COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT
SOLIDARITY AND
CITIZENSHIP
CHRISTINE P. TOLEDO –RAÑESES,LPT,RN,MBA,MAED,Ph. D.
SUBJECT TEACHER
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 COMMUNITY ACTION
•is any activity that increases the
understanding, engagement,
and empowerment of
communities in the design and
delivery of local services.
• It is about putting communities
at the heart of their own local
services which involves helping
the community to share,
knowledge, skills and ideas.
•Community action involves the
different core values and
principles which include human
rights, social equality, gender
equality, and participatory
development.
 HUMAN RIGHTS
•are universal and inalienable in
nature, which means all people
around the globe are entitled to
these rights. According to Nickel
(1992),
•“they exist and are available standards
of justification and criticism whether or
not they are recognized or
implemented by the legal system or
officials of a country.” these aim to
identify the basis for determining the
shape, content, and scope of
fundamental public norms.
For example, human rights
involve the three basic rights
• right to life,
• right to liberty, and
• right to property
 RIGHT TO LIFE
•is a moral principle based on the belief
that a human being has the right to live
and in a particular should not be killed
by another human being. Example
Abortion, every babies deserved to live
they have also a heartbeat.
RIGHT TO LIBERTY
•is the right of all persons to
freedom of their person -
freedom of movement and
freedom from arbitrary
detentions of others.
•Liberty may be deprived in terms of
administrative authorities wherein
it is necessary as in the case of
mentally disturbed persons. During
state of emergency or of disarray,
right to liberty may legally be
limited while intending to preserve
life
 RIGHT TO PROPERTY OR
RIGHT TO OWN PROPERTY

•is often classified as a

human right for natural
persons regarding their
possessions.
•A general recognition of a right to
private property is found more
rarely and is typically heavily
constrained insofar as property is
owned by legal persons and where it
is used for production rather than
consumption. Example slavery and
the exploitation of others
 SOCIAL EQUITY
• is defined as the equality and fairness in terms of the
treatment of human beings, access to resources, and
life chances. According to Global Issues Pilot Team (2011),
social justice is “a societal value which guides human
interaction and in particular, the fair distribution of society’s
benefits, advantages, and assets, not just by law and in the
courts by all aspects of society.” This involves the fairness in
distributing financial aids to the needy and impoverished.
Here is an example of a scenario in showing social equity.
• Olivia was teacher at a school. She is a lesbian and
began regularly experiencing homophobic taunts and
abuse by pupils at the school. This mainly took the
form of oral abuse, including the use of words such
as “dyke”. These incidents were reported to the
headteacher, who told her that taunts from pupils
were an accepted part of the job and she was in the
wrong job. The abuse continued and Olivia took sick
leave suffering from stress. She never returned to
work and eventually had to take ill-health retirement.
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GENDER EQUALITY
• also known as sexual equity, is the state
of equal ease of access to resources and
opportunities regardless of gender. It also
includes the state of valuing different
behaviors, and aspirations. Example of this
is the existence of gendered comfort room
 PARTICIPATORY
DEVELOPMENT
• is also included in the principles of action. As to the
definition of Tekman et al. 2012, participatory
development elicits the involvement of local population in
creating policies and in planning, implementing,
monitoring, and evaluating development programs and
projects that are designed to empower and help people
make effective choices. One concrete example of
participatory development is the attendance and
participation of the community during meetings and
assemblies.
• To sum up, community action initiatives must be guided by
principles and core values of social justice, human
rights, gender equality, and participatory development.
These community actions have a purpose, which is to enable
people to work in solidarity in addressing social
problems. However, it is important to involve the Filipino
youth in addressing these issues so that their communities
may benefit from their contributions, ideas, and energies.
• By the participation of the youth it can help organize, identify
and remove practices that hinder them to participate in
community development initiative. Doing so, will allow the
transition from non participatory practices toward a more
meaningful and higher level of youth participation.
EMPOWERM
ENT AND
ADVOCACY
OF
COMMUNITY-
ACTION
INITIATIVE
 EMPOWERMENT
•is a capacity of individuals to
make choices that can produce
the desired changes in their
social, economic, and political
lives.
•It is important that people be
empowered so that they will not be
depending on others for charity.
Empowerment, in varying degrees,
also involves the interplay between
the agency and the opportunity
structure
 EMPOWERMENT
ENCOMPASSES
• 1) having the ability to make one’s own decisions, to
control, to gain further control, to fight for one’s
rights, and to say something and be listened to; and
• 2) being free, independent, recognized and accepted
as equal citizens, who can make a difference (WHO
2010). These are the strategies of
empowerment: self confidence, positivity,
meditation, the people around you and priorities
 ADVOCACY
•involves fighting for the rights of
others and having their concerns
addressed by targeting people in
position of power.
•It is an act of supporting a cause
 THREE TYPES OF
ADVOCACY:

