Selected Cases of Community-Action Initiatives
Selected Cases of Community-Action Initiatives
COMMUNITY-ACTION
INITIATIVES
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COMMUNITY-ACTION
INITIATIVES
• Human rights
• Social justice
• Empowerment and advocacy
• Participatory development
• Gender equality
HUMAN RIGHTS
also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of
access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic
participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same
rights and opportunities across all sectors of society, including
economic participation and decision-making, and when the different
behaviors, aspirations and needs of women and men are equally valued
and favored.
METHODOLOGIES AND
APPROACHES OF COMMUNITY
ACTIONS AND INVOLVEMENTS
ACROSS DISCIPLINES
1.Partnership building with local groups
2.Community profiling
3.Needs assessment
4.Working with a core group/leadership
development/participatory action
planning
• Partnership building with local groups
A community meeting on future perspectives in local
development planning is a way to create a shared vision for
partnership building. It enrols those stakeholders, who have
the power of information on the topics at hand and those
who are affected by the outcomes.
• Community Profiling
a social research method which involves building up a
picture of the nature, needs and resources of a locality or
community, with the active participation of its members, the
aim being to create and implement an action plan to address
the issues unearthed
• Needs assessment
a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or
"gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or
"wants".The discrepancy between the current condition and
wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the
need.
• Working with a core group of leaders/leadership
development/participatory action planning
one in which everyone who has a stake in the intervention has
a voice, either in person or by representation. Staff of the
organization that will run it, members of the target population,
community officials, interested citizens, and people from involved
agencies, schools, and other institutions all should be invited to the
table. Everyone's participation should be welcomed and respected,
and the process shouldn't be dominated by any individual or group,
or by a single point of view.