Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship new topic Short term and long term community initiative action.

2. Learning Objective:
Assess selected community action initiatives
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Identify the characteristics of short and long term
community action initiatives
Content:
Characteristics of Short and Long Term Community Action
Initiatives

3. What is the importance of solidarity
in community development?

4. Tableau: The class will be divided into four groups.
Each group will make a tableau of one of the
following scenarios”
1. Feeding Program
2. Clean Up drive
3. Livelihood Projects
4. Disaster Management

6. 1. Have you experience or participated in any of
the community activities?
2. How do you see the importance of these
activities in the community?

7. List of the characteristics of short and
long term community action initiatives in
terms of:
1. Budget
2. Resources
3. Impact
4. Scope

8. How do you see the importance of community
projects in your respective barangay?

9. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHORT-TERM & LONG-
TERM PROJECTS
by Tara Duggan

10. Budget
Short-term projects typically require less money to complete
than long-term efforts. An exception might occur for a short-
term disaster recovery effort or other unplanned event that
requires immediate, all-out attention. Because short-term
projects typically cost less, they usually require fewer
approvals to get started and completed. Short-term project
leaders may simply keep track of expenditures in a
spreadsheet, while larger, more complex projects might
require the use of more sophisticated accounting software
packages to track and monitor forecasting and spending.

11. Resources
The number of resources required for a short-term project
typically depends on the type of product or service being
developed. Short-term projects usually require specialized
expertise. For example, you might institute a short-term
project to analyze a recurring product problem and devise a
solution. Large, complicated product development projects
typically require numerous resources over the course of the
project life cycle to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close
the project.

12. Impact
Short-term projects typically have a limited impact. You may
initiate a project to handle a specific problem or react to a
situation. Once the problem is solved, the project team
disbands. Longer-term projects tend to have a larger impact on
the business, community or employees. For example, you might
institute a long-term project to analyze complex problems and
make sweeping changes that affect your entire company.
Project team members typically commit to working on the
project for the duration of the effort. This ensures consistency
and continuity.

13. Scope
Long-term projects tend to be complex. Project plans describe multiple
objectives, business needs and interdependent requirements. Long-
term projects may be divided into smaller projects to make them more
manageable and to produce more immediate results. Short-term
projects typically focus on a single goal. Evaluating short-term projects
requires less effort and analysis than larger projects. Your company
may require a formal scope statement for projects that last more than
a month. Establishing this type of governance ensures that the number
of features and requirements of the project is documented early on to
prevent miscommunication, misunderstandings and cost overruns
later.

14. In general, how do the characteristics of short
term and long term community projects differs
from one another?

15. Short term community projects use lesser budget,
minimal resources, limited impact, and scope.
While long-term community projects require
intensive budget planning, more resources are
needed, has a great impact and larger scope.

16. ¼ sheet of paper:
Give at least 3 examples of long- term and short-
term community projects.