Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
CARAGA REGION XIII
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
SURIGAO DEL NORTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SURIGAO CITY
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Name of Learner: _________________________Grade Level: ____________________
Section: _______________________ Score:_____________________
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS (LAS)
SYSTEMATIC METHODS OF COMMUNITY ACTION IN UNDERSTANDING
COMMUNITY
Background Information for Learners:
Community action is an alternative research method that uses the community as the
unit of analysis. This approach forges research alliances with relevant stakeholders in the
community to explore and develop solutions to local problems. Community action includes a
broader range of activities and is sometimes describe as “social action” or ‘community
engagement’ that increases the understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in
the design and delivery of local services including:
• Building community and social capacity-helping the community to share skills and
ideas.
• Community resilience-helping the community to support itself.
• Prevention- a focus on early access to services or support, engagement in design,
cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
• Maintaining and creating wealth- for example helping people into employment or
developing community enterprise.
Action research makes a reasonable resolution or accurate evaluation more probable in
two ways. First, by involving the people directly affected by the issue or intervention, it brings to
bear the best information available about what’s actually happening. Second, it encourages
community buy-in and support for whatever plans or interventions are developed. If people are
involved in the implementation of solutions to community issues, they’ll feel they own the
process, and work to make it successful. (e.g. community engagement in decision making-
through public engagement events where the community helps to decide local priorities,
codesign or co-commission services)
In the previous lesson we discussed the different methodologies and approaches in
community action in understanding community. A researcher conducting community action
should apply systematic methods to understand community such as partnership, community
profiling which is a process of creating a series of information that is applied to something or
someone through techniques of date elaborations, needs assessment, participatory action
planning, resource mobilization, implementation plan, and monitoring and evaluation.
Another method to be used in conducting community action is the need assessment
that identifies the strengths, weakness, needs, and resources which could help tear down the
barriers and resistances that prevent the community from achieving their goals. Community
profiling and needs assessment are the most basic methods used in conducting community
action.
This toolkit provides guidance for conducting assessments of community needs and
resources:
1. Describe the makeup and history of the community to provide a context within which to
collect data on its current concerns.
a. Comment on the types of information that best describes the community (e.g., demographic,
historical, political, civic participation, key leaders, past concerns, geographic, assets)
b. Describe the sources of information used (e.g., public records, local people, internet, maps,
phone book, library, newspaper)
c. Comment on whether there are sufficient resources (e.g., time, personnel, resources)
available to collect this information
d. Assess the quality of the information e. Describe the strengths and problems you heard about
2. Describe what matters to people in the community, including a description of:
a. Issues that people in the community care about (e.g., safety, education, housing, health)
b. How important these issues are to the community (e.g., perceived importance, consequences
for the community)
c. Methods the group will (did) use to listen to the community (e.g., listening sessions, public
forums, interviews, concerns surveys, focus groups)
3. Describe what matters to key stakeholders, including:
a. Who else cares about the issue (the stakeholders) and what do they care about?
b. What stakeholders want to know about the situation (e.g., who is affected, how many, what
factors contribute to the problem)
c. Prioritized populations and subgroups that stakeholders intend to benefit from the effort
d. Methods you will (did) use to gather information (e.g., surveys, interviews)
4. (For each candidate problem/goal) Describe the evidence indicating whether the problem/goal
should be a priority issue, including:
a. The community-level indicators (e.g., rate of infant deaths or vehicle crashes) related to the
issue
b. How frequently the problem (or related behavior) occurs (e.g., number of youth reporting
alcohol use in the past 30 days)
c. How many people are affected by the problem and the severity of its effects
d. How feasible it is to address the issue
e. Possible impact and/or consequences of addressing the problem/goal
5. Describe the barriers and resources for addressing the identified issue(s), including:
a. Barriers or resistance to solving the problem or achieving the goal (e.g., denial or discounting
of the problem) and how they can be minimized (e.g., reframing the issue)
b. What resources and assets are available and how the group can tap into those resources to
address the issue
c. Community context or situation that might make it easier or more difficult to address this
issue.
Tools/Steps for Resource Mobilization:
1. Submitting proposals to typical donor agency is the most conventional way of getting support.
2. Organizing fundraising events where you invite guests and request donations for your
organization.
3. Donation boxes where you request small amounts of money from public.
4. Collecting in-kind contribution such as used clothes, books, etc.
5. Volunteer support where volunteers provide their time and resources to support the work
organization.
6. Income from busines-oriented projects of your organization like selling publications, offering
consultancies, microfinance, or micro-enterprise-based activites.

Learning Competency with code:

Apply systematic methods of community action in understanding community. (Week 4)

Activity 1: TRUE OR FALSE!

Direction: Assess whether the statement is true or false. Write T if the statement is true and F it is
false.
_______1. Conducting community action requires community profiling.
_______2. Needs assessment is a tool to give solution to the problem of community.
_______3. Applying systematic methods in conducting community action promotes positive
change in the community.
_______4. Methodologies and approaches in community action increases understanding,
engagement, and empowerment of communities.
_______5. Different stakeholders are engaged in community action.

Activity 2. COUNT ME IN!

Directions: Among the different methods used in community action choose one that you can
apply in undertaking community action. Enumerate the steps in each method. (e.g. needs
assessment- the issue of Distance learning of the Department of Education in relation to the
pandemic Covid 19)
1. Identify one method that you can apply in undertaking community
action_______________.
2. Select one method in conducting community action and give the steps of the specific
method. a. ____________________ b.____________________
c.____________________ d. ____________________ e.____________________
f.__________________
Reflection: Complete this statement:

What I have learned in this activity

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I enjoyed most
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I want to learn more
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Prepared by:

CINDY D. ORALIZA
MASTER TEACHER I