COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY
AND CITIZENSHIP
COMMUNITY ACTION
 Overview of Community Action

• Community Action is a campaign

undertaken by the people living in a
particular place.
• Community Action changes people’s lives
embodies the spirit of hope, improves
communities and makes the Philippines a
better place to live.
• Community action encompasses
community engagement, community
solidarity, and citizenship building.
 Community Engagement
• Refers to the process by which
community benefit organizations and
individuals build ongoing, permanent
relationships for the purpose of
applying a collective vision for the
benefit of a community.
 Origin of Community
Engagement

• Community engagement can trace its roots

to the concept of community benefit, a term
that grew out of an English common law
concept, articulated in 1891 legal decision
that defined four types of charitable
institutions;
• Trusts for the advancement of
education;
• Trusts for the advancement of
religion ;
• Trusts for the other purposes
beneficial to the community
• Birth of community organizing
• Methodologies of community
engagement are a result of problems in
the community where local leaders are
unable to initiate the projects by
themselves or the community people
to engage in the project/s they became
involved in.
 Current Methods and
Implementation
• Practical community engagement
is used as an active method of
implementing change,
1. Determine the goals of the plan
2. Plan out who to engage
3. Development engagement strategies for those
individuals you do not already know
4. Development engagement strategies of those
individuals you do not already know
5. Prioritize those activities
6. Create an implementation plan
7. Monitor your progress
8. Maintain those relationships
KEY CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
• Friend raising
• Community impact planning
• Community-driven governance
• Asset-based resources development
• Vision-based community impact planning
• Organizational wellness planning
• Building programs on shared resources
• Community sleuthing
• Community-based program development
 Differences Between Civic, Social,
and Community Engagement

• Civil engagement refers to political

activity, membership and volunteering
in civil society organizations.
• Social engagement refers to participation
in collective activities.

• Community engagement refers to the

process by which community benefit
organizations and individuals build
ongoing, permanent relationships for the
purpose of applying a collective vision for
the benefit of a community.
Core Principles of Community
Engagement
1. Careful planning and Preparation
-Through adequate and inclusive planning,
ensure that the design, organization and
convening of the process serve a both clear
defined purpose and the needs of the
participants.
2. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
-Equitably incorporate diverse people, voices,
ideas, and information to lay the groundwork
for quality outcomes and democratic
legitimacy.
3. Collaboration and Shared Purpose
- Support and encourage participants ,
government, community institutions, and
others to work together to advance common
good.
4. Openness and learning
-help all involved listen to each other, explore
new ideas unconstrained by predetermined
outcomes, learn and apply information in
ways that generate new options, and
rigorously evaluate community engagement
activities for effectiveness.
5. Transparency and Trust
-Be clear and open about the process, and
provide a public record of the organizers,
sponsors, outcomes, and range of views and
ideas expressed.
6. Impact and Action
-Ensure each participatory effort has real
potentials to make a difference, and participants
are aware of that potentials
7. Sustained Engagement and Participatory
Culture
- Promote a culture of participation with
programs and institutions that support on going
quality community engaganent.
 COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY
Solidarity is a mutual commitment to one
another’s well being.

Solidarity is about more than investing a week in

one another’s lives; more than knowing one
another’s name and caring about one another’s
lives.
CORE PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY
SOLIDARITY
1. Dignity of the human person
- Every human being is created in the
image and likeness of God and
therefore has inherent dignity. No
human being should have their dignity
or freedom compromised.
 2. The common good
-Every person should have sufficient
access to the goods and resources of
society so that they can completely
and easily live fulfilling lives.
3. Subsidiary and participation
- All people have the right to
participate in decision that affects
their lives.
 4. Solidarity Regardless of
Ideological Differences
- Everyone belongs to one human family,
regardless of their national, religion,
ethnic, economic, political, and ideological
differences. Everyone has an obligation to
promote the rights and development of all
peoples across communities, nations, and
the world, irrespective of national
boundaries.
5. Preferential option for the
poor
- Caring to the poor is everyone’s
responsibility. Preferential care
should be given to the poor and
vulnerable people whose needs and
rights are given special attention on
God’s eyes.
 6. Economic justice
- Economic life is not meant solely for profit, but
rather in service of the entire human
community. Everyone capable should be
involved in economic activity and should be able
to draw from work, the means for providing for
themselves and their family
 7. Stewardship of Creation
- We must all respect, care for and share the
resources of the earth, which are vital for the
common good of the people.
 8. Promotion of peace
- All peace requires for the development of
human life, which in turn involves the
safeguarding of the goods, dignity and freedom
of people.
CITIZENSHIPS FOR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized
under the custom or law as being a member of
a country.

A person may have multiple citizenships and a

person who does not have citizenship of any
state is said to be stateless.
Nationality is often used as a synonym for
citizenship in English – notably in international
law – although the term is sometimes
understood as denoting a person’s membership
of a nation (a large ethnic group).
• Parents are citizens (jus sanguinis)- if one or both
a person’s parents are citizens of a given state,
then the person may have the right to be a citizen
of that state as well.
• Born within a country (jus soli)- some people are
automatically citizens of the state in which they
are born.
• Marriage to a citizen (jure matrimonii)- many
countries fast-track naturalization based on the
marriage of a person.
• Naturalization- states normally grant citizenship
to people who have entered the country legally
and been granted permit to stay, political asylum
and also lived there for a specified period.
 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION
a. Servant Leadership- often the initiative for
processes such as these in communities
comes from the bottom, the grassroots.
b. Regularity- a good process done continually
or at periodic intervals over time has a
tendency to generate positive effects far
beyond its use in a single event.
c. Complementarily- each of these processes
has a power of its own.
ACTIVITY
 GROUP 1
Differentiate the following as briefly as possible

Civic engagement and

community engagement
 GROUP 2

Citizen and national

 GROUP 3

Community engagement
and community action
 GROUP 4

Subsidiary and
participation
 GROUP 5

Jus sanguinis and jus

soli
Jure Matrimonii
 GROUP 6
Answer the following question by using your
critical and analytical thinking skills

What are the methods of

implementing change? Discuss
them briefly
 GROUP 7

How is community
engagement be conducted
in the community?
 GROUP 8

Why shared community

engagement be
sustained? Give answers
 GROUP 9

Why is solidarity important

in the community? What are
their rationales?
 GROUP 10

Why is the poor given

preferential attention in the
community development
than the rich or well – to –
do people? Support your
answer.
 GROUP 11
React favorably or unfavorably to the following
statements.

Community action is about

people who are concern for the
well being of the community
people
 GROUP 12

Determination, hard work and

reflective thought are needed
by students in order to
recognize an area for
improvement and actively work
to accomplish a change.
 GROUP 13

The highest mission of

community action is to
foster and advocate for self-
sufficiency among low
income people.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL
JUSTICE
Enrichment Exercises
 Are you in favor of “shame
campaign” and death by
hanging: as ways of preventing
crimes?
Should the 1987 Constitution be
amended? If YES, what
provisions should be added and
removed? If NO, why not?