•systematic
•individual and
•self-advocacy.
 SYSTEMS ADVOCACY
•focuses on effort that shall change policies
at the local, national, or international
levels so that lasting changes will be
brought to the lives of groups or
individuals who share similar problems.
INDIVIDUAL ADVOCACY
•focuses on efforts that will
change the situation of an
individual and protect his or
her right
 SELF-ADVOCACY
•focuses on strengthening an individual’s
ability to communicate with other people,
and at the same time persuading and
convincing the individual to address his
or her own needs and rights.
WHAT IS COMMON AMONG THESE
ADVOCACIES?

• their goal of changing the status quo by

targeting decision-makers, leaders, or
policymakers who can affect positive change.
• advocacy work requires a carefully detailed
advocacy campaign, which follows a cyclical
procedure:
• Identifying a priority problem
• Gathering information
• Developing achievable aims and objectives
• Identifying the level of advocacy
• Identifying target people or groups
• Developing advocacy messages
• Identifying allies
• Identifying available resources
• Creating an action plan
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy work.
ADVOCACY STRATEGIES:
• ◆ Raising public awareness
• ◆ Use the media
• ◆ Eight questions that will guide your advocacy strategy
• ◆ Remember the relationship between online and offline activities.
• ◆ Consider the impact.
• ◆ Ensure your action step is front and center.
• ◆ Contact in the best way possible.
• ◆ Keep your friends close
• ◆ Be crystal clear.
• ◆ Continuously grow your supporter list
ASSESSMENT. TRUE OR FALSE:
T
• _______1. Empowerment involves the capacity of an
individual to make choices that can make changes in his life.
F Empowerment does not involve interplay of different
• _____2.
agency and opportunity structure.
T
• _______3. Participation of everyone is important in making
effects decision.
•
F
_______4. In promoting advocacy, there is no need to
persuade people to believe in you.
T
• _______5. Advocacy promotes changes in status quo of
individual’s perspectives
• Empowerment or Advocacy:
• Read carefully the statements below and determine whether the
statement being described is Empowerment or Advocacy. Write E
for Empowerment and A for Advocacy on the blank before each
number.

• ______1. It is the ability to make one’s own decision.

• ______2. It involves enhancing the capacity of an individual or
group to make purposive outcome.
• ______3. The act of pleading or arguing in favor of something.
• ______4. It involves fighting for the rights of others.
• ______5. It has three types: systemic, individual, and self.
• ______6. The goal is to change the status quo of people.
• ______7. It requires a carefully detailed advocacy plan.
• ______8. The process of becoming stronger and more
confident, especially in controlling one’s life and claiming
one’s right.
• ______9. Example of this is a non-profit organization that
works to help women of domestic abuse who feel too afraid
to speak for themselves.
• ______10. It includes five kinds of skills: Life Coping,
Manipulative,Intellectual,Communicative, and Artistic
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 MY NAME IS ZOLEKHA
• My name is Zolekha Khatun and I am 18 years old. I live with my 6 sisters and my
parents, In a village of Gaibandha districts. I have a vision impairment and when I
was a child, My parents tried to support me as much as they could. When I first
started going to school, The teacher said that I wouldn’t be able to read or write.
He said, ‘There’s nothing here for you.’ But I told them that I’d memorize it and I
managed to keep going, up to grade 4. The other students at the school wouldn’t
call me by my name at all. Instead day called me ‘kana’ which is very negative
slang word for a person who is blind. My friends would often say that I was too
much of a burden to go out with them. They didn’t want to have to do things like
help me with steps. They would say, Hey!, why do you want to come with us? You
will just cause problems! They had negative attitude towards me, I am involved
in a self help group, with 12 other people, And two of us have received some
training Because of the training I save enough money to get some ducklings,
Then when they are old enough, I sold them and brought a cow.
• My family now earns a little from the milk we sell. I used to be very shy
and quite, But now because of the training I am not afraid to talk to
anybody. I realize that we are all human and no one should be afraid to
anyone else. We received training about our rights, as people with
disabilities. Before, we didn’t know about things like social security, or our
legal rights. And, out of the 12 of us in the group, 11 didn’t have official
disability documentation which allows access to government benefits. We
confronted the deputy director of the district social service office. And he
finally gave us a commitment to give us the card. When I think about my
future, ill be ok, as long as my cow is generating an income. I’d also love
to learn Braille so that I could read and write. Because if I go anywhere,
and somebody ask me, I’d be able to write my parents name and also my
address. I could even get a job sowing, or work with a computer. Is there
any limit of what I could do?