Community Organizing
Eastern Samar State University
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Borongan City
SUBJECT: ED 609 ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
TOPIC: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
REPORTER: AMADO B. TAMARES JR. M.A. IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
PROFESSOR: DR. VIOLETA A. AFABLE
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING |
DEFINITIONS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Community Organizing * Refers to the framework and methodology used by social development workers in empowering people’s organization as a way of addressing poverty and social inequality. * Defined as a social development approach that aims to transform the powerless and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community. * It is a participatory, systematic and sustained process of building people’s organizations by enhancing the capabilities and resources of the people for the resolution of their issues and concerns. * The process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the power of that constituency.
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING 1. People are motivated by their self-interest.
This is important to motivating involvement from the community that’s being organized. It’s also the key to developing effective strategies to pressure the opposition into giving up what the community wants.
2. Community organizing is a dynamic process that requires constant attention and effort.
It is impossible to use community organizing to get to ascertain point and stop, or to build a community organization up and then stop reaching out
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Borongan City
SUBJECT: ED 609 ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM
TOPIC: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
REPORTER: AMADO B. TAMARES JR. M.A. IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
PROFESSOR: DR. VIOLETA A. AFABLE
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING |
DEFINITIONS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Community Organizing * Refers to the framework and methodology used by social development workers in empowering people’s organization as a way of addressing poverty and social inequality. * Defined as a social development approach that aims to transform the powerless and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community. * It is a participatory, systematic and sustained process of building people’s organizations by enhancing the capabilities and resources of the people for the resolution of their issues and concerns. * The process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the power of that constituency.
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZING 1. People are motivated by their self-interest.
This is important to motivating involvement from the community that’s being organized. It’s also the key to developing effective strategies to pressure the opposition into giving up what the community wants.
2. Community organizing is a dynamic process that requires constant attention and effort.
It is impossible to use community organizing to get to ascertain point and stop, or to build a community organization up and then stop reaching out