Methodologies and Approaches of Community Actions and Involvements Across Disciplines
Methodologies and Approaches of Community Actions and Involvements Across Disciplines
Methodologies and Approaches of Community Actions and Involvements Across Disciplines
PERFORMANCE TASK
TOPIC: Partnership Building with Local Groups
Objective: The learners will be able to identify different groups with the community (i.e., community
based, government based, and faith based).
Discussion:
1. What is the purpose of forming partnerships?
• To bring about more effective and efficient delivery of programs and eliminate any unnecessary
duplication of effort.
• To pool resources.
• To increase communication among groups and break down stereotypes.
• To build networks and friendships.
• To revitalize wilting energies of members of groups who are trying to do too much alone.
• To plan and launch community-wide initiatives on a variety of issues.
• To develop and use political clout to gain services or other benefits for the community
• To create long-term, permanent social change.
• To obtain or provide services.
3. What are the different methods and approaches in building partnership in the community?
• Coordination
• Cooperation
• Collaboration
• Partnership
METHODOLOGIES AND APPROACHES OF COMMUNITY ACTIONS AND INVOLVEMENTS
ACROSS DISCIPLINES
1. Why do we need to perform an assessment?
*Community needs assessment is a process that describes the state of local people, enables
the identification of the actions needed and how to address these.
*A plan which delivers the most effective care to those in greatest need; applies the principles
of equity and social justice in practice;
1. Describe the makeup and history of the community to provide a context within which to
collect data on its current concerns.
a. Comment on the types of information that best describes the community (e.g.,
demographic, historical, political, civic participation, key leaders, past concerns, geographic,
assets)
b. Describe the sources of information used (e.g., public records, local people, internet, maps,
phone book, library, newspaper)
c. Comment on whether there are sufficient resources (e.g., time, personnel, resources)
available to collect this information
d. Assess the quality of the information
e. Describe the strengths and problems you heard about
4. (For each candidate problem/goal) Describe the evidence indicating whether the problem/goal
should be a priority issue, including:
a. The community-level indicators (e.g., rate of infant deaths or vehicle crashes) related to the
issue
b. How frequently the problem (or related behavior) occurs (e.g., number of youth reporting
alcohol use in the past 30 days)
c. How many people are affected by the problem and the severity of its effects
d. How feasible it is to address the issue
e. Possible impact and/or consequences of addressing the problem/goal
5. Describe the barriers and resources for addressing the identified issue(s), including:
a. Barriers or resistance to solving the problem or achieving the goal (e.g., denial or
discounting of the problem) and how they can be minimized (e.g., reframing the issue)
b. What resources and assets are available and how the group can tap into those resources to
address the issue
c. Community context or situation that might make it easier or more difficult to address this
issue
6. (Based on the assessment) Select and state the priority issue (or issues) to be addressed by
the group.
What are the things needed in each step?
- The things needed in each step are community profile, survey for needs assessment and
priority issue presentation.
- In each step the following should be done: describe the make-up history of the community,
describe what matters to people/stakeholders, describe the barriers and resources and select
priority issue.
Appendix D12.3.3
Appendix D13.1.1
B. THE ACTION OR IMPLEMENTATION PHASE
This phase is broken into a five- step process.
C. THE REFLECT PHASE
Here, the RM effort (strategy and action plan) is monitored and evaluated, specifically reporting
on successes and failures, and working through lessons learned, in order to tailor and refocus
RM initiatives to maximize success.
• It is focused on the relationships with Resource Providers, the skills, knowledge and capacity for
proper use of resources.
Following this concept, we can say that Resource Mobilization is:
Just a means to the end.
A team effort
A set of accountabilities shared by everyone onboard
A management process that has no quick fixes
A management process that involves identifying people who share the same values as your
organization and taking the steps to manage that relationship.
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION is not just about FUNDS and RAISING FUNDS.