Community
Engagement,
Solidarity,
& Citizenship
Community Action
Lesson 5
Objectives
• recognize the value of undertaking community
action modalities tthrough community
engagement, solidarity, and citizenship
• acknowledge interrelationship of self and
community in undertaking community action
Community Action
• It refers to collective efforts
done by people directed
towards addressing social
problems to achieve social
well-being.
Community
Action
• Tree planting is an example of
community action initiatives which
aims to promote environmental
awareness and prevention
program for natural disasters
such as flood.
Community
Engagement
Elements
of
Solidarity
Communit
y Action
Citizenship
Community
Engagement
• It refers to the process of developing partnerships and
sustaining relationships with and through groups of
people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest
for the purpose of working for the common good and
addressing issues that affect their well-being
Goals of Community Engagement
To build trust
To enlist new resources and allies
To create better communication
To improve overall health outcomes as successful
projects, evolve into lasting collaborations
Forms of Community Engagement
• Community Education
• Community Organization
• Deliberative Dialogue
• Engaged Research
• Direct Service
• Economic Development
Forms of Community Engagement
• Community Education - organization’s programs to
promote learning and social development work with
individuals and groups in their communities using a
range of formal and informal methods of education.
• Community Organization - aims at making desired
improvements to a community’s social health, well-
being and over-all functioning
Forms of Community Engagement
• Deliberative Dialogue - a group process that can help to
integrate and interpret scientific and contextual data for the
purpose of informing policy development (Culyer and Omas 2006),
among other objectives
• Engaged Research - describes a wide range of rigorous research
approaches and methodologies that shared a common interest in
collaborative engagement with the community and aim to improve,
understand or investigate an issue of public interest or concern,
including societal challenges
Forms of Community Engagement
• Direct Service – service that directly affects the
persons, animals, or places we want to impact
• Economic Development – process by which the
economic well-being and quality of life of a nation,
region or local community has improved according to
targeted goals and objectives
Solidarity
• It is defined as a unity or
agreement of feeling or
action, especially among
individuals with a common
interest and mutual support
within a group.
Solidarity
• It is the bond that unites
the community member to
engage and participate in
the community with the
same interest.
Citizenship
• It is defined as legal status
defined by civil, political,
and social rights.
Citizenship
We involve ourselves
Being a citizen to different activities
requires us to have in the community
moral obligations because we are
with our bounded by the
community to build duties and
a peaceful and obligations as
humane society. citizens.
Citizenship
• The implementation of simple
projects in our community such
as outreach programs for
underprivileged children, waste
segregation, etc., are actions
that fulfill our civic obligation as
citizen.
Am I willing to engage
myself in the community?
Interrelationship of
Self and Community
• If there is a problem affecting the
community, members are the ones
directly experiencing the problem. They
create and make solutions about it.
• We, members, involve ourselves as an
individual through engaging in the
community and be a part of the solution.
Scenario
• A barangay wanted to end malnutrition rate among children.
• The interest to help the barangay to end malnutrition rate is
not only the concern of few people but of a large number of
constituents. People affected must get united by the problem
to get involved in making solutions. This enable to fasten the
implementation of intervention projects. Hence, solidarity
creates an environment in which mutual service is
encouraged.
To show solidarity in the community, here are
some of the roles you can have to involve yourself:
Get Donate Volunteer
Get involved Donate Volunteer to
in planning money or staff the
processes help with a office,
like creating fundraising answer
goals or effort phones, put
defining the together
problem mass
To show Doing research, writing grant
solidarity proposals, or handling
in the correspondence
community, Attend public events like
community hearings, or
here are fundraising events
some of the Serve on committees that focus
roles you on specific problems or activities
can have to
involve Take leadership roles in a
yourself: community partnership
Volunteerism
• It is a basic expression of human relationships.
• It is about people’s need to participate in their societies
and to feel that they matter to others.
• Volunteers have come to the forefront in helping with
natural disasters, advancing human rights, and
touching lives to eliminate poverty, and improve basic
health and education.
Identify possible role wherein you can participate
in the following community activities
• Barangay Health and Sanitation Program
• Sangguniang Kabataan Election
