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G12

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Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship

QUARTER 4: WEEK 5

Capsulized Self-Learning
Empowerment Toolkit

Schools Division Office of Zamboanga City

Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula
Zamboanga City

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CapSLET
Community engagement,
solidarity, and citizenship
Subject &
CESC-12 QUARTER 4 WEEK 5 DAY
Grade Level dd/mm/yyyy
Methodologies and Approaches of Community Actions and Involvements
CONTENT
Across Disciplines
MOST ESSENTIAL Formulate a community action.
LEARNING
COMPETENCY (HUMSS_CSC12-IVa-d-19)

IMPORTANT: Do not write on this material. Write your answers on separate sheets of clean
paper.

KNOW AND UNDERSTAND

CONTENT STANDARD:
The learner demonstrates understanding of the integration of social science
perspective and community action initiatives.
CHECKPOINT: How does one formulate a community action?
FORMULATING A COMMUNITY ACTION

Community Action

Community action refers to forms of collective mobilization where individuals or

groups come together to identify their own needs and determine their own forms of
action to meet those needs. A key component is that it sees the responsibility for
mobilizing to lie not just with those who are affected by an issue but with a broader
social network of people and organizations working together to affect positive change.
Community action might include mobilizing to provide local services, to campaign for
changes in policy or the law, or to raise awareness of an issue. Action normally takes
place at a community level and is often outside of the normal political framework.

Historically, 'community' has referred to groups of people living and/or working

in a similar geographic space. However, community is now used more broadly to refer
to groups, both big and small who share a common value, interest or characteristic.
Communities may exist across local and national borders and there are a growing
number of online communities who may only communicate and mobilize through the
internet.

In terms of community action, community refers to the group of people or

organizations who come together around a particular issue, or issues, and who share
a commitment to create change.

Steps in Community Action Plan

Community Data Collection
Community Data Examination
Community Data Exploration
Community Data Interpretation and Prioritization

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Definition of Social Action

According to Duncan Mitchel, “Action is social when the actor behaves in such
a manner that his action is intended to influence the action of one or more other
persons.”
Here the actor acts in presence of some social situation. While it is a continuously
occurring, group event spread in time and space and invites the attention of the actor
towards action. When one or more persons perform an action in presence of this
situation it is called social action. From this discussion we can conclude that:
It can be done by one or more persons;
It influences others;
It is performed in face of some social situation; and
It has its relationship with some social system the way that the actors are
interdependent upon one another.

Elements of Social Actions

According to Talcott Parsons, Social Action has FIVE (5) elements:

1. The actor. It is that individual who performs an act. The actor can be one or
more persons.
2. The goal. It is the aim or objective for which the action was done. Without goal,
an action is futile and baseless.
3. Social situation. The actor performs his role in presence of some situation.
While this situation is a continuously occurring group event spread in space and
time and this situation instigates the actor to action. To control the situation, he
does an act. Therefore, a situation is an agent of social action. There are two
types of situation controllable and uncontrollable situation.
4. Normative orientation. It is performed on some social pattern, custom. All
these forms are called norms of society. The pattern on which it is done is called
norm.
5. Energy. These require energy for its performance. Physical energy and training
are essential for an act.

Example of a Community Action Plan Template

PROJECT PERIOD DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORITY AREA

OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE

ANNUAL OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE SECTOR

OBJECTIVE

NUMBER OF PEOPLE
REACHED

ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY TITLE DESCRIPTION

ACQUISITION of Knowledge
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Tips in Collection and Examination of Community Action Plan

In data collection, there are questions that need to be answered in order to get
a general picture of where the community people are. Some of the basic questions are:
Where are you at right now?
Where do you want your community to be?
How do you want to get there?

These are some questions that are considered as “cornerstones of the process”.
They provide the framework of the community development process. The question on
people’s concerns will give you data on what would drive their actions. The question
on what community they want would give you data their vision and goal. The question
on how they will get there would give you an idea on what change process or projects
they want.

There are a variety of forms on community examination. These are some of

them:

1. SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis means scrutiny of the community or organization’s strength,
weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). The data would provide you with a
broader awareness of the community’s situation, and such awareness help in the
decision making and planning.

Example SWOT Analysis Template

Internal External
Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

2. EPC Systems Analysis

Other techniques would be the Economic, Political, and Cultural (EPC) Systems
Analysis. The EPC analysis is applied by dissecting the community into three
areas: economic, political, and cultural systems. Identify the causes, effects, and
interrelationships of these systems.

