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Operational Framework of Community Organizing Process

The document outlines the steps of a community organizing process: 1. The awakening stage focuses on raising awareness of community issues and developing commitment to address problems. 2. The empowerment stage builds skills and capabilities for participatory planning, implementation, and evaluation of projects to solve issues. 3. The restructuring stage establishes people-initiated structures to continue managing projects and maintain progress.

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Operational Framework of Community Organizing Process

The document outlines the steps of a community organizing process: 1. The awakening stage focuses on raising awareness of community issues and developing commitment to address problems. 2. The empowerment stage builds skills and capabilities for participatory planning, implementation, and evaluation of projects to solve issues. 3. The restructuring stage establishes people-initiated structures to continue managing projects and maintain progress.

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OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROCESS

Awakening Stage focuses on developing the client-beneficiaries awareness on the realities obtaining in the environment.

This is considered a crucial stage in arousing the peoples interest on and developing commitment to do something about their situation, especially common problems and needs.

AWAKENING STAGE

Problem Identification People look into a present problem affecting their lives. People identify the resources available.

Observation ocular survey Study the existing records Orientation with barangay captain/leaders Home visitation/informal conversation with the people

AWAKENING STAGE

Problem Analysis What are the causes of problems? Participatory analysis of problems in the community assembly Ranking of problems according to priority, participatory ranking of problems and needs during the community assembly Goal Setting of changed target according to ranked problems

Planning the steps or action to be taken to solve the problem.

EMPOWERMENT STAGE

Concerns itself with building the clientbeneficiaries capabilities and skills on how to go about doing concrete action to combat their difficulties. Participatory planning Participatory implementation

Technical trainings

EMPOWERMENT STAGE

Participatory Implementation

Leadership/Organizational trainings Project management trainings Resources mobilization Project Program Implementation

EMPOWERMENT STAGE

Participatory monitoring and evaluation

People are provided with necessary knowledge and skills to carry out planned change, farm planning and budgeting, etc. People are provided opportunities to plan, implement and evaluate their projects geared towards the solution of their problems. People organize themselves to participate collectively in planned activities.

RESTRUCTURING STAGE

Gives focus on the setting up and/or strengthening of peoples initiated structures that would carry out planned action, which could be undertaken to meet needs and/or problems

RESTRUCTURING STAGE

People set up structures/system committees, council unit leaders, etc., to continue and oversee the change process. People establish new relationships/linkages, with change agents/development workers, government organizations (GOs), local government units (LGUs), and non-government organizations (NGOs).

RESTRUCTURING STAGE

Can manage own project and can stand alone. The community or organization helps trained leaders who can lead the group in understanding planned activities.

Steps in Community Organizing


1. Entry into the community. Purpose:

a. To introduce the COs to local officials;


b. To inform the local authorities on the project, its objectives and the nature of the Cos stay in the community

Component Activities: a. Adapting a lifestyle in keeping with the community. b. Choosing an appropriate place or family to stay with

Steps in Community Organizing


2. Integration with people. Purpose:

a. To imbibe community life and get to know the culture, economy, leadership, history and lifestyle of people.
b. To establish rapport with the people a and build mutual trust and cooperation. c. To allow COs to be one with people and learn or understand the peoples problem.

Component Activities:
a. Participation of COs in economic activities, household work, group discussion, social functions

Steps in Community Organizing


3. Social Investigation Purpose:

a. To systematically acquire information and analyze the political and socio-cultural structure of the community.
b. To identify issues around which to organize the people

Component Activities:
a. Gathering and reviewing secondary data sources such as records and documents. b. Holding personal interviews c.Conducting a survey d. Observing people and their environment

Steps in Community Organizing


4. Problem Identification and Analysis Purpose:

a. To identify, analyze and rank the problems and needs.

Component Activities:
a. Identification of the scope and degree of the problem. b. Investigation of past efforts to solve the problem c. Analysis of the origin of the problem

d. Identification of factors that maintain increase or eliminate the problem.


e. Undertaking consequences analysis

Steps in Community Organizing


5. Planning and strategizing Purpose:

a. To translate goals and objectives into specific activities top solve community problems.

Component Activities:
a. Problems Identification. b. Identifying resources c. Formulation of possible solutions d. Setting plans of actions

Steps in Community Organizing


6. Core-group formation
Purpose: a. To form a small group of potential leaders to assist the COs in organizing and mobilizing the community.

Component Activities:
a. Identification of contacts and political leaders in the community. b. Conduct of training in leadership and organizing with the core group members as participants.

Steps in Community Organizing


7. Organization Development and Mobilization

Purpose: a. To facilitate wider participation and collective action on issues and problems concerning the community. Component Activities: a. Setting up a formal organizational structure.

b. Mobilization of community effort or action to solve community problems.

Steps in Community Organizing


8. Evaluation and Reflection

Purpose:
a. To review the course of action that has been undertaken to solve community problems Component Activities: a. Holding of workshops, dialogues,etc.

Steps in Community Organizing


9. Turn-over and Phase-out
Purpose: a. To transfer the Cos roles and responsibilities to the organization as soon as the latter is ready or fully prepared to handle the responsibilities. Component Activities: a. The Cos may shift to a supportive role in monitoring, consultation and evaluation.

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