiarity with the nature, origin
and effects of the problems at hand will be a very big factor in finding effective and
long term solutions.

However, community organizing is not as easy as asking the people to work

collectively as a team. There will be challenges that may hinder the flow of their
actions like the diversity of views on the causes and ways of addressing the problems.
The community organizers must be able to exhibit an extra-ordinary diplomatic and
leadership skills to be able convince everyone to be supportive of the idea of
organizing them into one solid group. The challenge is in fact more complicated in
urban communities.

Gawad Kalinga

A non-government organization the name of which was derived from a Filipino

term meaning to “give care.” This NGO started in 1995 and its mission was
conceptualized to address issues of people in slum areas. The aim of restoring the
dignity of the poorest of the poor served as the springboard to its entry in the field of
community organizing.

Part of the advocacies of the

GK is the creation of sound
physical environment for
the poor like the one in the
picture. That would not
have been possible without
the engagement and
solidarity of the people in
improving the standard of
living in their own
community. Photo source:
iloilotoday.com

The GK believes that poverty is a complex issue and therefore there isn’t a
single solution to it. It is to be confronted using multitude of approaches merged into
one community development program. The website of GK identified certain factors
that need to be address in order outdo poverty as a social menace. They are the
following: shelter and land security; child and youth development; social business
and family productivity; health and well-being; and building cohesive and resilient
communities.

The GK further believes that a nasty physical and social environment breeds nasty attitude
and behavior. Which is why aside from physical make-over of the place, the organization places
change of one's heart and mind, coupled with a strong desire to work together at the core of their
endeavor.
2. Human Rights. According to the late Senator and one of the institutions in the
promotion of human rights in the Philippines Jose W. Diokno: No cause is more
worthy than the cause of human rights…they are what makes [one] human. Deny
them and you deny [one’s] humanity” (philrights.org, 2017).

As defined by the United Nations (un.org), human rights are rights inherent to
all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or
any other status. It include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and
torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, among
others.

Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)

Is the sole civil society representative in the Philippine Government’s

Presidential Human Rights Committee (PHRC), and is affiliated with different
international organizations promoting the cause of human rights around the world.

PAHRA a registered non-stock, non-profit alliance of individuals, institutions

and organizations committed to the promotion, protection and realization of human
rights in the Philippines was established on August 9, 1986. Its emergence was a
result of a congress that was participated in by different organizations from all over
the country.

The alliance
envisions a just,
democratic, and
peaceful Philippines
founded on human
rights culture. It also
envisions a society
where there is gender
equity, recognition of
multiculturalism, Photo credits to philippinehumanrights.org
environmental
protection, and sustainable development. As such, all individuals and peoples are
able to fully realize their potentials, participate and contribute in the economic,
political, social and cultural life of society, and share equitably in the benefits of
economic progress (philippinehumanrights.org, 2016).

The goals of PAHRA is to promote and defend human rights, and prevent
human rights violations and abuses by:

 Establishing structures, and processes for Human Rights;

 Working for gender equality;
 Attaining justice through indemnification for human rights victims and abuse;
  Protecting environment and developing sustainable development strategies;
and
 Working for peace based on justice and Human Rights

3. Children and Youth Welfare. The children and the youths are the hope of every
nation. Therefore measures must be taken by the sectors concerned to promote their
welfare. To make them productive members of the society in the future. Any efforts
towards the development of any communities will not gain positive sustainable
results if the welfare of the young members will not be included in the general plan.

In the Philippines, 33.28 percent of the population represents those in the age
of 0 - 14 based on the 2010 census. The percentage of the youths in productive age
from 15 to 29 is 27.66 in the same period. They are a combined 60.94 percent of the
country’s total population. This means that the future of this country is in the hands
of a big number of individuals who, when properly nurtured, can potentially
contribute to the country’s development goals.

UNICEF Philippines
United Nations
International Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) Philippines is an
agency of the United Nations
that provide humanitarian and
developmental support to
children in the country. It is
mainly focusing on the welfare
of the children who are
considered vulnerable and
disadvantaged. It is an epitome
to the UN’s commitment to the Photo credits to Jeoffrey Maitem / UNICEF
development efforts of every Philippines 2013
state.

The emphasis of the UNICEF’s actions are shown in the illustration:

 The agency has been closely working together with relevant government
agencies to address issues on child development. From the policy making to the
delivery of essential services like health care and education.

The Katipunan ng Kabataan

Many youths today can hardly identify any youth

organizations in their barangay other than the Sangguniang
Kabataan or most popularly known as the SK. However the SK
is not an organization but an administrative body of the bigger
group identified in the Local Government Code of 1990 as the
Katipunan ng Kabataan. This assembly is composed of the young
residents of the barangay that fall within the ag e group defined by law and included
in the list of the Sangguniang Kabataan or in the official list in the custody of the
Baragay Secretary (R.A. 7160, Book 3, Title 1, Chapter 8, Section 424).

