SELF-LEARNING HOME TASK (SLHT)
Subject: Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship (CSC) Grade: 12
Level: Senior High School Quarter: Fourth Week: 5
MELC: Formulate a community action plan
Competency Code: HUMSS_CSC12- IVa-d-19
A. Readings/Discussions
COMMUNITY ACTION
Community organizing and action had and still has major role and contributions in
the development of a community as a practice and discipline. It is a constitutive
dimension and a core process in the community development and in social change. We
cannot fully develop or transform society without considering the organization of small
communities and sectors, especially the poor, deprived, oppressed, exploited,
marginalized, discriminated, and other excluded sectors (people with special needs,
elderly, indigenous people, and others).
What is Community Action?
Community action includes a broad range of activities and is sometimes described
as ‘social action' or ‘community engagement'. These activities can vary according to its
objective, role that community plays, the types of activities involved, the scale and the
integration within the council. What they have in common is that they all give opportunity
to a greater engagement of local citizens in planning, designing and delivery of local
services.
Purpose of Community Action
Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local
services. Involving people and their community in the design and delivery of services that
can help achieve a number of objectives, such as:
Building community and social capacity – helping the community to share knowledge,
skills and ideas.
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.
There are steps to follow when undertaking Community Action, but the process
itself can be flexible depending on the needs and conditions of the community
being organized.
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MAJOR ISSUES AFFECTING POOR AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES
Causes of Poverty
Low to moderate economic growth
Slow poverty reduction growth
Low employment and quality of work
Lack of fully developed agriculture
Inflation occurs when crisis happens
Overpopulation
High level of inequality in income
Exposure to risks
Marginalization
The process whereby something or someone is pushed to the edge of a group and
accorded lesser importance. This is predominantly a social phenomenon by which a
minority or sub-group is excluded and their needs or desires ignored.
Immigrants, Refugees, and Migrants
Women and Girls
Victims of Human Trafficking
Mentally Ill
Children and Youth U
.People of Differing Sexual
Orientation (LGBT community)
People of Differing Religions
Developmentally Delay...
People of Differing Religions
Orientation
Developmentally Delayed,
The Role of the Youth in Community Action
"KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NANG BAYAN"
Ways on how Youth can Change the World through Community Development
Youth as Community Organizers - When youth is not engage by the government, in a
community organization, other community groups and non- profit can step in to create
youth as community organizers. Through training and empowerment they can develop a
unique powerful campaigns that will engage many people, including children, youth,
adults and families.
Youth and Government - Participation in regular and sustained government position,
roles and activities can allow youth community developers to change the world. Roles
should be rule voting and frequent, and focus on engaging diverse young people.
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Youth as Planners -Young people can participate as community planners in community
development work through education and training and equipped them of skills and
knowledge that they can impart among their peers, young people as well as adults.
Processes to undertake in Community action
A. Identification and Prioritization of issues, problems, and concerns.
B. Formulation of an action plan indicated in a comprehensible objectives, methodologies
or strategies, time frame/time duration, needed resources, and responsible persons,
committees, or groups.
C. Evaluation of the process.
Important Things to Consider in Community Action
It is good to start with the basics. In the process of strengthening community
organization, it is better to first gain small successes. A systematic community must have
education and formation; a creative and sustainable community reflection action-
reflection; a consistent and regular planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation;
an effective communication systems; a proper and organized research and
documentation; a well-managed resource mobilization; a continuous leadership formation
and development; and a sustained network, linkages, and solidarity work with other
groups can assist the community organization in the challenge of sustainability. In other
words, community organization must establish an organizational culture.
COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN
What Is a Community Action Plan?
The community action plan is one of the participatory tools used to build the capacity
of community members in taking action in accordance with the problems, needs, and
potential of the community.
The community action plan is a road map for implementing community change
by clarifying what and how it will be done and who will do it. The plan describes what
the community wants to achieve, what activities are required during a specified
time/period, what resources (money, people and materials) are needed to be
successful.
The community action plan should become a framework for implementing the activities
that are decided by the community itself. The focus is more on the process of
understanding and overcoming problems in order to rebuild the people's lives rather than
just physical development such as building houses, providing clean water or toilet
facilities. It is important to understand that the community should be the main actors in
preparing their own community action plan. Producing the action plan helps people to
take realistic and concrete steps toward participatory development planning in order to
improve not only sanitation and water system but what is essential in the community
development by bringing everyone together to think and discuss about resources and
group involvement, this tool increases awareness about the skills and resources already
available in the community.
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General Principles of Community Action Plans:
It is a process for action; not a blueprint for future development.
The solution for problems comes from the community itself, while the role of the
facilitator is more on formulating the problems in the community.
It is not determined from outside the community but grows/emerges from the
affected community.
Avoid activities such as lecturing or teaching the people; but concentrate more on
workshops as a form of discussion with the community.
Guarantee that all relevant groups participate in the activities, particularly the women
and other community groups that are often forgotten.
Facilitate input from all groups; do not allow one group or leader to dominate the
discussion.
