NOTRE DAME OF NEW ILOILO, INC.

A Diocesan School
NEW ILOILO, TANTANGAN, SOUTH COTABATO
Tel. No. (083) 229 – 1113
Email Address: notredamenewiloilo@gmail.com

SUBJECT: Community Engagement, GRADE LEVEL: TWELVE

Solidarity, and Citizenship
QUARTER: ONE WEEK:ONE(October19-23, 2020)

I. OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

1. explain the core values of community action initiatives;
2. appraise the value of social equity and gender equality in the
context of participatory development;
3. analyze strategies of empowerment and advocacy through
community action.
II. PRE-ASSESSMENT
Direction: Read and understand the questions carefully and write your answers on a separate paper.
1. Why is community action important? Cite a scenario and
explain.
III. CONTENT/ DISCUSSION /INFORMATION
C. CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY-ACTION INITIATIVES
Overview
Community action is any activity that increases the understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the
design and delivery of local services.
Community action includes a broad range of activities and is sometimes described as ‘social action' or ‘community
engagement'. These activities can vary in their objective, the role the community plays, the types of activities involved,
their scale and their integration within the council. What they have in common is that they all involve greater engagement
of local citizens in the planning, design and delivery of local services.
Why is community action important?
Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local services. Involving communities in the
design and delivery of services can help to achieve a number of objectives, including:
Building community and social capacity – helping the community to share knowledge, skills and ideas.
Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support, engagement in design, cross-sector collaboration and
partnerships. 
Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into employment or developing community enterprises.

Core Values and Principles of Community-action Initiatives

1.) Human Rights. It refers to the concept of human beings as having universal natural rights, or status, regardless of legal
jurisdiction or other localizing, such as ethnicity, nationality, and sex.
Human rights are set of standard that guarantee a life befitting a rational human being. It is a basic and minimum standards
without which people can’t live in dignity. It also guarantees the development and wholeness of our being. Human rights
are also the “Foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
Four Characteristics of Human Rights:
1. INHERENT – it is essential part or our lives, intrinsic.
2. UNIVERSAL - people have human rights whoever they are and wherever they are.
3. INDIVISIBLE – human rights must be enjoyed by everyone in its full range.
4. INALIENABLE – can’t be taken away or transferred (but can be limited when the exercise of it is an affront to the rights
of others.)
HUMAN RIGHTS CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS:
1. CIVIL RIGHTS – pertains to rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship (e.g.. right to a name, right to freedom
from discrimination, right to equality before the law, right to public trial, right to marry, right to leave a country, etc.).
2. POLITICAL RIGHTS – enables the people to participate in running or influencing the administration of the government
(e.g. right to vote, right to freedom of expression, right to free and periodic elections, etc.).
3. ECONOMIC RIGHTS – pertains to access to resources- such as land, labor, physical, and financial capital- that are
essential for the creation, legal appropriation, and market exchange of goods and services (e.g. right to work, right to own
property, right to adequate standard of living, etc. )
4. SOCIAL RIGHTS – relates to living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups (e.g. right to social
security, right to social welfare, etc.).
5. CULTURAL RIGHTS – ensures the well-being of the individual and foster the preservation, enrichment and dynamic
evolution of arts, manners and way of living of a group with principles of unity in diversity of expression ( e.g. right to take
part in the cultural life, right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its application.)

2.) Social Justice. It is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society as measured by

the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social privileges. In Western as well as in older Asian
cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their  societal
roles and receive what was their due from society.

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 NOTRE DAME OF NEW ILOILO, INC.
A Diocesan School
NEW ILOILO, TANTANGAN, SOUTH COTABATO
Tel. No. (083) 229 – 1113
Email Address: notredamenewiloilo@gmail.com
Social justice assigns rights and duties in the institutions of society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits and
burdens of cooperation. It include taxation, social insurance, public health, public school, public services, labor law and
regulation of markets, to ensure fair distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity.
Human rights are universal and inalienable. All people everywhere in the world are entitled to them.
Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and
tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social privileges.
3.) Empowerment & advocacy
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social
institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to influence public policy, laws and budgets by using facts, their
relationships, the media, and messaging to educate government officials and the public. Advocacy can include many
activities that a person or organization undertakes including media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning and
publishing research.
Example:
Advocacy - "public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy."
Social work skills: empowerment and advocacy. Qualified social workers are expected to have the
necessary skills to empower service users to participate in assessments and decision making and also to
ensure that service users have access to advocacy services if they are unable to represent their own views.
Empowerment -" Authority or power given to someone to do something.
4.) Participatory development. It is to give the poor a part in initiatives designed for their benefit" in the hopes that
development projects will be more sustainable and successful if local populations are engaged in the development process.
Stakeholders and Participatory Development groups:
1. General public: those who are directly or indirectly affected by the project (women’s groups, individuals and families,
indigenous groups, religious groups).
2. Government: civil servants in ministries, cabinets, etc.
3. Representative assemblies: elected government bodies (parliament, national and local assemblies, district and municipal
assemblies, elected community leaders
4. Civil society organizations: networks, national and international NGOs, grassroots organizations, trade unions, policy
development and research institutes, media, community based organizations.
5. Private sector: umbrella groups representing groups within the private sector, professional associations, chambers of
commerce.
6. The dynamics of development planning are changing, largely due to the increasing participation and importance of the
latter groups:(i) local government units (LGUs), (ii) CSO/NGOs and the private sector, and (iii) development partners.
7. Decentralization and devolution of authority to LGUs is a form of participation, in the sense that sub-national agencies
now play a bigger role in the bringing about national progress.
8. Cooperation with CSO/NGOs continues to strengthen the effectiveness and sustainability of ADB poverty reduction
efforts by harnessing NGO experience, knowledge, and expertise.
9. Networks or consortia of regional and/or national CSO/NGOs have proliferated the past years establishing platforms for
both operations and advocacy.
10. Global efforts towards harmonization among Governments and Development Partners.
5.) Gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities
regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities
regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
seeks to engage local populations in development projects

IV. ASSESSMENT
A – Direction: Answer what is being asked. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
1. Give one Core Values and Principles of Community-action Initiatives and explain it using your own understanding.
2. In your community, write down some problems about gender equality that needs to be addressed and write down the
possible solutions.
3. Is it possible to separate personal from professional values in practice, especially when engaged in advocacy? Identify a
couple or personal values that would challenge your ability to advocate for a client population.

V. FEEDBACK

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A Diocesan School
NEW ILOILO, TANTANGAN, SOUTH COTABATO
Tel. No. (083) 229 – 1113
Email Address: notredamenewiloilo@gmail.com
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