The Sangguniang Kabataan

is often associated with the
Sports Program at the
community level. Photo
source: sunstar.com

The SK is provided with budget allocation which is 10 percent of the total

annual budget for the whole barangay which the youth council will use to fund youth
development activities within their jurisdiction. The primary functions of the of the
SK are as follows:

1. Promulgate resolutions necessary to carry out the objectives of the youth in

the Barangay in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Code;
2. Initiate programs designed to enhance the social, political, economic, cultural,
intellectual, moral, spiritual, and physical development of the members;
3. Submit annual and end-of-term reports to the Sangguniang Barangay on their
projects and activities for the survival and development of the youth in the
Barangay ;
4. Consult and coordinate with all youth organizations in the Barangay for policy
formulation and program implementation; and
5. Coordinate with the appropriate national agency for the implementation of
youth development projects and programs at the national level;
 ACTIVITIES

Positive or Negative. Your task in this activity is to determine which of the following
social conducts provided in the table are reflective of positive view of community and
which are not. Just put a check mark on the space that complements your own
assessment of each of the social conducts.

After completing this activity try reflecting on how those different

organizations manage to maintain positive outlook on any communities.

Positive Negative
Social conducts
(+) (-)
1 Helping restore the dignity of the poorest of the poor.
Assisting poor people from having their own descent
2
home.
Pushing for own idea during the meeting with the
3
youths in the community.
4 Promoting gender equality.

5 Working for peace based on justice and human rights.

Encouraging people to be belligerent in dealing with
6
persons who defy the rules.
7 Pushing for laws that will protect children’s welfare.
Keeping a deaf ear on the call for collective action on
8
gender issues.
Consulting youth organizations in the formulation of
9
programs for youth development.
Telling people to just focus on personal matters
10
instead of meddling on community issues.

WRAP-UP

You are now in the part of this subject where you should try to assess the
action modalities of some community-based organizations. First we discussed about
community organizing. Can you please expound on the importance of organizing in
the community building process?
We also had a background check of the GK and the PAHRA. How will you
differentiate one from the other in terms of their advocacies?
 Lastly, the nature of the Sangguniang Kabataan was also discussed. Can you
give an idea on the activities being implemented by the SK that you think worthy of
being praised?

VALUING

As had been discussed, community organizing is a very challenging task but

many NGO’s opted to face the odds attempting to do it. It may be difficult at first but
in the long run it will make the work of the community enabler a lot easier. Because
in the end, the work will be transferred to the community leaders that may be chosen
to take on the task.
I hope you can imagine how difficult it is to be a community organizer or
community action initiator especially in our present condition. Try imagining also
that you are doing the same task in your community. How do you see yourself in the
same situation?

How about in your household, how can you make yourself effective in
promoting the welfare of everyone inside your home. As a member of the household
you have duties and responsibilities to perform. If the community enablers can do it
why can’t you? Take on the challenge!

POSTTEST

Statement Completion. Pick from the given choices the appropriate word that will
complete the statements. Choose only the letter that corresponds to your choice
answer. Try knowing your performance in this test with the help of a parent
/guardian.

Answer choices:
A. welfare B. organization
C. organizers D. poverty

1. The SK is not an _____ but an administrative body of the bigger group identified
in the Local Government Code of 1990 as the Katipunan ng Kabataan.

2. Gawad Kalinga is a non-government _____ the name of which was derived from a
Filipino term meaning to “give care.”
3. Any efforts towards the development of any community will not gain positive
sustainable results if the _____ of the young members will not be included in the
general plan.

4. The GK believes that _____ is a complex issue and therefore there isn’t a sole
solution.

5. The community _____ must be able to exhibit an extra-ordinary diplomatic and

leadership skills to be able convince everyone to be supportive of the idea of
organizing them into one solid group.

KEY TO CORRECTION

5. C 4. D 3. A 2. B 1. B Posttest:

5. B 4. B 3. A 2. C 1. D Pretest:

ANSWERS:

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Publishing House.

Zulueta, Francisco M. 2002. General Sociology (Revised Edition). Mandaluyong

City: Academic Publishing Corporation.

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background-ph. Accessed on July 4 2020
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates. PAHRA About the Alliance. 2016.
https://philippinehumanrights.org/about Accessed on July 5 2020.
Philrights. Who We Are / What We Do. 2017. https://www.philrights.org/about-
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Unicef.org. UNICEF Philippines: What We Do.
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Official Gazette – The Local Government Code: Book 3, Title 1f, Section 424 – The
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Photos and Illustrations:

Iloilo Today. “2 GK Villages to Rise in Lambunao.” Iloilo Today. April 18 2019.

https://www.iloilotoday.com/2-gk-villages-to-rise-in-lambunao/.
Accessed on July 5 2020.

PAHRA - Pagbabago Ni Duterte: Karahasan, Kahirapan, Katraydoran Sa Bayan,

Panagutin! November 9 2019. Accessed on July 5 2020.
https://philippinehumanrights.org/news/11-statements/43-assert-the-
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Sunstar. “To Play Ball against Drugs.” Sunstar. sunstar, October 20, 2018.
https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1770197/Cebu/Local-News/To-
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