The Core Values

of Community
Action Initiatives
 Why are core values
important to our lives?

Personal core values of community

action initiatives are guiding
principles that dictate moral ethics
and guide us on how we think, feel
and behave. They allow us in shaping
a better way of living. The
environment we are in and our own
experiences are part in shaping what
we truly value in life especially those
we love the most.
 Community values are non-
negotiable core principles or
standards that the community’s
citizens wish to maintain. The core
values of community action are
human rights, social equity, gender
equality, and participatory
development. These guiding
principles must be acknowledged,
honored, and constantly defended
to ensure that change and
development occur in accordance
with these core values.
 Community action provides
opportunities for people who
deserve change for the better, to
enable them to pursue and
achieve self – reliance. With the
guiding core values through
solidarity, we can contribute to
community development and
nation building.
Community action is very
important for the
sustainability of life on
Earth. It is therefore
necessary for core values
within every community to
be carefully considered.
What are Core Values?

They are our guiding principles

that dictate our behavior. They
guide us with what we feel, think,
as well as how we behave. They
allow us in shaping a better way of
living where we may enjoy utmost
freedom and hence, freely show
our skills and creativity.
Community values are the non-
negotiable core principles or standards
that the community's citizens wish to
maintain. They must be acknowledged,
honored and constantly defended to
ensure that change and development
occur in accordance with these core
principles and standards.
What are the Core Values of Community
Action?

Social Equity

Gender Equality

Human Rights

Participatory Development
 Define Equity
- It is the quality of being fair and impartial
- Equity in schooling as ensuring that
differences in educational outcomes are
not the result of differences in wealth,
income, power or possessions. Equity in
this sense does not mean that all students
are the same or will achieve the same
outcomes. Rather, it means that all
students must have access to an
acceptable international standard of
education, regardless of where they live or
the school they attend.
What is Social Equity

The fair, just and equitable

management of all institutions
serving the public directly or by
contract; and the fair and equitable
distribution of public services, and
implementation of public policy; and
the commitment to promote fairness,
justice and equity in the formation of
public policy.
Social Equity is the active
commitment to fairness,
justice, and equality in the
formulation of public policy,
distribution of public services,
implementation of public
policy, and management of all
institutions serving the public
directly of by contract.
Define - The state of being equal, especially in
status, rights, and opportunities.
Equality
Example of Equality
- Equality is defined as the condition of
being equal, or the same in quality,
measure, esteem or value. When men
and women are both viewed as being
just as smart and capable as each other,
this is an example of equality of the
sexes.
Define Gender.
Gender is defined as the
socially constructed roles and
behaviors that a society
typically associates with males
and females.
An example of gender is
referring to someone who
wears a dress as a female.
What is Gender Equality?
- Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal
rights, responsibilities and opportunities
- 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
- According to UNICEF, gender
equality "means that women
and men, and girls and boys,
enjoy the same rights,
resources, opportunities and
protections. It does not require
that girls and boys, or women
and men, be the same, or that
they be treated exactly alike.
Gender Equality, why we need it?
- We need gender equality urgently. Gender equality
prevents violence against women and girls. It is
essential for economic prosperity. Societies that value
women and men as equal are safer and healthier.
Gender equality is a human right. Everyone benefits
from gender equality.
Define Rights
- A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain
something or to act in a certain way.
- Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom
or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental
normative rules about what is allowed of people or
owed to people according to some legal system, social
convention, or ethical theory.
 Define Human
Rights
- Human rights are rights inherent to all human
beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality,
ethnicity, language, religion, or any other
status.
- Human rights include the right to life and
liberty, freedom from slavery and torture,
freedom of opinion and expression, the right to
work and education, and many more. Everyone
is entitled to these rights, without
discrimination.
- All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights” and that “everyone is
entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth
in this Declaration, without distinction of any
kind, such as race, color, sex, language,
religion, birth or other status.
Why is Human Right important?
Ensures people Allow people to Encourages
Protects vulnerable
have basic needs stand up to societal freedom of speech
groups from abuse
met corruption and expression

Gives people the

Allows people to
freedom to practice Encourages equal Gives people access
love who they
their religion (or not work opportunities to education
choose
practice any)

Provides a universal
Protects the standard that holds
environment governments
accountable
Define Development

- Is a process that creates

growth, progress, positive
change or the addition of
physical, economic,
environmental, social and
demographic
components.
What is the purpose
of development?
- The purpose of development is a
rise in the level and quality of life of
the population, and the creation or
expansion of local regional income
and employment opportunities,
without damaging the resources of
the environment. Development is
visible and useful, not necessarily
immediately, and includes an aspect
of quality change and the creation of
conditions for a continuation of that
change.
What is Participatory Development?
- Participatory development is defined as a process, which
actively and substantially involves people in all decisions
affecting their lives.
- A process through which stakeholders can influence and
share control over development initiatives, and over the
decisions and resources that affect themselves.
Why is participatory Development
important?

It strengthens civil society and

the economy by empowering
groups, communities,
Enhances the efficiency,
organizations to negotiate with
effectiveness, and sustainability
institutions and bureaucracies,
of development programs.
thus influencing public policy
and providing a check on the
power of government.
Understanding the core values of
community action initiatives like
human rights, social equity, gender
equality, and participatory
development help us strengthen
community cohesiveness as the
primary element that makes a
community a true community.
 1. How important is core values in
Read and one’s life?
analyze the
following 2. Are you enjoying the different
rights and privileges intended for
questions. you as a Filipino citizen?

Answer these 3. Can you name some of your

rights and privileges?
questions
based on your 4. Are you treated fairly in school?
own
experiences.
 5. Did you receive equal treatment
Read and in your community from the local
analyze the government?

following 6. Do you think it is important to be

actively participative in the different
questions. school

Answer these activities or community services?

questions
based on your 7. Why is it necessary to be aware of
own what is happening in our society?

experiences.
Write an essay that tells your happy experiences
about the practice of the different core values of
community action. (Note: only one happy
experience) Write also one sad experience of the
malpractice of core values of community action.

Rubric Criteria Description Points

Organization The idea was clearly and creatively conveyed 10
Content Ideas are clearly used and explained 5
Relevance The whole contents are relevant experiences 5
Read the following sentences. Analyze what core values
each item represent. Write Human Rights, Social Equity,
Gender Equality, or Participatory Development.

1. My teacher encourages me to get involved with the

different school activities.
2. I have the liberty to express my beliefs and ideas.
3. My school is fair when identifying punishments for students’
misbehavior.
4. The school practices promote fairness to both male and
female students.
5. I frequently volunteer in community services in school.
Read the following sentences. Analyze what core values
each item represent. Write Human Rights, Social Equity,
Gender Equality, or Participatory Development.
6. I always participate in the brigada eskwela activities.
7. My school provides equal access, resources, activities, and
scheduling accommodations for all individuals.
8. Promoting a just and fair society for those at the bottom
9. I support my schools’ proper waste management campaign.
10. It aims to eliminate the inequalities of rights between men and
women, to promote a culture of equity, and to deal with the different
types of violence and discrimination faced by men and women.
Read the following sentences. Analyze what core values
each item represent. Write Human Rights, Social Equity,
Gender Equality, or Participatory Development.
11. Each person in the society must receive equal relief goods from the government
for we are all affected by this present pandemic.
12. I will work in a just and favorable condition.
13. Even if I am poor, I still have the right to education and enjoyment of the benefits
of cultural freedom.
14. She was given an opportunity by her parents to enroll in the Criminology course
although it is more suited for men, as what other people say.
15. The right of everyone to an adequate standard of living.