GROUP 2

METHODOLOGIES OF
COMMUNITY ACTION
Unlocking of Difficulties

Methodologies - a system of methods used in a

particular area of study or activity.

Humanitarian - concerned with or seeking to

promote human welfare.
1. PARTNERSHIP BUILDING WITH LOCAL GROUPS

Time changes. We no longer live in the command and

control era. Today, when it comes to quality decision
making in critical planning and economic development
issues, we live in the age of partnerships and
collaborations.
2. COMMUNITY PROFILING

Community profiling involves building up a picture

of the nature, needs resources of a community
with the active participation of that community. It
is a useful first stage in any community planning
process to establish a context which is widely
agreed.
3. COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
A community needs assessment provides community
leaders with a snapshot of local policies, systems, and
environment change strategies currently to place and
help to identify areas for improvement. With this data,
communities can map out a course for health
improvement by creating strategies to make positive
and sustainable changes intheir communities.
Components of Community Needs Assessment

Policy Change involves laws, regulations, rules, protocols and

procedures that are designed to guide or influence behavior.

System Change involves change that affects all community

components includin social norms of an organization, institution,
or system. It may include a policy or environmental change
strategy. Examples are implementing a national school lunch
program across region, or ensuring hospital systems becomes
tobacco free.
Environmental Change is a type of change which relates to
the physical, social, or economic factor designed to influence
people's practices and behaviors.
4. WORKING WITH GROUP LEADERS: LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITY ACTION

This is an experience of participation in political

action that can transform people, and shape their
perceptions of themselves and their capacity to
make a difference in the world.
5. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION

Resource mobilization refers to all activities

involved in securing new and additional
resources for the organization. It also involves
making better use of and maximizing existing
resources.
Resource mobilization is critical to any organization for
the following reasons:
Ensures the continuation of your organization's service
provision to clients.
Supports organizational sustainability.
Allows for the improvement and scale up of products
and services the organization currently provides.
Organizations both in the public and private sectors
must be in the business of generating new business to
stay in business.
6. SOCIAL ACTION
Distinguishes community action research from various qualitative
approaches is its explicit aim not only develop a greater
understanding of the issues faced by the community but also to
facilitate collective actions towards positive social change.
Mobilization for community action and social change requires
community members developing a greater awareness of both the
socio-cultural conditions that supports the challenge they face and
their own capacity to change those conditions.
7. EVALUATIONS

Evaluation is essential in order the community

education to establish if actions have been
justified and appropriate.
THE APPROACHES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
ACTIONS
Participatory Approach - a range of activities with a common
thread; enabling ordinary people to play an action and influential
part in decision-making which affect their lives.

Community Based Approach is about humanitarian

assistance have "the right to participate in making decisions that
affect to their lives" as well as "a right to information and
transparency" from those responsible providing assistance.
 Asset Based Approach - a type of business valuation that
focuses on a company's net asset value. There is some room of
interpretation in terms of deciding which of the company's
assets and liabilities to include in the valuation and how to
measure the worth of each.

Area Based Approach - defined an, area rather than a

sector or target group primary entry point. This approach can
be particularly appropriate if residents in an affected area
face complex, inter-related, and multi-sectoral need.
Community Economic Development - a field of
study that actively elicits community involvement when
working with government and private sectors to build
strong communities, industries, and markets.

Welfare Approach - a typr of government support

intended to ensure that members of a society can meet
basic human needs such as food and shelter.
Spiritual Psychosocial Approaches - concerned with
that which is beyond ordinary perception of reality may be
rooted.

Right Based Approach - focuses on repect for human

dignity. This approach holds that our dignity is based on our
ability to choose freely how we live our lives, and that we
have a moral right to respect for our choices as free, equal,
and rational people, and a moral duty to respec others in
the same way.