Principles of Community Engagement

VERITAS ET MISERICORDIA
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Fighting against the structural roots of poverty, social inequalities and climate
change injustice
Example Application: When indigenous people lobby to fight for their ancestral
lands.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Anchoring the process of human development on international human rights
standards and corresponding obligations established by international law and
corresponding local law
Example Application: Activities in the community are anchored to the bioethical
principles and international human rights statutes.
SOCIAL ADVOCACY
Helping the marginalized to conscientize the general public and people in
authority in order to attain long lasting positive policy changes
Example Application: Observation and promotion of no car policy during chosen
days of the week.
GENDER EQUALITY AND EQUITY
Giving equal opportunity to men and women so they may develop their
personal abilities and attain fairness of treatment for both in accordance to
their respective needs.
Example Application: members of the LGBT are given fair and equal
treatment when being hired for the job.
EMPOWERMENT
Capacitating people to make effective choices or honing their ability to
produce desired changes in one’s life, community or the larger society.
Example Application: A community organizer facilitating a livelihood training
for house wives in the community.
ACCOUNTABILITY
An obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s
actions
Example Application: An institution accepts responsibility and pays for the
damages that they incurred.
PARTNERSHIP BUILDING
Forming strategic alliances between the community, government, business
and civil society to mobilize respective resources and competencies guied by
the values of shared risks cost and mutual benefit.
Example Application: OLFU partners with habitat for Humanity Philippines to
build 50 homes in order to promote and advocate decent homes for
everyone.
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
Eliciting the involvement of the local population especially the poor, the
vulnerable and the marginalized in creating policies and in planning,
implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development programs and
projects.
Example Application: A community organizer consults with the community to
know what the problems are in the grassroots level.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Attainment of people’s well being without destroying natural resources and
without depleting the ecosystem.
Example Application:
LEVELS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Non – Participation
to educate or cure the stakeholders. The idea is defined and the participation is aimed
only to gain public support. If we educate the stakeholders, they change their ill informed
attitudes and they will support our plans”
 Stages: 1. Manipulation , 2. Therapy
Tokenism
 Stage 3: Informing
– stakeholders are kept informed of what is hgoing on but are not offered the
opportunity to contribute themselves. Communication is one way
 Stage 4: Consultation
Stakeholders opinions and views are sought through various means but the final
decisions are made by those doing the consulting.
 Stage 5: Placation
Stakeholders have an active role as shapers of opinions, ideas and outcomes, but
the final decision remains with the facilitators. Two-way communication is essential
LEVELS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Citizen Participation
 Stage 6: Partnership
Stakeholders have direct involvement in the decision making process and
auctioning the decision. Each stakeholders has a clear role, set of responsibilities
and powers usually to achieve a shared common goal. Two way communication is
vital.
 Stage 7: Delegated Power

The goal is likely to have been set by the facilitator but the resources and
responsibility for solving the problem are passed to the stakeholders. There are
clear lines of accountability and two way communication with those giving away
the power.
 Stage 8: Citizen Control

Stakeholders have the idea, set up the project and come to facilitators for a dvice,
discussion and support. Facilitators do not directbut offer advices for citizens to
consider.
MODALITIES OF COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
 Transactional
Relationship is usually one way that is tangible
project delivarables mainly come from decision
made by external agents based on consultations
with the community. interactions with the
community is occasional, service comes on a
need per need basis or is seasonal, and the
external agents has full control of the community
engagement process.
ENGAGEMENT
 Transitional
Relationship is two way that is tangible project
delivarables are brought about by the process of
consultation and collaboration between the
external agent and the community. Repeated
engagement between the external agent and the
community occur due to the infusion of
consultation and collaboration mechanisms in
organizing and implementing projects, but
resources mainly comes from the external agent
and they are in full control of the community
engagement process.
ENGAGEMENT
Tranformational
Relationship is 2 way just like transitional but is
highly characterized by active dialogue and
critical reflectivity brought about by the process
of involvement and active participation between
the external agent and the community. in here
there is joint learning and value generation
involved resulting to mutual trust based on
sustained personal relationships and shared
understanding. There is also prioritization of
community leadership in the decision making
gproess of planning, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation of projects.
ENGAGEMENT
Transcendental
 It is an advanced form of transformational
modality anchored upon higher ideals of
compassion and pro social attitudes where
external agents and the community see
themselves as change agents.
3 FEATURES OF TRANSCENDENCE
Intellectual transcendence
Moral transcendence
Spiritual transcendence

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 Stage 7: Delegated Power

 Stage 8: Citizen Control

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