COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY AND
CITIZENSHIP
Week 4
Objectives
A.
Write LTP (Long Term Project) if the given project is long term and
write STP (Short Term Project) if it is short term.
B.
Tell whether the given activities or projects are undertaken in the
respective barangay.
C.
Select one program or activity and give the advantage and disadvantage.
Review
Based on the following pictures, list down at
least five advantages for the community.
Topic
CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY-ACTION
INITIATIVES
What is Community-Action Initiatives
is an effort to involve residents, local groups and other organizations pursue
common goals as guided by the core values and principles of community
engagement, solidarity, and citizenship.
Putting the people together makes a community prosper
Why?
core values of community action initiatives.
1.
Human rights are universal and inalienable in nature, which means all
people around the globe are entitled to these rights.
2.
Social equity is the equality and fairness in terms of the treatment of
human beings, access to resources, and life chances.
3.
Gender equality also known as sexual equity, is the state of equal ease of
access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender.
4.
Participatory development elicits the involvement of local population in
creating policies and in planning, implementing, monitoring, and
evaluating development programs and projects that are designed to
empower and help people make effective choices.
what is your role
as a
youth/member of
the community?
ways for teens to be active in your community:
1. joining a local youth group (e.g. Girl Guides or Scouts Canada) or
an environmental group.)
2. coordinating or coaching junior sport.
3. volunteering at local festivals or community park clean-ups being
part of a youth advisory group in your community.
Guide questions
Thinking of what project that can be done in your community?
Are you planning for a long-term or a short-term project?
What is Short
term project
and Long term
Project?
1. Short-term projects
take a few hours, days, or weeks to complete.
Example:
A. clean up a local park
B. start a garden in your community
C. donate your old clothes
2. Long-term projects
take months or even years to finish. Sometimes that action needs to be
confrontational, to improve the lot of one group relative to another, and
sometimes it needs to be conciliatory, taking down the walls and bringing
people together as equals.
Example:
A. organize a campaign to raise money to buy and install new equipment for the
community
B. volunteer at a nature camp and teach kids about the environment
Activity
ACTIVITY 1. PROJECT IDENTIFICATION
Directions. On the blank, write LTP (Long Term Project) if the given project
is long term and write STP (Short Term Project) if it is short term.
• 1. Medical and Dental Mission
• 2. Community Gardening
• 3. Sports Festival
• 4. Feeding Program
• 5. Disaster Preparedness Program
• 6. Waste Management Program
• 7. Tree Planting and Growing Project
• 8. Family Recreational Activities
• 9. Community Livelihood Projects
• 10. Learning Tutorial for Street Children
Projects/Activities
ACTIVITY 2. COMMUNITYACTION INITIATIVES SURVEY
Directions. Tell whether the
given activities or projects
are undertaken in your
respective barangay by
putting a check in the column
opposite each.
1. Clean-Up Drive
2. Livelihood Program
3. Seminar Program (e.g. Teenage
Pregnancy, Family
Planning, Information drive about
COVID-19, etc.)
4. Drug and Crime Prevention
5. Gender and Development
Program
6. Tree Planting
7. Ecological Solid Waste
Management Program
8. Feeding Program
9. Disaster Preparedness
10. Youth Development Program
Evident Not
Evident
ACTIVITY 3. PROGRAM
FOR THE COMMUNITY
Directions. Select one
program or activity
enumerated from the
survey in exercise 2.
Discuss the advantage and
disadvantage of your
choice by using the
following table for your
answer.
_____________________________________
Name of Program/Activity
Advantage
Disadvantage
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
4.
4.
5.
5.
• ACTIVITY 4. SING IT OR WRITE IT?
Option 1: Compose a jingle reflecting on the core
values and principles of community-action
initiatives in your locality. Record your output using
your mobile phones and submit it to your subject
teacher for evaluation.