EXPLORATION OF COMMUNITY PROBLEMS

The exploration of community problems includes gathering of new data based

on the existing data. If you need to strengthen your database, you may go back to the
community and undertake further data gathering. The following are some techniques
that can be applied in exploring existing data.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING

Environmental scanning refers to the acquisition and use of data about

happenings, developments, and interactions in an organization’s external environment.
The knowledge gained from the process would serve as an input in the planning of the
organization (adapted from Aguilar, 1967, and Choo and Auster, 1993 as cited by Wei
Choo, 2001).

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Many organizations scan the environment in order to comprehend the external

forces to change so that they may cultivate effective answers which advance their
advantage position.

Guion (2010), provided a 10-point process of environmental scanning. This is

identified and described below.

Step 1: Make a situational analysis using secondary data.

A situational analysis provides the basis for identifying key issues and
setting program priorities (Caravella, 2006 as cited in Guion, 2010)

Step 2: List issues that are important based on secondary data.

This step refers to determining analysed needs. A community profile is
needed to conduct step #2 to assist them in organizing data to be able to
determine what will emerge as an area of concern.

Step 3: Make a situational analysis using primary data from major

stakeholder groups. This step refers to determining the prescribed
needs of key stakeholders, which are instrumental to the survival of the
community organization (Guion, 2010).

Step 4: Map citizen’s voice to obtain primary data from a cross-section of

the population. This step is a process that allows the members to hear
from as many citizens as possible.

Step 5: Collect primary data in each of the mapped areas.

Use any combination of community forums, focus groups, or surveys
(written, telephone, or web-based). This allows for a methodological
triangulation of the data on the community’s expressed needs.

Step 6: List issues that consistently surfaced as important in steps 2, 3,

and 5.

Step 7: Conduct external assets assessments.

Identify and assess assets of individuals and organizations. This
assessment is a means to identify untapped individual skills and talents,
as well as agencies or organizations that are already addressing some
aspect of the issue.

Step 8: Prioritize issues. Of those important issues, “priority issues” are those
linked most closely to strategic priorities.

Step 9: Examine the complexity and interdisciplinary nature of priority

issues.

Step 10: Identify priority issues. Information from the data base can be sorted
into reports that will help identify top –priority issues, assets, and
subsequent strategies.

Interpretation of Problems and Prioritization of Community Action

This step is the process of looking into the ideas that emerged in the earlier
activities or steps which will help clarify priorities for action. The analysis includes
looking into the patterns and gaps in community data, recognizing the common interest
of the people, and identifying local champions (Cavaye,n.d.).

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There are two ways to undertake the priorities for action.

1. Rational Prioritization- includes a process of weighing up pros and cons.
2. Prioritization by Motivation- involves people expressing personal motivation and
passion for an issue.

The next is to consider the feasibility of the people’s ideas. Take into
consideration the following:

1. Political Feasibility is the proposed project aligned with the local government
and organizational policies?
2. Financial Feasibility- Will it turn a profit and how quickly?
3. Logical Feasibility- Do you have the resources to fulfil the proposal? Does the
community have the necessary resources? Is there an appropriate
infrastructure?
4. Possibility of Implementation- Do you have the skills, money, and time?

COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT PLAN

Below is a discussion on the definition of a project, guiding principles in

community projects, project cycle, and community project plan derived from the CWTS
training Manual of the Center for Social Concern and Action (COSCA).

What is a Project?

A project is a set of interrelated activities undertaken by a group of people within

a specific period to achieve the objectives defined by the group. Its objective is to
improve the situation of the community.

What are the guiding principles in community projects?

1. Participative: People in the community must be involved in all stages of the

project cycle because they have the right to be involved in matters that affect
their lives.
2. Gender-Sensitive: The different needs of all genders in the community are
recognized.
3. Community-based: The activities are sensitive to the culture and practices of
the people in the community.
4. Sustainable: the benefits derived by the community from the project should
continue even if the project implementation is over.
5. Learning-oriented: The project ensures that the people involved have
meaningful experiences.

SAQ1: How does a community examination contribute to the shaping of a

community action plan?

SAQ2: In general, how do you formulate a community action plan?

Learner’s Name: _________________________________________ Date: ____________

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Grade/ Section: ____________________________________________________________

Name of Adviser: ___________________________________________________________
School: ____________________________________________________________________

BE ABLE TO DO
Formulate a community action.

Let’s Practice!

Activity 1: THINKING BLAST

(Individual Activity)

Directions:
Follow the instructions carefully. Write your chosen community project in a
narrative form.

“Planong Aksiyong Pangkomunidad”

Objective: To apply skills in the actual writing of a community plan.

