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    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) is a social development approach aimed at empowering communities by making them self-reliant and able to identify and work towards solutions for their own problems. COPAR follows critical steps to educate community members, work with them collectively, and mobilize them to take action on community health issues. The COPAR process involves four phases: pre-entry to select community sites; entry to integrate with the community; organization-building to establish community groups; and sustenance/strengthening for communities to continue addressing their own needs.

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    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) is a social development approach aimed at empowering communities by making them self-reliant and able to identify and work towards solutions for their own problems. COPAR follows critical steps to educate community members, work with them collectively, and mobilize them to take action on community health issues. The COPAR process involves four phases: pre-entry to select community sites; entry to integrate with the community; organization-building to establish community groups; and sustenance/strengthening for communities to continue addressing their own needs.

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    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) is a social development approach aimed at empowering communities by making them self-reliant and able to identify and work towards solutions for their own problems. COPAR follows critical steps to educate community members, work with them collectively, and mobilize them to take action on community health issues. The COPAR process involves four phases: pre-entry to select community sites; entry to integrate with the community; organization-building to establish community groups; and sustenance/strengthening for communities to continue addressing their own needs.

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    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) is a social development approach aimed at empowering communities by making them self-reliant and able to identify and work towards solutions for their own problems. COPAR follows critical steps to educate community members, work with them collectively, and mobilize them to take action on community health issues. The COPAR process involves four phases: pre-entry to select community sites; entry to integrate with the community; organization-building to establish community groups; and sustenance/strengthening for communities to continue addressing their own needs.

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    COPAR aims to transform apathetic communities into dynamic and participatory ones through community organizing and action research. It maximizes community participation and involvement in selecting and supporting community health workers.

    The principles of COPAR are that communities, especially the most oppressed sectors, have the capacity for change; COPAR should be based on the interests of the poorest community members; and COPAR should lead to self-reliant communities.

    The phases of the COPAR process are pre-entry, entry, organization-building, and sustenance/strengthening. The entry phase involves integrating with the community through participation in daily life and conducting social investigations. The organization-building phase involves forming community groups and committees.

    COPAR

    COPAR (Community Organizing Participatory Action Research) is a social development


    approach that aims to transform the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic,
    participatory and politically responsive community.

    IMPORTANCE OF COPAR

    COPAR is an important tool for community development and people empowerment as this helps
    the community workers to generate community participation in development activities. COPAR
    prepares people to eventually take over the management of a development program in the
    future.
    COPAR maximizes community participation and involvement: community resources are
    mobilized for health development services.

    PRINCIPLES:

    1. People especially the most oppressed, exploited and deprived sectors are open to change,
    have the capacity to change and are able to bring about change.
    2. COPAR should be based on the interest of the poorest sector of the community.
    3. COPAR should lead to a self-reliant community and society.

    CRITICAL STEPS (ACTIVITIES):

    1. Integration
    2. Social Investigation
    3. Tentative program planning
    4.Groundwork
    5. The meeting
    6. Role Play
    7. Mobilization or action
    8. Evaluation
    9. Reflection
    10. Organization

    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (HRDP III-COPAR) is developed to make


    health services accessible and available for depressed and underserved communities in the
    Philippines.

    Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR) - is a continuous and a


    sustained process of:
    1. Educating the people - to understand and develop their critical consiousness
    2. Working with people - to work collectively and effectively on their immediate and long
    term problems
    3. Mobilizing with people - develop their capability and readiness to respond, take action on
    their immediate needs towards solving the long term problems
    The process and structure through which members of a community are/or become organized for
    participation in health care and community development activities

    Process:
    - the sequence of steps whereby members of a community come together to critically assess to
    evaluate community conditions and work together to improve those conditions.

