Community Engagement

Solidarity and Citizenship 12

Quarter 2
Module 5

Strategies for Community

Organizing
Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship
Quarter 2 – Module 5: Strategies for Community Organizing

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 Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship 12
Quarter 2
Module 5

Strategies for Community Organizing

Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship 12 Self-

Learning Module on Strategies for Community Organizing!

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 12 Self-
Learning Module on Strategies for Community Organizing!

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. Cite different strategies on community organizing.
2. Examine the strategies presented based on their effectiveness in addressing
particular issues of community.
3. Present a strategy that will fit the condition in the student’s community.

PRETEST

Read the following statement carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct
answer that identify each statement.

1. The most difficult stage of community organizing, people tends to

ignore you, so you have to live with them.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

2. To ensure sustainability there will be a continuous human resource

development, policy refinement, and development of organizational
programs that will help strengthen the organization.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

3. You have to make a necessary preparation like gathering basic

information, you are not there to save them, that you are not superior
to them, and that you need to dress accordingly.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

4. Each member of the group should represent a particular sector such

as the farmers, youth, and women. Once ready, each sector, member
will form his/her own group, such as a farmer’s group or a youth
group.
 a. Identifying and Developing Potential Community Leaders
b. Community Study/ Situation Analysis
c. Core Group Formation
d. Setting up the Organization

5. Stage of Community Organizing where in you have to organizational

leaders will be elected, and necessary policies will be established.
Then training of the members will be carried out.
a. Identifying and Developing Potential Community Leaders
b. Community Study/ Situation Analysis
c. Core Group Formation
d. Setting up the Organization

RECAP

Let’s have a review from the previous lesson. Let’s see what you have learned on
the last topic by answering the following questions.

1. What is Community Mobilization?

2. What are the strategies of Community Mobilization?
3. What are the three community partner teams in Community Mobilization?

LESSON

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
DEFINITION, STEPS, AND ROLE

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING - is the form and process of building a group of

people who have a common vision and goal and who engage in community
action.
According to Stall and Stoecker (1997), CO involves the entire process of
“organizing relationships, identifying issues, mobilizing around those issues,
and maintaining an enduring organization”
Community organizers help make the people realize the power of collective
action, which starts from identifying common problems in the community,
defining and addressing the problems together, mobilizing resources as a
collective and sustaining community action as one body.
 STEPS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Community organizers may employ different strategies in organizing a
community, but there are basic steps that they usually adhere to. Manalili
(1985) as cited by Quintin (1988) presented the following steps.
1. ENTRY IN THE COMMUNITY – Entry to a particular community means
you have done the necessary preparations like gathering basic
information about political, economic, cultural and ecological conditions
in the area. Also, there are psychological –and perspective –setting, such
that you are not there to save them, that you are not superior to them,
and that you need to dress accordingly.

2. INTEGRATION WITH THE PEOPLE – The most difficult stage is the

integration part of the process. There is a possibility that the people will
ignore you. Thus, you try to live them. Live with them – eat what they eat,
drink what they drink. Learn to do things their way. Get to know the
people. Join conversations smoothly and listen intently to what they are
saying and not saying.

3. COMMUNITY STUDY/SITUATION ANALYSIS - Based on the data that

the community organizers have gathered, they will review the preliminary
data and enhance analysis based on the new data. Since the organizers
have considerable knowledge of the community, the CO can discuss
some pressing problems with them casually. The CO grabs every
opportunity to be able to raise social consciousness of the people.

4. INDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING POTENTIAL COMMUNITY LEADERS -

While integrating and discussing social issues with the people, the CO
consciously observes and spots potential community leaders, those with
deep concern for the people and a good grasp of the community’s
problems. The CO will train and develop these potential leaders by letting
them facilitate and initiate discussions.

5. CORE GROUP FORMATION - the Co will form a core group comprising of

potential leaders. The Co will have regular discussions and training with
the group. As much as possible, each member of the group should
represent a particular sector such as the farmers, youth, and women.
Once ready, each sector, member will form his/her own group, such as a
farmer’s group or a youth group.

6. SETTING – UP THE ORGANIZATION - Once the organization is set – up

structures will be formed, organizational leaders will be elected, and
necessary policies will be established. Then training of the members will
be carried out.
7. STRENGTHENING THE ORGANIZATION – In ensuring sustainability,
there will be a continuous human resource development, policy
refinement, and development of organizational programs that will help
strengthen the organization.

ACTIVITY

Development and Peace understands the

importance of strong communities. When
communities are united, cohesive and
organized, they have to power to improve their
living conditions and to be more resilient in the
face of natural disasters.
Choose one with the given issue below,
use the Steps in Community Organizing to
organize a community that can help with these
issues. Please be guided of the rubrics below.
1. Youth Empowerment
2. Pollution within the community
3. Malnutrition
4. Out of School Youth

RUBRICS
Score
Criteria
1 2 3 4 5
CONTENT. Consistent with the lesson.
CLARITY. The idea has been clearly presented

COHESION. Presentation of ideas was logically sequenced

TOTAL

WRAP-UP
Before we end up with Module 5 let us see how much you’ve learned from
topics:

1. What is community organizing?

2. What are the steps in community organizing?

VALUING

Organizations are important for your community because they focus

each community's needs specifically. These organizations are the gateway to
voice your opinion to government organizations. Community based
organizations make improvements at a family level according to your
environment. More transportation, housing, environmental protection,
emergency response and petitions are issues each community addresses.
Attending community board meetings will help you create relationships with
others in your neighborhood and create a tight knit community, and a tight
knit community can benefit everyone in the neighborhood and can keep
small businesses going, as well as preserving historical significance, safety,
and keeping your neighborhood clean. At the community meetings,
members of the community as well as yourself, can voice opinions and
concerns to help find solutions and push for new ideas and changes that
can improve your neighborhood. It's your community, and the change can
start with you. If you were to choose one issue in the community that you
want to change what is it?

POSTTEST

Read the following statement carefully. Encircle the letter of the correct
answer that identify each statement.
1. The most difficult stage of community organizing, people tends to
ignore you, so you have to live with them.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

2. Stage of Community Organizing where in you have to organizational

leaders will be elected, and necessary policies will be established.
Then training of the members will be carried out.
a. Identifying and Developing Potential Community Leaders
b. Community Study/ Situation Analysis
c. Core Group Formation
d. Setting up the Organization

3. To ensure sustainability there will be a continuous human resource

development, policy refinement, and development of organizational
programs that will help strengthen the organization.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

4. You have to make a necessary preparation like gathering basic

information, you are not there to save them, that you are not superior
to them, and that you need to dress accordingly.
a. Strengthening the organization
b. Entry in the Community
c. Core Group Formation
d. Integration with the People

5. Each member of the group should represent a particular sector such

as the farmers, youth, and women. Once ready, each sector, member
will form his/her own group, such as a farmer’s group or a youth
group.
a. Identifying and Developing Potential Community Leaders
b. Community Study/ Situation Analysis
c. Core Group Formation
d. Setting up the Organization
 KEY TO CORRECTION
PRETEST
5. D 4. C 3. B 2. A 1. D

POSTTEST
5. C 4. B 3. A 2. D 1. D

References

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