Lesson 3.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship

General Academic Strand | Humanities and Social Sciences
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Have you seen or
participated in
bayanihan before?

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Bayanihan is a Filipino
cultural trait wherein
people volunteer to help
a family move to a new
place by literally
carrying the house to its
new location.

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Bayanihan or
the community
spirit of
Filipinos is
displayed in
various ways.

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An example of
community
spirit is the act
of volunteerism
whenever there
are crises
experienced in
the country.

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Bayanihan is an
example of
community
action and
community
engagement.

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 Learning
Competency
Recognize the value of undertaking community
action modalities (HUMSS_CSC12- IIId-g-7).

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Learning
Objective
Demonstrate an understanding of the social
science perspective and community action
initiatives.

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 Think-Pair-Listen-Share
Let’s
Connect
Get a partner and
have a short
conversation
concerning your
ideas and
experiences about
community
engagement.
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 1. Do you have any knowledge or experience
Let’s related to community engagement? How
Connect was your experience?

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 2. What did you like most about these
Let’s experiences?
Connect

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 3. If given the chance, what advocacies would
Let’s you volunteer for in the future? Why are
Connect you interested in these advocacies?

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Essential
Question

What are the different forms of community

action?

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 Community Engagement

Community engagement
is “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.” Military personnel partner with medical teams in providing health
education to remote areas in the country.
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 Community Engagement

Voluntary Organization
individual’s’ involvement
in voluntary work

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 Community Engagement

Citizen Participation
a practice wherein the members
use their skills and talents to
meet the collective goals of the
community

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 Community Engagement

Community Development
a collective action where
people voluntarily and
mutually cooperate to
improve the physical, social,
and economic conditions of
a community

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 Community Engagement

Community Development

grounded on human
rights, social justice,
respect for diversity,
and equality

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 Community Engagement

Community Development

supports communities and

improves their access to
opportunities and other
needs

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 Community Action Modalities

Community action
activities through
community engagement
can be implemented in
many different ways.

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 Community Action Modalities

Partnerships can be with

government agencies,
non-government
organizations (NGOs),
and the private sector.

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 Community Action Modalities

May include:
● Community organizing
● Community education
● Capacity building
● Community development
● Community service
● Research and advocacy

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

Participating in community
action activities has shown
positive outcomes, not
only through the results of
community engagement
initiatives but also through
the process itself.

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Facilitation of ➢ Improvement of physical,

community social, and economic
engagement conditions
● Improved sense of
community and
community competence
● Interpersonal benefits
● Coalition building

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Facilitation of
community
engagement
● Improved sense of ➢ Increased motivation and
community and confidence to participate
community competence
● Interpersonal benefits
● Coalition building

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Facilitation of
community
engagement
● Improved sense of
community and
community competence
● Interpersonal benefits ➢ Strengthens emotional
● Coalition building ties and social support

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Facilitation of
community
engagement
● Improved sense of
community and
community competence
● Interpersonal benefits
● Coalition building ➢ Improvement in leadership,
group cohesion
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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Identification of ➢ Partnerships and better

community needs and linkages guarantee
enhancement in efficient delivery of
delivering of social services.
services
● Increased community
involvement
● Academic and
research benefits
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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Identification of
community needs and ➢ Cultivates social cohesion or
enhancement in connectedness and solidarity
delivering of social ➢ Promotes “bonding” that
services strengthens relationships
● Increased community and trust in the social capital
involvement ➢ Involvement in planning that
● Academic and research leads to a sense of
benefits community feeling

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 Benefits of Community Engagement

● Identification of
community needs and
enhancement in
delivering of social
services
● Increased community
involvement ➢ Access to information and
resources for potential
● Academic and
research that would benefit
research benefits the whole community
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Check Your
Progress

As a student and as a member of the youth

sector, what do you think is the importance of
community engagement?

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 Impacts of Community Engagement

Empowerment Community
ownership also
● Serves as a platform for
refers to the
individuals’ voices to be heard
sense of being
● Cultivates a sense of control
responsible for
that leads to community
the development
ownership
of one’s
community.