Instructions:
1. Collect the necessary data.
2. Upon Collecting the necessary information about your chosen community, you
may now consolidate and examine the data.
3. Based on your examination, extract community problems and undertake
community exploration, interpretation, and prioritization.
4. Based on the result data prioritization, identify possible projects.
5. Choose a community project then make the community action plan for the
project.

Let’s Practice PaMore!

Activity 2: EPC Analysis

(Individual Activity)

Directions:
Answer the EPC Analysis based on the needs and situation of your own
community.

1. List down personal observations in the community, particularly the

economic, political, and cultural factors that affect the community.
2. Organize observable data in each system.

EPC Analysis
Economic Political Cultural

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Activity 3: JUMBLED WORDS

(Individual Activity)

Directions:
Answer the EPC Analysis based on the needs and situation of your own
community.

1. R O T C A

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

2. L A G O

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

3. C O I L A S N A T I O N O R I E T

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

4. A T I V E N O R M N A T I O N O R I E T

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

5. G E N E R Y

____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

REMEMBER
Key Points

Before the formulation of the project plan, it is important that you have an idea
of the whole project cycle. The activities include:
a. Situation Analysis/Evaluation
b. Generation of Project Ideas
c. Project Selection
d. Project Planning
e. Fund Sourcing
f. Project Implementation and Monitoring
g. Project Evaluation

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TRY
Let’s see how much have you learned today!

COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN (PROJECT PROPOSAL)

As a concern citizen in your community, identify a problem that has been

Directions: affecting the lives of the people where you live. Write a community action
plan using the format given below:

Format of the Project Proposal

1. General information
1.1 Project Site
1.2 Implementing group

2. Rationale
2.1 The context of the project-why are you implement ting this project? What is
the situation that prompted you to conceptualize the project?
2.2 The need for the project- Why do you need to implement a project like this?
Does it address community needs? How will your project address that
need?

3. Objectives
This section answers the question: What does your project hope to do?
Use SMART (Simple, Manageable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound)
objectives.

4. Factors affecting Project Implementation.

As student In the Community
Strengths weaknesses Opportunities Threats

5. Roles and responsibilities- Who are the parties involved? What are their roles?

6. Work plan Template

Activity Venue Time Expected Resources Budget Resources Person
Frame output needed Mobilization In
activity charge

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BOOK:
Ma. Lourdes F. Malagrito, PhD Cand. and Diana J. Mendoza, PhD, Zeal for Action Community
Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship, Quezon Ave., Quezon City PHOENIX PUBLISHING HOUSE INC.,
2016, 173-180

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:
Community Action
http://spl.ids.ac.uk/sexuality-and-social-justice-toolkit/3-what-you-can-do/community-action
REFERENCE
S Community Action Plan Template
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/programs/healthycommunitiesprogram/tools/change/pdf/captempl
ate.pdf

Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship

https://www.academia.edu/36784153/_1_Community_Engagement_Solidarity_and_Citizenship_CSC_Compendium_of_Appendic
es_for_DLPs_Class_F

Social Action: Definition and Elements

http://studylecturenotes.com/what-is-social-action-definition-types-elements-with-examples/

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CapSLET
Community Engagement,
Solidarity, and citizenship

Subject &
CESC-12 QUARTER 4 WEEK 5 DAY
Grade Level dd/mm/yyyy
Methodologies and Approaches of Community Actions and Involvements
CONTENT
Across Disciplines
MOST ESSENTIAL Formulate a community action.
LEARNING
COMPETENCY (HUMSS_CSC12-IVa-d-19)
ANSWER KEYS
Let’s Practice!

Activity 1: THINKING BLAST

Home – Based LoT (Individual Activity)

Answers: Student’s analysis may vary based on their community.

Let’s Practice PaMORE!

Activity 2: EPC Analysis

Home – Based LoT (Individual Activity)

Answers: Student’s analysis may vary based on their community.

Let’s Practice EVEN MORE!

Activity 3: JUMBLED WORDS

Home – Based LoT (Individual Activity)

Answers:
1. The actor. It is that individual who performs an act. The actor can be one or more persons.
2. The goal. It is the aim or objective for which the action was done. Without goal, an action is
futile and baseless.
3. Social situation. The actor performs his role in presence of some situation. While this situation
is a continuously occurring group event spread in space and time and this situation instigates
the actor to action. To control the situation, he does an act. Therefore, a situation is an agent of
social action. There are two types of situation controllable and uncontrollable situation.
4. Normative orientation. It is performed on some social pattern, custom. All these forms are
called norms of society. The pattern on which it is done is called norm.
5. Energy. These require energy for its performance. Physical energy and training are essential
for an act.
TRY
Answers:
COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN (PROJECT PROPOSAL)
Student’s analysis may vary based on their community.

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