Community Engagement,
Solidarity, and Citizenship
Chapter 2: Community
Engagement
Try to come up with your own
definition of community using 15
words or less. Discuss and
compare your definition with the
rest of the class and see who has
the most concise and
encompassing definition.
What is the community problem
in Barangay Banaba?
What is community engagement?
Lesson 1: Community Engagement
Defined
• Refers to the “process of
working collaboratively
with and through groups of
people affiliated by
geographic proximity,
special interest, or similar
situations to address issues
affecting the well being of
those people”.
• Social trust
• Cooperation
• Functional coalitions
• Effective partnership
Social Changes
What is solidarity?
Solidarity
• Idea of unity or
feeling of agreement
among individuals
with a common
interest.
Is solidarity important in
community engagement?
Lesson 2: Community Action and
Community Development
Community Action
• A collective action by
a community for the
purpose of arresting a
crisis, addressing a
challenge, solving a
problem, or
accomplishing
specific outcome.
Examples of community action
• Consultation
• Education
• Public participation
• Partnership building
with government
agencies
Community Action in the Social
Science Perspective
Community Action (Sociology)
• Examines how a
community collectively
identifies their
problems, decide on
the course of action,
and assess whether or
not their actions have
led to their well-being.
Community Action
(Anthropological)
• Lends insight to the
local historical and
culture of a
community as factors
of community action.
Community Action
(Anthropological)
• Solutions to
community problems
should be
appropriate to the
experience and
identity of the
community.
Community Action
(Anthropological)
• The most valid source
of community action
is the community
itself.
Community Action (Political
Science)
• Emphasizes the
realities of power-
sharing and decision-
making.
Community Action (Political
Science)
• Aids in the examination of the interaction
between interest groups within and outside
the community.
Community Action (Political
Science)
• Underscores the necessity for communities
to learn and understand the exercise of
power and the mobilization of the interest
of stakeholders.
Community Action (Political
Science)
• Social interaction
• Formation of alliances
• Prospects of competitions and conflicts in
the process of decision-making
• General power structure in the community
Community Development
• Is both a process and a
product
• Is a condition where the
capacity of people are
enhanced, thus,
allowing them to
participate in collective
action.
Community Development as a
Product
• “capacity of people
to work together to
address their
common interest.”
Community Development as a
Process
• it requires an integrative approach to
systematically assess the problem,
capacitate the community, and solve a
problem.
Process of Community
Development
• It involves
participation of big
segment of a
community
Process of Community
Development
• It is participated by
well informed
members
Process of Community
Development
• It results to decisions
made through a
consensus among
community
members;
Process of Community
Development
• It encourage group
building, leadership
development, and
capacity building among
community members
(process objective), while
addressing the issue at
hand (product objective)
Process of Community
Development
• It uses a systematical
approach in
addressing local
concerns;
Process of Community
Development
• It is an examination
of community
problems and issues
in its entirety, and
not as isolated and
independent cases.
Process of Community
Development
• It uses process that
are flexible and may
be applied to other
community concerns
and
Process of Community
Development
• It is initiated often as
a result of a potential
or locally perceived
crisis.
– Community development is pursued and achieved
when citizens, by virtue of their solidarity,
implement community action.
• Solidarity is crucial as
it strengthens the
bond and unites
people to act in a
concerted, collective
manner.
• Solidarity roots from
a sense of social
agreement and
shared
consciousness.
• Initiates and sustains
collective effort.
• Solidarity occurs
beyond the limits of
community, allowing
people from different
communities to express
support, even lend
capacities and
resources.
Lesson 3
ISSUES AND PROBLEMS OF
COMMUNITIES
Issue
• Is a subject matter
that people argue
about or discuss.
Community Problems
• Are conditions or
qualifications of
issues that are
undesired by
members of a
community.
What are the existing issues in
your community?
Lesson 3
CHARACTERISTICS OF A
COMMUNITY PROBLEM
Impact
• It has a direct and
adverse impact on a
community.
Duration
• It frequently occurs
Scope and Range
• It affects many
people within the
community and those
in proximal areas.
Severity
• It disrupts
community life
Equity
• It deprives people of
moral and legal
rights.
Perception
• It is perceived as a
problem by the
community.
• High incidence of
hunger
• Dilapidated sanitation
and drinking water
systems
• Poor housing
conditions
• Poor state of
community health
Structural problems force marginalized
communities to live under hazardous and
precarious conditions, where the quality of life
is very low and basic social services are
unavailable.
What is the community problem
in Payatas, Quezon City?
What are the actions done to
address the problem?
THANK YOU!