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 Impacts of Community Engagement

Policy Change and Social

Change
● Improvement in existing The members of
policies in the community the community
● Community engagement is can be catalysts
about promoting the people’s for change.
own capacity for change.

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 Impacts of Community Engagement

Enhanced Community Well-

Being Community
● Community development development
● Transformation of social and =
economic conditions is made Enhanced well-
possible. being

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 Impacts of Community Engagement

Capacity Building

● Fosters learning and Learning new

development of skills needed skills is
for sustainable change necessary for
● Learning more about other sustainable
cultures reinforces social development.
exchange.

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 Impacts of Community Engagement

Personal and Collective

Efficacy Personal and
● Being able to help allows collective
volunteers to experience efficacies are
feelings of fulfillment, necessary in
individual confidence, and equipping for
competence. regeneration
activities.

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 Try This!

Think about one community action initiative present in

your local community. Describe this initiative following
Try
This! the given ideas below and on the next slides.

The name of the program is:

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 Try This!

Think about one community action initiative present in

your local community. Describe this initiative following
Try
This! the given ideas below and on the next slides.

The issues this program aims to address are:

1.
2.
3.

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 Try This!

Think about one community action initiative present in

your local community. Describe this initiative following
Try
This! the given ideas below and on the next slides.

I think this program is effective because...

1.
2.
3.

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 Try This!

Think about one community action initiative present in

your local community. Describe this initiative following
Try
This! the given ideas below and on the next slides.

I think this program has disadvantages like...

1.
2.
3.

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 Try This!

Think about one community action initiative present in

your local community. Describe this initiative following
Try
This! the given ideas below and on the next slides.

I think this program can further improve through..

1.
2.
3.

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 ● Community engagement is “the process of
Wrap-
Up
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.”
● Common and important elements in the
process of community engagement are
voluntary work, citizen participation, and
community development.
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Wrap-
Up
● Community action activities through
community engagement can be implemented
in many different ways and may vary according
to the type of community and issues to be
addressed. It can be through campaigns or
advocacies, research, or policymaking.

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Wrap-
Up ● The benefits of community engagement
include the following:
○ Facilitation of community development
○ Improved sense of community and
community competence
○ Interpersonal benefits
○ Coalition building

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Wrap-
Up ● The benefits of community engagement
include the following:
○ Identification of community needs and
enhancement in delivering social services
○ Increased community involvement
○ Academic and research benefits

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 ● The impacts of community engagement are
Wrap-
Up
the following:
○ Empowerment
○ Policy change and social change
○ Enhanced community well-being
○ Capacity building
○ Personal and collective efficacy

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Challenge
Yourself

Cite practical ways on how community

engagement empowers communities.
Explain your answer.

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Photo Credits

Slides no. 3 and 4: The modern bayanihan by dbgg1979 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.

Slides no. 5, 6, and 7:

Filipino volunteers help unload aid from an RAF C-130 flight in Guiuan, Eastern Visayas, Philippines by
DFID - UK Department for International Development is licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Flickr / Edited to cover brand
names.

Slide no. 10:

Education concept. student studying and brainstorming campus concept. close up of students discussing their subje
ct on books or textbooks. selective focus.
by midandi is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Freepik.com.

Slide no. 15: Having Fun with the Kids in Sitio Baybay by Philippine Mission is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 16: 130628-N-YU572-117 by Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) is licensed under
CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
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Photo Credits

Slide no. 18: 130417-N-VN372-001.jpg by COMSEVENTHFLT is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 21 and 22: Group of volunteers taking care together of donations by freepik is licensed under
CC BY-SA 4.0 via Freepik.com.

Slide no. 24: 131116-N-BX824-091.jpg by COMSEVENTHFLT is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Slide no. 25: Big family meeting by pch.vector is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Freepik.com.

Slide no. 28: Employees giving hands and helping colleagues to walk upstairs by pch.vector is licensed under
CC BY-SA 4.0 via Freepik.com.

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Photo Credits

Slide no. 29: A couple of man and woman insert the missing piece to connect the bridge by vectorarte is licensed
under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Freepik.com.

Slide no. 31: The company is engaged in joint search for ideas by maguraanna is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via
Freepik.com.

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