    Structure:
    - refers to a particular group of community members that work together for a common health
    and health related goals.
    Emphasis of COPAR:

    1. Community working to solve its own problem


    2. Direction is established internally and externally
    3. Development and implementation of a specific project less important than the
    development of the capacity of the community to establish the project
    4. Consciousness raising involves perceiving health and medical care within the total
    structure of society

    Importance of COPAR:

    • COPAR maximizes community participation and involvement


    • COPAR could be an alternative in situations wherein health interventions in Public
    Health Care do not require direct involvement of modern medical practitioners
    • COPAR gets people actively involved in selection and support of community health
    workers
    • Through COPAR, community resources are mobilized for selected health services
    • COPAR improves both projects effectiveness during implementation

    Phases of COPAR Process:

    1. Pre-Entry Phase - is the initial phase of the organizing process where the community
    organizer looks for communities to serve and help. Activities include:
    Preparation of the Institution

    • Train faculty and students in COPAR.


    • Formulate plans for institutionalizing COPAR.
    • Revise/enrich curriculum and immersion program.
    • Coordinate participants of other departments.
    Site Selection

    • Initial networking with local government.


    • Conduct preliminary special investigation.
    • Make long/short list of potential communities.
    • Do ocular survey of listed communities.
    Criteria for Initial Site Selection

    • Must have a population of 100-200 families.


    • Economically depressed.
    • No strong resistance from the community.
    • No serious peace and order problem.
    • No similar group or organization holding the same program.
    Identifying Potential Municipalities

    • Make long/short list.


    Identifying Potential Barangay

    • Do the same process as in selecting municipality.


    • Consult key informants and residents.
    • Coordinate with local government and NGOs for future activities.
    Choosing Final Barangay

    • Conduct informal interviews with community residents and key informants.


    • Determine the need of the program in the community.
    • Take note of political development.
    • Develop community profiles for secondary data.
    • Develop survey tools.
    • Pay courtesy call to community leaders.
    • Choose foster families based on guidelines.
    Identifying Host Family

    • House is strategically located in the community.


    • Should not belong to the rich segment.
    • Respected by both formal and informal leaders.
    • Neighbors are not hesitant to enter the house.
    • No member of the host family should be moving out in the community.

    2. Entry Phase - sometimes called the social preparation phase. Is crucial in determining which
    strategies for organizing would suit the chosen community. Success of the activities depend on
    how much the community organizers has integrated with the commuity.
    Guidelines for Entry

    • Recognize the role of local authorities by paying them visits to inform their
    presence and activities.
    • Her appearance, speech, behavior and lifestyle should be in keeping with those
    of the community residents without disregard of their being role model.
    • Avoid raising the consciousness of the community residents; adopt a low-key
    profile.
    Activities in the Entry Phase

    • Integration - establishing rapport with the people in continuing effort to imbibe


    community life.
    • living with the community
    • seek out to converse with people where they usually congregate
    • lend a hand in household chores
    • avoid gambling and drinking
    • Deepening social investigation/community study
    • verification and enrichment of data collected from initial survey
    • conduct baseline survey by students, results relayed through community
    assembly
    Core Group Formation

    • Leader spotting through sociogram.


    Key persons - approached by most people
    Opinion leader - approach by key persons
    Isolates - never or hardly consulted

    3. Organization-building Phase
    Entails the formation of more formal structure and the inclusion of more formal procedure of
    planning, implementing, and evaluating community-wise activities. It is at this phase where the
    organized leaders or groups are being given training (formal, informal, OJT) to develop their
    style in managing their own concerns/programs.
    Key Activities

    • Community Health Organization (CHO)


    • preparation of legal requirements
    • guidelines in the organization of the CHO by the core group
    • election of officers
    • Research Team Committee
    • Planning Committee
    • Health Committee Organization
    • Others
    • Formation of by-laws by the CHO

    4. Sustenance and Strengthening Phase


    Occurs when the community organization has already been established and the community
    members are already actively participating in community-wide undertakings. At this point, the
    different committees setup in the organization-building phase are already expected to be
    functioning by way of planning, implementing and evaluating their own programs, with the
    overall guidance from the community-wide organization.

    Key Activities

    • Training of CHO for monitoring and implementing of community health program.


    • Identification of secondary leaders.
    • Linkaging and networking.
    • Conduct of mobilization on health and development concerns.
    • Implementation of livelihood projects.

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