COMMUNITY  Combination of constructive forces of men,

 A group of people brought together by materials, machinery, and money.

geography, culture, and common interest.
 An aggregation of families and individuals
settled in a fairly compact and contiguous
geographical area, with significant element
of common life as shown by the manners,
customs, tradition, and mode of speech,
Common Elements of a Community
1. A population or groups of people
2. Area or territory
3. A sense of interrelatedness or social
interaction
4. Sharing of common ties or bond
Understanding Community in the Philippine
Context
 Started as Balangay which means “boat”
 The first wooden watercraft that contained
communal groups of ancestral Filipinos (the
Malays) who came to the land and
established its very first community ruled by
the socio-political religious leaders called
the “Datu”
 From Balangay to Baranggay
 A term which has been adopted by
the Philippine government as a
name for the smallest of political
units.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
 A strategy, a method, and a process of
enabling people to think, to speak-up, and
to act upon problems and needs
collectively.
Phases
1. Awakening
2. Empowerment
3. Restructuring
4. Institutionalization
 So that these may work together in an
orderly way to turn out finished goods or
profit, or render services to the community.
Entering the Community
1. Clarity or Purpose
2. Courtesy Call to Local Authorities
3. Adopt a Lifestyle (Personal Appearance &
Speech and Behavior) that fits in which that
particular community.
Step 1 – Integration with the People
 Establishing rapport with the people to
imbibe community life by living with them
and undergoing the same experiences as
the community does, sharing time, hopes,
and aspirations
 To immerse in the community, to get
to know the culture, history,
economy, leaders, and lifestyle of
the people.
Step 2 – Social Investigation/Social Analysis
 Process of systematically learning and
analyzing the various structure and phases
in the community
 Economic, Political, Socio-Cultural
 It is a phase and process itself.
 As a phase, it comes at the
beginning; as a process it is
continuing.
 To gather data on geographic, economic,
political, and socio-cultural situation of
community
 Identify classes and sectors present in the
community
 Identify potential leader

4 General Phases of Basic Community

Development and Organization

1) Issue/Problem Identification and Information

Dissemination
 Real needs are distinguished from felt
needs
 Problems are defined and analyzed
 Relationships are developed
 Rapport is established
 Face to face interaction with people is made
 Opinions are elicited and information are
disseminated.

2) Mobilization of People/Community
 People are stimulated to come together to
discuss problems.
 Meetings are called to set objectives, plan,
and implement action.
 Identify potential leaders and committee
work is stimulated.

3) Organization

Page 1 of 1