COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,

SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP

Lesson:8 Core Values and Principles of

Community-action Initiatives
 I.Learning Objectives
1. explain the core values of community action initiatives
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2. promote awareness of human rights in communities among
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3. appraise the value of social equity and gender equality in
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4. analyze strategies of empowerment and advocacy through
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5. develop commitment and conviction to participatory
development for community well-being HUMSS_CSC12- IIIh-j-
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 I.Activity # 1 -- jumbled letter
Direction: arrange the jumbled letter to identify the pictures below

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INTRODUCTION
 Passion: We love what we do and it shows.
Integrity: We believe that the example we set
means everything.
Respect: We consciously embrace diversity and
strive to eliminate injustice.
Performance: We innovate, measure our success,
and move forward with purpose.
 1. Human rights

Human rights are rights

inherent to all human beings,
regardless of race, sex,
nationality, ethnicity, language,
religion, or any other status.
Human rights include the right to
life and liberty, freedom from
slavery and torture, freedom of
opinion and expression, the right
to work and education, and many
more.
 human rights include the right to
life and liberty, freedom from slavery
and torture, freedom of opinion and
expression.
the right to work and education, and
many more. Everyone is entitled to
these rights, without discrimination.
 Social justice

Social justice is the view that

everyone deserves equal
economic, political and social
rights and opportunities. Social
workers aim to open the doors
of access and opportunity for
everyone, particularly those in
greatest need.” National
Association of Social Workers.
“Social justice encompasses
economic justice.
What are the 4 types of social justice?
This article points out that there are four different
types of justice:
►distributive (determining who gets what) it concerned with
the fair distribution of the burdens and benefits of social cooperation among diverse persons with
competing needs
► procedural (determining how fairly people are
treated)
how people's perception of fairness is strongly impacted by the quality of their
experiences
► retributive (based on punishment for wrong-doing)
legal punishment that requires the offender to receive a punishment for a crime
proportional and similar to its offense
► restorative (which tries to restore relationships to
"rightness.") an approach to justice that aims to get offenders to take responsibility for
their actions, to understand the harm they have caused, to give them an opportunity to redeem
themselves, and to discourage them from causing further harm
 Empowerment & advocacy

It is a process of supporting people and

advancing or promoting the rights these
individuals have. Advocacy, in connection with
community engagement, also means attaining
people empowerment. It can be led by people
who are not part of the community or by
leaders within the community.
 Participatory
development
A process through which
groups and communities
determine through inclusive
dialogue and consensus.
1) their development priorities
2) the design of solutions that
address their priority needs.
The responsibility of
implementation of a solution
lies with the participants
 Gender equality

Gender equality, also known as

sexual equality or equality of the
sexes, 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
Written activity
Direction: read the statement carefully,determine whether the statement is TRUE OR
FALSE.

1.Gender equality provide protections for women only.

2. Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal
economic, political and social rights and opportunities.
3. human Freedom is the ability to act or change without
constraint or to possess the power and resources to fulfill
one's purposes.
4. Human freedom are the basic rights and freedoms that
belong to every person in the world.
5. distributive deals with how people's perception of fairness is
strongly impacted by the quality of their experiences.
6. procedural justice deals with how people's perception of fairness is
strongly impacted by the quality of their experiences.

7. distributive is concerned with the fair distribution of the burdens and

benefits of social cooperation among diverse persons with competing
needs.

8. retributive is a legal punishment that requires the offender to receive a

punishment for a crime proportional and similar to its offense.

9. restorative aims to get offenders to take responsibility for their actions,

to understand the harm they have caused.

10. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of
race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.