Community Action

1. Community Action
• is a manifestation of a collective grasp
and ownership of a situation that generally
has an effect on them.

2. Important Ingredients of Community
•Common Context
•Common Experience
•Common Understanding of an Issue
•Common Analysis
•An acceptable Standards
•An action that is acceptable to the community

3. The Ingredients identified
above are what you call the
“MUST DOs” in planning a
community action.

4. In community action are development, there
are 4 general phases of community
organization processes, which were cited by
Andres (1988): (1) Issue Identification,
Analysis, and Dissemination (2) Mobilization
of Community; (3) Organization; (4)
Education

5. Process of Appreciating Community Dynamics,
Community change agents must be aware of the
following :
•Know the community issue
•Analyze the issue from different perspective
•Identify and get to know the relevant community
structures and systems
•Identify and get to know the players
•Identify Community Actors
•Trace Connections