SOCIAL WORK

PRACTICE
WITH COMMUNITES
PBSSW 017
4: 30 – 6:00 PM
HD 303
 ELEMENTS
OF
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
 A. EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Refers to the various forms of educational activities meant to
concientisize and develop people’s critical awareness of their
existing conditions.
• Refers to tapping and maximum utilization of human and
material resources necessary to achieve self reliance of people
and power
 B. FORMATION OF PEOPLE’S
ORGANIZATION
• Creation of functional structures that will serve as
venue for people to express their power.
• Management of these organizations is based on the
principles of shared leadership and those elected in the
position have been carefully selected and agreed upon
majority.
C. PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
C. PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
The goal of economic and social
development in developing countries is to
set in motion a process of self-reliant and
sustainable development through which
social justice will be realized. "Self-reliant
development" means building the
endogenous mechanisms of society that
will enable developing nations ultimately to
achieve growth without aid.
 C. PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT

"Sustainable" development means continuing a

stable growth pattern in such a way as economic
development is in harmony with the environment.
The realization of "social justice" means equalizing
and ensuring opportunities for people to participate
in order to rectify disparities between regions,
income levels, and gender.
 C. PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT

The series of processes through which

peoples' awareness, organization, and
capabilities are continuously developed is
collectively termed "the process of
participation in local society," but many forms
of participation in this process actually exist..
n
 The following three elements are involved; they interact
while influencing the form as well as the quality of
participation

1. People and local organizations (including the subgroups that form

part of the organization when an organization is involved), the agents
of participation;
2. The formal and informal institutions such as laws, administrative
systems, or behavioral norms that determine the participating entity's
opportunities for participation and behavioral models
3. The national structures of state and government that are guarantors
of the effectiveness of these institutions and can improve or
strengthen them through policy support
 D. MOBILIZATION OF RESOURCES
• Community Resource mobilization is the process of getting
resources from resource provider, using different
mechanisms, to implement an organization's predetermined
goals.
• It deals in acquiring the needed resources in a timely, cost-
effective manner. Resource mobilization advocates having
the right type of resource, at the right time, at right price
with making right use of acquired resources thus ensuring
optimum utilization of the same.
• It refers to all activities involved in securing new and
additional resources for the community. It also
involves making better use of, and maximizing,
existing resources.
 Need and Significance of Community
Resource Mobilization
1. Ensures the continuation of your organization service
provision to client.
2. Supports organizational sustainability
3. Allows for improvement and scale up of products and
services the organization currently provides.
4. Organization, both in public and private sector must be
in the community on generating new business to stay in
community.
5. to seek significantly more resources to help more people;
6.To maintain the highest standards of ethics and behavior;
7. To insist on accountability to both beneficiaries and to
donors;
8. To improve overall quality, operational efficiency and
programme effectiveness;
9. To increase creativity and capacity in fundraising,
events and resource generation;
 Five Steps to Successful Community
Resource Mobilization
1. Start off with a transparent community selection process
and share results
2. Map community priorities and identify community
leaders through community assessments
3. Hold preliminary meetings with community leaders and
enlist their support to mobilize community participation
4. Hold community assembly meetings to elect local
representation to coordinate program activities

5. Allow communities to prioritize and select quick impact

projects to solidify support and galvanize local
participation