Remember that one issue might appear to be not very important for one group, but
is important for another group.
Avoid too many pictures and text; it is better to absorb and remember several points
rather than make a long list.
Use simple language and avoid difficult terms.
Make the material as simple as possible.
The development and formulation of a community action plan consists of
several standard measures that are generally applicable. However, in practice, the
specific context and nature of community needs in a specific or chosen
community action plan will add uniqueness to those measures.
Stages in formulating a community action plan can be described as follows:
Opening: Introduction and Socialization: This first stage intends to provide a common
understanding of the importance of having a good action plan, and a common
understanding of why an action plan is needed.
Social and Environmental Mapping financing: This stage is meant to gain an
understanding of the latest conditions in the community life that is the social, economic,
as well as environmental conditions. By developing a map, the community will be able to
get a better picture of problems and priorities.
Identifying the Problems, Needs, and Resource Potential: This stage defines the
problems that are actually faced by the community, the needs that must be fulfilled in
order to overcome the problems, and the financial resources available to accomplish the
needs. This process of identification should be done carefully in order to avoid becoming
just a task of making a “wish list”, and should be viewed as a process of understanding
the current situation and what must be done to overcome the situation as fast as
possible.
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Determining the Priority in Problems and Needs: In this stage the problems and
needs are ranked by the community members according to their level of urgency, their
importance for the development of community life, and the opportunity to overcome and to
fulfil.
Formulating the Choice of Strategy: In this stage, the strategy is developed and the
approach chosen that is the most feasible to be used in overcoming the problems and
fulfilling the needs on the priority list.
Formulating the Choice of Action: In this stage, it is determined which action has to be
taken in implementing the chosen strategy and approach.
Formulating the Implementation Plan: This stage is used to formulate a schedule and
the division of tasks in carrying out the action chosen.
Formulating the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan: This stage is used to formulate a plan
and system of monitoring and evaluating the execution of activities.
Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation: This final stage consists of carrying out the
action, and at the same time monitoring and evaluating.
Considerations for Completing a Community Action Plan
The following points should be taken into consideration in completing a community action
plan:
Partnerships among people. In order to accomplish the goals and objectives in the plan,
many people will have to be integrated and have to fully participate in doing the work. It is
important that the involved people develop good relations and trust among each other.
Close alignment with the community’s mission and vision. The vision that was
developed during the community assessment process reflects where the community wants
to be headed. The mission is the purpose of your group. During the writing of the action
plan, the writers work from the vision and the mission to identify several major goals
(priority or strategic) that must be reached. These, in total, work toward the vision and the
mission.
A feasible plan does not have to be “perfect”. More important than a “perfect” action
plan is one that is feasible for the community partnership to complete within a reasonable
period of time. The action plan is a working document that can be reviewed as the group
implements it. It is a starting point that people can continue to update and revise as
community groups learn over time and through their evaluation, how to accomplish their
goals.
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Exercise 1
Directions: Below is a sample community action plan in tabular form. Fill in the box with
corresponding data. Some of the data are already provided.
Exercise 2
Directions: Make an action plan using the suggested program/project.
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C. Assessment/Application/Outputs:
As an active member of the community or in your own barangay, how would you
formulate an action plan based from the pressing problem/issue in your community
or barangay?
Directions: Fill up the necessary information to complete the action plan for
community-based initiatives.
D. Suggested Enrichment/Reinforcement Activity/ies
Directions: Read the article and formulate an action plan based from the article.
Use the same template above for your action plan.
Many countries had made progress against such traditional and transactional
marriages of girls in recent decades, but COVID-19’s economic havoc has caused
significant backsliding: The United Nations estimates that hardships resulting from
COVID-19 will drive 13 million more girls to marry before the age of 18.
Though most such marriages take place in secret, Save the Children estimates
that this year alone, nearly half a million more girls under 18 are at risk of being married
off worldwide, most in Africa and Asia, but also in the Middle East. One aid organization
said staffers in a remote corner of Sierra Leone overheard a relative offering up a girl as
young as 8 for marriage earlier this year. When chastised, the grandmother later denied
doing so.
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REFERENCES:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship by DIWA Publishing.
Accessed: June 18, 2020
Online Sources:
https://prezi.com/p/flzdcxkdplfk/purpose-of-community-action/
Accessed: June 25, 2020
https://sswm.info/sswm-solutions-bop-markets/improving-water-and-sanitationservices-
provided-public-institutions-1/community-actionplan#:~:
text=The%20plan%20describes%20what%20the,decided%20by%20the%20
community%20itself.
GUIDE
For the Teacher: You may give other exercises/reinforcement activities other than the
ones provided for in this SLHT.
For the Learners: Please read carefully the key points/readings and follow correctly
directions in accomplishing exercises/tasks.
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Should you need assistance, you may contact the subject teacher to address questions or
give clarifications/discussions.
Prepared by: Edited by:
ESPEDITA V. MIRAMONTES IMELDA V. CANOY
SHS Editor
Reviewed by:
CLAVEL D. SALINAS
Division SHS Coordinator
