1. The Core Values And Guiding
Principles Of Community
Action
Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship

2. Community, Engagement, Solidarity, And Citizenship
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Objectives
Students Be Able To:
Explain The Core Values Of
Community Action
Promote Awareness Of
Human Rights In
Communities
Appraise The Value Of
Social Equity And Gender
Equality In The Context Of
Participatory Development
Analyze Strategies Of
Empowerment And
Advocacy Through
Community Action

3. Core Values
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are the fundamental beliefs of a person or
organization. These guiding principles
dictate behavior and can help people
understand the difference between right
and wrong.

4. SLIDE 4
The Core Values And Guiding Principles
Of Community Action
Human
Rights
Social
Justice
Empowerment
AndAdvocacy
Participatory
Development
Gender
Equality

5. Human Rights
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Are rights inherent in all human
beings whatever their nationality,
place of residence, sex, national
or ethnic origin, color, religion,
language, or any other status is.
We are all equally entitled to our
human rights without
discrimination

6. The Basic Human Rights
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1Right to life 2Right to Liberty 3Right to Property
• Right To Live
• Right To Safe Environment
• No Torture, ForceAnd
Violence
• Free Access ToCourt
• Right To Due Process Of
Law
1. Freedom Of Speech
2. Right Against Unreasonable
Searches And Seizure
3. Right To Information
4. Religious Freedom
5. Right To Bail
6. Right To Form Union
7. Right To Political Beliefs And
Aspirations.
“Universal Declaration Of
Human Rights”
Article 17 Every One Has A
Human Right To Own A
Property
Article 12 Every One Has
Human Life To Privacy And
Family Life

7. Social Justice
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Is a societal value which guides
human interaction and, in
particular, the fair distribution of
society’s benefits, advantages,
and assets. Social justice is
being equal under the law and
all aspects of society

8. Social Justice
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Jose P. Laurel defined social
justice as the humanization of laws
and equalization of social and
economic force by the state so that
justice may be at least be
approximated.
- Social Justice is enshrined in the
Philippine Constitution specifically
in Article XIII, Section 1 to
19.

9. Social Justice
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Social justice is a mandate of the
constitution which requires adoption of
the State of measure that will promote
the right of all people in equality of
opportunities in all human endeavor
and equitable sharing of socio-
economic benefits that will improve the
standard of living of the
underprivileged group of people

10. Principles Underlying Social Justice SLIDE10
1. Promotion of Equality Of Opportunity
2. Promotion of Full Employment and Equal Work
Opportunities
3. Promotion of the Right to Health
4. Respect and Recognition of People’s Organizations
5. Promotion of Humane Conditions of Work
6. Fair and Just Compensation
7. Participation in Policy and Decision-Making

11. Empowerment and Advocacy
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Is based on the idea that giving
people skills, resources, authority,
opportunity,
motivation, as well holding them
responsible and accountable for
outcomes of their actions, will
contribute to their competence and
satisfaction.

12. Two Categories of Empowerment SLIDE 12
• Individuals: building confidence, insight
and understanding, and developing
personal skills.
• Groups: building trust, cooperation and
communication between and among
members

13. Four Pillars of Community Engagement SLIDE 13
1. Information
2. Consultation
3. Involvement
4. Empowerment

14. Empowerment and Advocacy
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 Is the act or process of supporting
cause or proposal for enhancing
effective practices to improve
behavior.
 It enables the people to engage in
actions and activities that seek to
positively influence outcome
directly affecting the lives of the
people.

15. General principles of advocacy SLIDE 15
Advocacy is taking action to help people say what
they want, secure their rights, represent their
interests and obtain services they need. Advocates
and advocacy plans work in partnership with people
they support and take their side. Advocacy
promotes social inclusion, equality, fairness, and
social justice.

16. Participatory Development
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Is an approach to development that is
designed to enhance sustainability and self-
reliance to achieve social justice through
improvements in the quality of people’s
participation. The focal point of participatory
development is the qualitative enhancement
of participation in local societies which can
be defined as groups of rural communities
and as administrative and development
units.

17. Characteristics of Participatory Development
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• Cognitive – it generates new ways of
understanding community issues and problems.
• Political – It capacitates the powerless.
• Instrumental – It proposes alternative solutions.

18. Forms of Participatory Development
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Participation is at the minimum;
stakeholders are merely
informed about the plans and
progress of projects. The
people’s involvement hardly
goes past the discussion during
meetings.
Passive
Participatio
n

19. Forms of Participatory Development
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Stakeholders answer queries
posed by external researchers or
experts. The decision making
power remains in the hands of
external parties who ultimately
are not obliged to actually use
the stakeholders’ inputs
Participatio
n
by
Consultatio

20. Forms of Participatory Development
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Stakeholders with pre-
determined goals participate
during the discussion, analysis
and decision-making stage.
Participatio
n
by
Collaboratio

21. Forms of Participatory Development
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Stakeholders actively participate in the
process and its analysis. This features a joint
decision making process, wherein
stakeholders are considered equal co-
partners with the external experts. Most
significantly, control and ownership of the
process are in the hands of the primary
stakeholders.
Empowerme
nt
Participation

22. Gender Equality SLIDE 22
Also known as sex equality, gender egalitarianism,
sex equality or equality of the genders, is the view
that both men and women should receive equal
treatment and not to be discriminated against, based
solely on their gender. This is the objective of the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, which seeks to create equality in law and in
social institutions. In practice, gender equality is for
people to acquire equal treatment throughout a
society, in politics, in the workplace, or any other
policy-designated sphere.

23. Gender Equality SLIDE 23
Men often experience better opportunities, more freedom, and
higher social regard than women who share the same social
characteristics such as class origins, nationality, and age.
Men often hold more weight in marriages and other direct
relationships between men and women.
Men predominantly occupy social positions that possess
significantly political, legal, or cultural powers.

24. Gender Equality SLIDE 24
 does not denote that both genders are the same. It
emphasizes equality of women and men as humans
imbued with the same fundamental rights. Gender
equality recognizes that men and women are of
equal value and should be accorded equal treatment
and opportunities.