2. FOCUS QUESTIONS
1. What is community action? What encompasses it?
2. What the core principles of community
engagement?
3. What the core principles of community solidarity?
4. How is citienship acquired?
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3. COMMUNITY ACTION
▪ It is a campaign undertaken by people living in a
particular place.
▪ It is an action undertaken by members of the
community for that community’s own improvement
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6. 1.
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
the process by which community benefit organizations and
individuals build ongoing, permanent relationships for the purpose
of applying a collective vision for the benefit of a community
7. Origin of Community Engagement
▪ Community benefit
▫ concept in English common law
▫ 1891 legal decision defined types of charitable
organizations
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9. Origin of Community Engagement
▪ Community organizing - is a process where
people who live in proximity to each other come
together into an organization that acts in their
shared self-interest.
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11. Core Principles of Community Engagement
1. Careful Planning and Preparation
2. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
3. Collaboration and Shared Purpose
4. Openness and Learning
5. Transparency and Trust
6. Impact and Action
7. Sustained Engagement and Participatory Culture
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15. Core Principles of Community Solidarity
1. Dignity of the Human Person
2. The Common Good
3. Subsidiary and Participation
4. Solidarity Regardless of Ideological Differences
5. Preferential Option for the Poor
6. Economic Justice
7. Stewardship of Creation
8. Promotion of Peace
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17. Citizenship
▪ Citizenship is the status of a person recognized
under the custom or law as being a member of a
country.
▪ Nationality denotes a person’s membership of a
nation (a large ethnic group)
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18. Ways of Acquiring Citizenship
1. Jus sanguinis – parents are citizens
2. Jus soli – born within a country
3. Jure matrimonii – marriage to a citizen
4. Naturalization – process by which a non-citizen of
a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of
that country.
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19. Citizenship Building
▪ Processes that can increase capacity of the
citizens to respond intelligently to the changing
environment around them:
1. Servant leadership – either initiative from top or
bottom
2. Regularity – periodic intervals
3. Complementarity – using processes together
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