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Lesson 3 Understanding Community Dynamics and Community Action

This document discusses community dynamics and action. It defines community as a social unit with shared characteristics. Communities can form based on geography or shared interests. They exist at both micro and macro levels. Community roles include consultation, planning, design, delivery, and implementation of activities. Community activities aim to engage members, support decision making, and better utilize resources through networks. Community action aims to understand, involve, and empower communities to provide services. Its objectives are to build social capacity, promote resiliency, prevent issues, and create wealth through employment and activities.

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Lesson 3 Understanding Community Dynamics and Community Action

This document discusses community dynamics and action. It defines community as a social unit with shared characteristics. Communities can form based on geography or shared interests. They exist at both micro and macro levels. Community roles include consultation, planning, design, delivery, and implementation of activities. Community activities aim to engage members, support decision making, and better utilize resources through networks. Community action aims to understand, involve, and empower communities to provide services. Its objectives are to build social capacity, promote resiliency, prevent issues, and create wealth through employment and activities.

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Understanding community

dynamics and community


action
Lesson 3
COMMUNITY
• Derived from the Latin word
“communis” which means
“common” or “shared”.
• It is a social unit composed of
people who have something in
common.
COMMUNITIES MAY BE
FORMED IN TWO WAYS
1. GEOGRAPHICAL
The members of the community share the
same geographic vicinity, such as s village,
province or neighborhood.

2. NON-GEOGRAPHICAL
There are communities formed based on
needs, ideas, interests, identity, practices and roles
in social institutions such as at home, at work, in
government, society or the community at large.
COMMUNITIES MAY ALSO BE
DIVIDED INTO TWO LEVELS
• MICRO LEVEL • MACRO LEVEL
Group is formed Large group affiliations
based on personal are formed such as
social ties national communities,
international
communities, and
virtual communities.
COMMUNITY’S DIVERSE
ROLES
1. Community consultation
2. Joint planning
3. Joint design
4. Joint delivery
5. Implementation of community- led
activities
TYPES OF COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES

Asset Community
Support
Engagement
Transfer in decision
needs of the
Making community
making Communit
Better use
y
of physical
Networks
resources
COMMUNITY ACTION
• It is any activity that aims to increase the
understanding, engagement, and empowerment
of communities for the intention of giving
services to people.
COMMUNITY
ACTION’S
OBJECTIVES
BUILDING COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCY
SOCIAL CAPACITY Through community action
Community actions will serve initiates, the community is
as an avenue for local citizens motivated to be able to
to share their knowledge, support itself, and face
skills, and ideas with one possible challenges.
another.

PREVENTION MAINTAINING AND


The members of the community CREATING WEALTH
will be able to prepare ahead of Community action focuses on
time because of the community helping people in the long term,
plans. Collaborations and and one significant way o do that
partnerships are achieved to is allowing people too pursue
prevent upcoming concerns. employment, or by developing
community exercises

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