Community Engagement Activities

Instructions
Direction: In line with our recent lecture- meeting about Core Values and principles of
community engagement, Identify 3 issues/ problems being experience and/or present
in your community, what are the sector(s) involve, and what possible community
engagement activities can be conducted to address these issues.
After which, be able to explain why you came up with such activity to address your
identified issues.

COMMUNITY
ISSUES OR PROBLEMS SECTOR(S) INVOLVE ENGAGEMENT
ACTIVITIES
Inadequate Emergency This kind of issue includes The easiest way activity to
Services the involvement of the have a community
- This includes public sector. Government engagement in addressing
inadequate disaster is one of the sectors that this issue is by
rescue and relief. Also, are responsible for this. implementing readiness
fragmented social care Other public sectors are huddles. This will help
at the neighborhood addressing this kind of everyone to be ready for
level and ineffective issue by evaluating situations that may occur
delivery of basic human different programs like anytime. Additionally,
resource services. building more health improving response to
Additionally, it also facilities, medical surges in patient volume
includes the transport, patients as well will also help a lot but it
inadequacy of civil as health care. can achieve by having
defense and the community involvement in
unavailability of first terms of having a seminar
aid. or meeting about the needs
of everyone in terms of
emergency services. By
having a community
engagement in seminars,
the needs and issues faced
by the community will be
easily addressed.
Transportation Technically, transportation There are many helpful
- The Philippines has a is a sub-group of the steps we can make to
massive public industrial sector. While the address the issue in
transport shortage, provision of transport transportation and
made worse by the services, particularly in the including these is to
COVID-19 pandemic road subsectors, is encourage the community
 and the decision to dominated by the private to walk if they can do it as
tighten the public sector; the role of the long as the destination is
transport supply. Non- private sector in providing not that far. Second, it is
home-based workers transport infrastructure has better to have an activity or
and students found it been inconsistent. seminar that promotes the
much harder to move use of bicycles. The
and go to their work benefits of cycling have
and school. Aside from long been recognized. The
that, the Philippines bicycle is cheap to buy and
also experience this run and is in urban areas
problem even before often the quickest door-to-
the pandemic. Filipino door mode. It is a form of
communities also faced transport, that is noiseless,
a lack of quality urban non-polluting, energy-and
transport systems. space-efficient, and non-
threatening to most other
road users. And to quickly
addressed this problem,
private or public sectors
must have action about
transport coordination, and
public transport
improvement
Hunger The private sector and The possible community
other multisectoral groups engagement activities that
- It is the term used to alongside members of Task can be conducted to
define periods when Force Zero Hunger share address the hunger issue in
populations are pro-active measures to take our community are to
experiencing severe action to address the donate money and food to
food insecurity— problem. The immediate the local food bank or
meaning that they go solution to hunger is food pantry. It is one of the
for entire days without availability. Private sectors easiest ways that everyone
eating due to lack of and other multisectoral can do to help and address
money, lack of access to groups’ measures to hunger. Aside from that, to
food, or other mitigate hunger include mitigate hunger, we can
resources. increasing food production also donate, volunteer, and
capacity and productivity, host an event that can
enhancing the efficiency of teach people to properly
logistics and food delivery, manage food and hunger.
public infrastructure, and In addition, leading a
implementing the Food- school feeding program
for-School Program and can help a lot to address
other feeding programs. this problem since this will
give a benefit to both
 educational and health
benefits to the most
vulnerable children.
1. As a citizen of our community, I came up with the idea of implementing a readiness
huddle to address the inadequate emergency service. I have already seen and
experienced that there is inadequate emergency service like the lack of supply of
water in the fire truck. Because of that, the fire got worse near us and elsewhere. I
noticed that the emergency service in our community is very low because of its
unprepared emergency service. In addition, I also experienced a lack of medical
services in our community, as a result, my family had a hard time finding a hospital
that provides service for a particular condition right away. And because of that, his
condition becomes worse. That’s why I also included in the activity to have a seminar
regarding the concerns and needs of the community to be quickly addressed by the
government or other firms that are responsible for this issue.
2. As a student I know how hard to use public transportation, especially during rush
hour. Many people are struggling with this kind of problem which is why as a
student it helps me to learn that walking and using a bicycle will help me to reduce
travel fatigue and this will also help others to ride public transportation, especially
those who are in a hurry. By that, I can also help and engage with them in terms of
giving them the opportunity to rise public transportation.
3. In our community, I see and hear a lot about food shortages that result in
malnutrition due to lack of money and other basic human needs. So as a member of
the community, I can engage with them by giving my helping skills such as donating
what I have and volunteering in various activities that promote good for all. Even in
small things I can now help others, not even financial help but physically attending
activities that help other people has made a big difference for others.