CESC

Module 1
Core Values

They are our guiding principles that dictate our behavior. They guide us with
what we feel, think, as well as how we behave.

Community values

Are the non-negotiable core principles or standards that the community's

citizens wish to maintain. They must be acknowledged, honored and
constantly defended to ensure that change and development occur in
accordance with these core principles and standards.

Core Values of Community Action?

1. Social Equity

2. Gender Equality

3. Human Rights

4. Participatory Development

Equity

It is the quality of being fair and impartial. Equity in schooling as ensuring that
differences in educational outcomes are not the result of differences in wealth,
income, power or possessions.

Social Equity

The fair, just and equitable management of all institutions serving the public
directly or by contract; and the fair and equitable distribution of public
services, and implementation of public policy; and the commitment to
promote fairness, justice and equity in the formation of public policy.

Equality
The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
Equality is defined as the condition of being equal, or the same in quality,
measure, esteem or value.

Gender Equality

Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights,

responsibilities and opportunities

Rights

A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain

way.

Human Rights

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex,
nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights are
universal and inalienable. All people everywhere in the world are entitled to
them.

Why is Human Right important?

- Ensures people have basic needs met

- Protects vulnerable groups from abuse

- Allow people to stand up to societal corruption

- Encourages freedom of speech and expression

- Gives people the freedom to practice their religion (or not practice any)

- Allows people to love who they choose

- Encourages equal work opportunities

- Gives people access to education

- Protects the environment

- Provides a universal standard that holds governments accountable

Define Development

Is a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the addition of

physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components.

Purpose of development?

The purpose of development is a rise in the level and quality of life of the
population, and the creation or expansion of local regional income and
employment opportunities, without damaging the resources of the
environment.

Participatory development

Is defined as a process, which actively and substantially involves people in all

decisions affecting their lives.

participatory Development important?

- It strengthens civil society and the economy by empowering groups,

communities, organizations to negotiate with institutions and bureaucracies,
thus influencing public policy and providing a check on the power of
government.

- Enhances the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of development

programs.

Module 2
Empowerment has different types (social, economic, political) domains
(society, market, state), and levels (local, intermediary, macro, super-macro).

Empowerment and participation reciprocate and fuel one another. But

before empowerment takes place, participation must first occur.

WHAT IS ADVOCACY?
Before direct action comes planning, and before planning comes an
understanding of what needs to be put in plan. So first, here's a reminder of
what advocacy is (as well as what it's not).

Empowerment and advocacy are social democratic practices that enable

people to overcome barriers and contribute focus on social justice.

Empowerment Strategies that will foster Personal Growth

Positivity

Self – confidence

Meditation

The people around you

Priorities

Principles of Community Action

 Opens doors and leads the way

 Turns hope into reality
 Empathize
 Treats people with respect
 Says “Yes”
 Gives a voice to the poor
 Mirrors the diversity of our communities

Module 3

The terms values, principles, and assumptions are sometimes used as if they
all mean the same thing – the underlying truths on which we base our
dealings with the world.

VALUES

Values are our guidelines for living and in choosing the right behavior.
PRINCIPLES

Principles are the fundamental scientific, logical, or moral/ethical “truths”

arising from experience, knowledge, and values on which we base our actions
and thinking.

ASSUMPTIONS

Assumptions are the next level of truths. The ones we feel to be irrelevant we
can take for granted, given the principles we have accepted.

Community Action is any activity that increases the understanding,

engagement, and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of
local services.

Community action is necessary because it focuses on putting communities at

the heart of their own local services.

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual
and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the
distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social
privileges.

Participatory Development

 Seeks to engage local populations in development projects.

 A process wherein stakeholders can influence and share control over
development.

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of
access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including
economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different
behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.

COMMUNITY ACTION is any activity that increases the

understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the

design and delivery of local services.

CORE VALUES and PRINCIPLES of community-action initiatives includes

Human Rights, Social Justice, Empowerment and Advocacy, Participatory

Development and Gender Equality.

HUMAN RIGHTS is defined as the supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to

life, to dignity, and to self-development. It is concerned with issue in both
areas of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights
founded on internationally accepted human rights obligations.

SOCIAL JUSTICE is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual
and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the
distribution of wealth, opportunities for personal activity, and social
privileges.

EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY are social democratic practices that

enable people to overcome barriers and contribute to practice and observe
social justice.

GENDER EQUALITY is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights
and opportunities across all sectors of the society.

Module 4
Partnership building - is a way for your organization to expand its capacity
and value across your expanding network of stakeholders.

Community profiling – a comprehensive description of the needs of a

population that is defined or defines itself, as a community, and the resources
that exist within that community carried out with the active involvement of
the community itself for the purpose of developing an action plan or other
means in improving the quality of life within the community.
Assessment - serves and identifies the available resources to address the
unmet needs of the community's most vulnerable residents.

Community Action Planning - The community action plan is one of the

participatory tools used to build the capacity of community members in taking
action in accordance with the problems, needs, and potentials of the
community.

Resource mobilization - refers to all activities involved in securing new and

additional resources for your organization. It also involves making better use
of, and maximizing existing resources.

Social action -is about people coming together to help improve their lives and
solve the problems that are important in their communities.

Evaluation - There are many good reasons for a community group to evaluate
its efforts.

• Collecting information about how things are done and its results help us
understand how community initiatives develop, offering lessons other groups
can profit from.

• Providing ongoing feedback can improve community work by encouraging

continuous adjustments of programs, policies, and other interventions.

• By involving community members, people who haven't had a voice may gain
the opportunity to better understand and improve local efforts.

• Finally, evaluation can help hold groups accountable to the community and
to the grant makers who provide funding. It can also help hold grant makers
accountable to the communities that they serve.