Purpose of and Assessing

Community Action
 Education

 Literacy Rate of Filipinos is – 95.6

 Functioning Literacy is – 84.1
 Research shows that Urban areas have higher literacy rate
compared to Rural.
Solution to Education

 Alternative Learning System

 Kindergarten Act of 2012
 Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
Current Education Problem

According to UNESCO
 69 percent of poor kids proceed to High School compared to 94
percent of rich kids.
 Fewer males from lower income family can finish college.
 Overload Curriculum.
 Rural Areas received more support from our government.
 Health

According to NEDA
 Life expectancy of Filipino – Male 65 and 72 for Female
 Lower Maternal Mortality
 Lower Infant Mortality Ratio
Problem

 Workforce in far flung areas remain underserved compared to

cities.
 Medicine remains to be expensive.
 Heart Disease continue to be the number 1 killer
 Pregnant women, infants, and children are underserved.
 Livelihood

According to ADB 2016; World Bank 2016

 Our Government was able to sustain an economic growth from 5 – 5 percent.
 Overseas Remittance (OFW)
 Tourism
 Business process outsourcing
Problem

 Philippines has the 3rd highest poverty

incidence in SEA (ADB)
According to IFAD(2012)
1. Decline in the productivity and
profitability of farming due to
unsustainable activities.
2. Poor people in rural areas have little
access to business.
 Environment

 Philippines environmental laws are many but our

environment still face problem because of conflicting
policies and a very weak implementation.
Problems

 Serious degradation of forest lands and watersheds

 Loss of critical habitat and unique biodiversity
 Deteriorating quality of farmland
 Saltwater intrusion into water supplies
 Overfishing and Illegal fishing
 Deteriorating quality of air and massive pollution
 Improper Waste Management
 Disaster

 Natural and Anthropogenic disaster is the major cause of Poverty in our country.
(According to NEDA and CoA)
 80 percent of our population is consider to be vulnerable to disasters. (World Bank 2009)
 Typhoon is the number one cause of Disaster in our country.
The aforementioned concerns in our country
require community action to address the problems.
No single person can solved such problems, thus
community action is necessary.
 Role of Youth in Community Action

 Kabataan ang Pag asa ng bayan – PEPE

 TheProgress of every country is based, among other
things, on its ability to hone its youth in constructing and
crafting its future. – U.N 2010
The role of Youth has been enshrined in the
following:

 The Philippine Constitution (Article II, Section 13)

 The 1991 Local Government Code
 R.A no. 8044 or the 1995 Youth in Nation-Building
 R.A no. 10742 or the S.K reform Act of 2015
 Philippine Youth Development Plan
 Special Youth Groups

SYG’s are the following

 Youth in Indigenous Communities
 Abused and Exploited Youth
 Juvenile Delinquents
 Differently Abled Youth
 Drug-dependent Youth
 Abandoned Youth
 Victims of Natural Calamities Youth
 Roger Hart’s ladders of Young People
Participation

 This ladder is the best known model for Organizations to

help identify and remove practices that hinder the
participation of young people in community.
Level 1: Manipulation(Nonparticipation)

 Adults use young people’s idea and voices to their own advantage.
They have complete authority over the young and they define and
implement policies without any input from the youth.
Level 2: Decoration

 The Youth may be called in to embellish adult actions

through singing, dancing, or performing.
Level 3: Tokenism

 The youth may be given a voice merely to create a child-

friendly image for adults, but in reality the youth’s voice
are not heard.
Level 4: Assigned but Informed

 Adults take the initiative to inform the youth and the

youth then decide whether they will get involved or not.
Level 5: Consulted and Informed

 The Youth are extensively consulted on projects designed and

managed by adults. The young people are informed on how their
inputs will be used and the extent their voice will be used.
Level 6: Adult Initiated, shared decision with Youth

 Adults are the one who plan the project, but the youth is
involved in the decision making process.
Level 7: Young People Lead and Intitiate Action

 The projects are initiated by Youths and they

involved the adults in the decision making
process. Ault and Youth experience partnership.
 The goal of Harts Ladder is to have the choice to move
away from non participatory practices towards a more
meaningful participation. Level 1-3 is transactional, 4-6
is transitional while the last 3 is Transformational.
Through this level, the youth are given opportunity to
perceive different situation and recognize their
importance and influence to the world.
Assessing Community Action Initiatives

 Solving social problems require a set of core values and

principles that will serve as a basses in assessing whether
community action initiatives have been carried out
properly.
The Core Values of Community Action

 Adherence to Social justice

 Respect, Protection, and Fulfillment of Human Rights
 Promotion of Gender equality and Equity
 Ensuring peoples empowerment
 Safeguard of People’s participation in the development
 Use of Advocacy
 Guarantee of Environmental Sustainability.
Adherence to Social justice

 Fighting
for equality and fairness in the treatments of
human being, distribution and access to resources.
Respect, Protection, and Fulfillment of Human
Rights

 Peopleshould neither be deprive of their rights

nor should be allowed to violate another rights.
Promotion of Gender equality and Equity

 Giving equal opportunity to men, women and lgbtq so

that they may develop their personal abilities and attain
fairness.
Ensuring peoples empowerment

 Developments of one’s capacity to make effective

choices.
Safeguard of People’s participation in the
development

Empowering people that are part of the mass.

Use of Advocacy

 Helping the marginalized to conscientize the public,

government, policymaker, people in authority, so that
power holder can be influenced to address the needs of
people.
Guarantee of Environmental Sustainability.

 Attainment of peoples well being without sacrificing the

nature.