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    Strategies of Empowerment and Advocacy of A Community

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    The document discusses strategies for empowering and advocating for community action initiatives. It defines community action as putting communities at the center of service development and delivery to improve community well-being through socialization and meeting local needs. An empowered community action initiative aims to address oppressive social arrangements and allow excluded groups to participate in decision-making through advocacy. It outlines four stages for community action initiatives: initiation, organization, strategy development, and recruitment/mobilization. Key strategies include securing strong leadership, conducting a needs assessment, establishing structure, engaging stakeholders, and creating a strategic plan.

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    The document discusses strategies for empowering and advocating for community action initiatives. It defines community action as putting communities at the center of service development and delivery to improve community well-being through socialization and meeting local needs. An empowered community action initiative aims to address oppressive social arrangements and allow excluded groups to participate in decision-making through advocacy. It outlines four stages for community action initiatives: initiation, organization, strategy development, and recruitment/mobilization. Key strategies include securing strong leadership, conducting a needs assessment, establishing structure, engaging stakeholders, and creating a strategic plan.

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    The document discusses strategies for empowering and advocating for community action initiatives. It defines community action as putting communities at the center of service development and delivery to improve community well-being through socialization and meeting local needs. An empowered community action initiative aims to address oppressive social arrangements and allow excluded groups to participate in decision-making through advocacy. It outlines four stages for community action initiatives: initiation, organization, strategy development, and recruitment/mobilization. Key strategies include securing strong leadership, conducting a needs assessment, establishing structure, engaging stakeholders, and creating a strategic plan.

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    The document discusses strategies for empowering and advocating for community action initiatives. It defines community action as putting communities at the center of service development and delivery to improve community well-being through socialization and meeting local needs. An empowered community action initiative aims to address oppressive social arrangements and allow excluded groups to participate in decision-making through advocacy. It outlines four stages for community action initiatives: initiation, organization, strategy development, and recruitment/mobilization. Key strategies include securing strong leadership, conducting a needs assessment, establishing structure, engaging stakeholders, and creating a strategic plan.

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    STRATEGIES OF

    EMPOWERMENT AND
    ADVOCACY
    6.53 OF A
    COMMUNITY ACTION
    INITIATIVE
    Reported by Romarate and Solutan
    What is…
    COMMUNITY ACTION
    - (week 1) Putting communities as the center of the
    services development and services delivery. This helps
    the community dynamics or the degree of
    improvement of the community

    - Is the process of building social relationships in pursuit


    of common community interests and maintaining local
    life (Wilkinson, 1991).

    - The foundation of the community development


    progress

    - Encompasses deliberate and positive efforts designed


    to meet the general needs of all local residents

    In essence: it is a central component of community


    and social well-being. Solidarity through
    socialization and interaction between diverse
    groups with needs is how it can be maximized.
    Therefore…
    A COMMUNITY ACTION
    INITIATIVE
    - Follows three core values and
    principles
    - Human rights
    - Social equity
    - Gender equality
    - Participatory development
    And furthermore…
    AN ‘EMPOWERED’ COMMUNITY ACTION
    INITIATIVE
    - Aims to address and change the oppressive social
    arrangements that exclude people without power
    from accessing resources or participating in effective
    decision-making that relate to their lives so that they
    can be active in public policy debates and political
    decision (Baines, 2007; Mullaly, 2010)

    - Assumes both an individual and group willingness


    to redress and refigure power imbalances informed
    by a social justice agenda

    In essence: empowerment through advocacy will allow


    community action initiatives to take on its own life and
    highlights the collaborative nature of groups of people
    STRATEGIES
    Securing Strong Leadership Conduct a Needs Assessment
    These leadership type individuals must be Conducted through surveys or
    established questionnaires wherein the results will
    serve as the basis for future decision-
    Establish Formal Structure making

    These are organizational charts,


    committees, rules, laws, policies, policy Create a Strategic Plan
    statements Must lay out a clear road to people
    empowerment
    Engage the Stakeholders
    Includes general public, representative
    assemblies, government, donor and
    international financial institutions, civil
    society, and to private sector at national,
    intermediate and local levels,
    UNDERGOING STAGES
    First stage: INITIATION
    Promoting awareness, spread of interest by defining the issue as being a
    problem or need, discussing potential focus for a group action

    Second stage: ORGANIZATION OF SPONSORSHIP


    Addresses structures, organizations, and resources available within
    and outside a community

    Third stage: STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT


    Develops targets for action and identifies strategies for achieving
    community decided goals

    Fourth stage: RECRUITMENT AND MOBILIZATION


    This includes people, money, and materials
    SOURCES
    Community Work by Kieron Hatton (2015)
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/community-
    action

    Core Values and Principles of Community Action


    Initiatives by Maria Dalangin (September, 2022)
    https://www.slideshare.net/MariaDalangin/core-values-and-
    principles-of-community-action-initiativespdf
    ALL IN ALL
    Empowered Community Action
    Initiatives is necessary for
    addressing the needs of the
    community by reassessing and
    formulating strategies followed
    by the mobilization of a
    community’s forces for its
    betterment, advancement, and
    solidarity in a shared purpose.

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