METHODOLOGIES OF COMMUNITY ACTION Unlocking of Difficulties
Methodologies - a system of methods used in a
particular area of study or activity.
Humanitarian - concerned with or seeking to
promote human welfare. 1. PARTNERSHIP BUILDING WITH LOCAL GROUPS
Time changes. We no longer live in the command and
control era. Today, when it comes to quality decision making in critical planning and economic development issues, we live in the age of partnerships and collaborations. 2. COMMUNITY PROFILING
Community profiling involves building up a picture
of the nature, needs resources of a community with the active participation of that community. It is a useful first stage in any community planning process to establish a context which is widely agreed. 3. COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT A community needs assessment provides community leaders with a snapshot of local policies, systems, and environment change strategies currently to place and help to identify areas for improvement. With this data, communities can map out a course for health improvement by creating strategies to make positive and sustainable changes intheir communities. Components of Community Needs Assessment
Policy Change involves laws, regulations, rules, protocols and
procedures that are designed to guide or influence behavior.
System Change involves change that affects all community
components includin social norms of an organization, institution, or system. It may include a policy or environmental change strategy. Examples are implementing a national school lunch program across region, or ensuring hospital systems becomes tobacco free. Environmental Change is a type of change which relates to the physical, social, or economic factor designed to influence people's practices and behaviors. 4. WORKING WITH GROUP LEADERS: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITY ACTION
This is an experience of participation in political
action that can transform people, and shape their perceptions of themselves and their capacity to make a difference in the world. 5. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
Resource mobilization refers to all activities
involved in securing new and additional resources for the organization. It also involves making better use of and maximizing existing resources. Resource mobilization is critical to any organization for the following reasons: Ensures the continuation of your organization's service provision to clients. Supports organizational sustainability. Allows for the improvement and scale up of products and services the organization currently provides. Organizations both in the public and private sectors must be in the business of generating new business to stay in business. 6. SOCIAL ACTION Distinguishes community action research from various qualitative approaches is its explicit aim not only develop a greater understanding of the issues faced by the community but also to facilitate collective actions towards positive social change. Mobilization for community action and social change requires community members developing a greater awareness of both the socio-cultural conditions that supports the challenge they face and their own capacity to change those conditions. 7. EVALUATIONS
Evaluation is essential in order the community
education to establish if actions have been justified and appropriate. THE APPROACHES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS Participatory Approach - a range of activities with a common thread; enabling ordinary people to play an action and influential part in decision-making which affect their lives.
Community Based Approach is about humanitarian
assistance have "the right to participate in making decisions that affect to their lives" as well as "a right to information and transparency" from those responsible providing assistance. Asset Based Approach - a type of business valuation that focuses on a company's net asset value. There is some room of interpretation in terms of deciding which of the company's assets and liabilities to include in the valuation and how to measure the worth of each.
Area Based Approach - defined an, area rather than a
sector or target group primary entry point. This approach can be particularly appropriate if residents in an affected area face complex, inter-related, and multi-sectoral need. Community Economic Development - a field of study that actively elicits community involvement when working with government and private sectors to build strong communities, industries, and markets.
Welfare Approach - a typr of government support
intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Spiritual Psychosocial Approaches - concerned with that which is beyond ordinary perception of reality may be rooted.
Right Based Approach - focuses on repect for human
dignity. This approach holds that our dignity is based on our ability to choose freely how we live our lives, and that we have a moral right to respect for our choices as free, equal, and rational people, and a moral duty to respec others in the same way.