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    A. Community Organization

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    Community organization is a method of development that involves educating people about critical issues, working collectively to meet needs, and mobilizing communities to take action. It is based on democratic processes, scientific methods, and communication. The basic assumptions are that people have potential for change, want change, and can change through their own efforts. Objectives include raising awareness of poverty, forming structures to uphold rights, initiating changes, and helping communities develop awareness of their capabilities. Guiding principles are trusting communities, ensuring critical participation, responsibility for change lies with people, avoiding false hopes, and starting where communities are.

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    Community organization is a method of development that involves educating people about critical issues, working collectively to meet needs, and mobilizing communities to take action. It is based on democratic processes, scientific methods, and communication. The basic assumptions are that people have potential for change, want change, and can change through their own efforts. Objectives include raising awareness of poverty, forming structures to uphold rights, initiating changes, and helping communities develop awareness of their capabilities. Guiding principles are trusting communities, ensuring critical participation, responsibility for change lies with people, avoiding false hopes, and starting where communities are.

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    Community organization is a method of development that involves educating people about critical issues, working collectively to meet needs, and mobilizing communities to take action. It is based on democratic processes, scientific methods, and communication. The basic assumptions are that people have potential for change, want change, and can change through their own efforts. Objectives include raising awareness of poverty, forming structures to uphold rights, initiating changes, and helping communities develop awareness of their capabilities. Guiding principles are trusting communities, ensuring critical participation, responsibility for change lies with people, avoiding false hopes, and starting where communities are.

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    A. Community Organization

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    Cymbeline Siena-Martinez
    Community organization is a method of development that involves educating people about critical issues, working collectively to meet needs, and mobilizing communities to take action. It is based on democratic processes, scientific methods, and communication. The basic assumptions are that people have potential for change, want change, and can change through their own efforts. Objectives include raising awareness of poverty, forming structures to uphold rights, initiating changes, and helping communities develop awareness of their capabilities. Guiding principles are trusting communities, ensuring critical participation, responsibility for change lies with people, avoiding false hopes, and starting where communities are.

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    COMMUNITY

    ORGANIZATION

    By: Cymbeline S. Martinez


    Palawan State University
    COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    • Method, process, approach to development, program
    strategy
    • Sustained process of:
    – Educating people to develop critical
    consciousness
    – Working with people to work collectively
    and efficiently towards meeting needs
    – Mobilizing people to develop their
    capacities and readiness to take action
    Values of CO
    •Commitment to the democratic process and
    inherent worth and dignity
    • Commitment to scientific method
    • Commitment to communication as basis to
    understanding of a group
    • Self determination
    • Belief in the ability of people to change
    • Commitment to social justice
    Basic Assumptions

    • People have potential and capacities for


    change
    • People want change and can change
    • People brought by people’s own effort and
    permanence than imposed ones
    • Wholistic perspective on change
    •People’s participation and collective action
    necessary in any program that concerns
    them all
    • Skills in participation and democratic
    can be taught and learned by individuals
    and group
    • Planning, coordination, and integration of
    social welfare provisions and services and
    programs is necessary, human welfare
    provisions, services and programs are
    interdependent .
    • Organizing aims to establish a democratic
    organization
    • People need help in organizing
    OBJECTIVES OF CO

    – Continuously raise people’s awareness


    about their poverty situation in order
    to effect social change
    – Form structures or mechanisms that
    uphold basic rights and interest
    – Initiate actions that will bring about
    changes in the community and group
    relationship
    – Help people develop awareness of their
    potentials and harness human and
    materials resources to pursue programs
    meant to improve their quality of life
    Guiding Principles in CO

    • Trust in the people


    • Critical and active participation is crucial
    element to people’s empowerment
    • The responsibility to direct change lies
    with the people and not with the
    organizer
    • Avoid raising expectations and false hopes
    to the people for it only reinforce their
    negative

    • CO is not an end in itself, it is a means to


    achieve just and humane society

    • Organizing work is biased for the poor


    • Start where the people are, with their
    needs, resources and capabilities

    • People’s participation should be geared


    towards the promotion and interest of
    the greater majority

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