Community Engagement

Solidarity and Citizenship 12

Quarter 2
Module 2
Core Values and Principles of
Community Action Initiatives:

• Social Justice
• Empowerment Advocacy
Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship
Quarter 2 – Module 2: Core Values and Principles of Community Action
Initiatives: Social Justice and Empowerment Advocacy

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 Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship 12
Quarter 2
Module 2
Core Values and Principles of Community Action Initiatives:

• Social Justice
• Empowerment Advocacy
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship 12 Self-

Learning Module on Core Values and Principles of Community Action Initiatives:
Social Justice and Empowerment Advocacy!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

 Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship 12 Self-
Learning Module on Core Values and Principles of Community Action Initiatives:
Social Justice and Empowerment Advocacy!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

1. Establish the concept of social justice and empowerment.

2. Examine the core values and principles of community action initiatives on social
justice and people empowerment.
3. Promote the values of social justice and people empowerment in the community.

PRETEST

Direction: TRUE OR FALSE Read and understand the statement below, write capital
latter T if the statement is true and write capital latter F if the statement is false.
Write your answer in the given space before the number.

___1. Social justice is the reasonable relationship between the individual and society.
___2. Practicing equal treatment to each and every one in a community is an example
of existing social justice.
___3. Enjoy being a wealthy man is a form of social justice.
___4. Giving alms to the poor for your political agenda is good practice of social
justice.
___5. Having a productive community is the important of social justice.

RECAP

Direction: Answer the following with the phrases: “in every case”, in most cases”,
and “in some cases”, write your answer in the blank space before each number.

1. Killing is wrong.

2. All people should be treated equally.

3. All people have the right to medical help if they are ill.

4. All people have a right to education.

5. People should be allowed to travel and leave the

country if they wish.
 LESSON

SOCIAL JUSTICE
According to the Global Issues Pilot Team
(2011), Social Justice in a “societal value which Photo source: sunursemanifest.com
guides human interaction and, in particular the fair distribution of society’s benefits,
advantages and assets, not just by the law and in the courts but in all aspects of
society.” It is not only about obtaining and protecting rights but also about
responsibilities and their consequences. Also, social justice is associated with social
action because the advancement of social justice is a political issue. It embraces all
actions taken by individuals or groups to achieve a political or social change or to
support a cause.

Social Justice requires the equitable

access to and distribution of resources,
services, and benefits, as well as the
acknowledgement of the right of people to
their cultural heritage. This is because the
ownership, use or control of the national
wealth, decision making process, and
social services are in the hands of a very
small minority especially in developing
countries like the Philippines.

Social amelioration program granted by

the government to those deeply affected
If justice is to be put into practice social
by the pandemic. Photo source:
tabloid.ph
development agents and civil society must
be prepared to take on new functions and
duties. They must willingly attempt approaches with a sensitive consciousness of
justice. A specific contribution of development initiatives should be an education
program which challenges all levels of people where justice is an issue in local,
national, and transnational structures. The principal aim of this education for justice
is to create awareness of the real situation and call for action to secure justice with
peace.

SOCIAL JUSTICE
Social Justice, in the status quo, is a hotly debated topic. Its definition is relative to
the context of its application and implication. The United Nations provided this
definition of the term;
“Social Justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate
distribution of the fruits of economic growth.”
The idea inherent in social justice revolves
around fairness, accessibility, and inclusivity
which can be attained once the rights are
serve and protected by those in power, such
abuses intensify the need for the people to be
resilient in the face of adversity, vigilant
against abuses, progressive in their vision
and accountable to their actions. These are
the same traits that we have already
discussed, they help social justice advance
equity and fairness to all humankind. Photo source: theconversation.com

The change we seek is realized by engaging the system to alter the course of our
social condition. Everything starts by being aware of our basic rights and to respect
the rights of others.

The debate is now hinged with the “RIGHT TO PROTECT” or humanitarian

intervention in other context which was endorsed by the member states of the
United Nations in 2005. This is global commitment of international bodies to
intervene in the conflict between the member states in order to protect their
citizens. More that humanitarian aid, the intervention hopes to protect the people
from abuses and restore the dignity of the population by upholding their
inalienable rights.

The Philippine Constitution of 1987

ARTICLE XIII

Social Justice and Human Rights

SECTION 1. The Congress shall give highest priority to the enactment of measures
that protect and enhance the right of all the people to human dignity, reduce social,
economic, and political inequalities, and remove cultural inequities by equitably
diffusing wealth and political power for the common good.

To this end, the State shall regulate the acquisition, ownership, use, and disposition
of property and its increments.

SECTION 2. The promotion of social justice shall include the commitment to create
economic opportunities based on freedom of initiative and self-reliance.

Source: https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1987-constitution/
EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY
Empowerment as a concept has
diverse connotations in various
cultural and political contexts.
According to the World Bank(WB),
empowerment is defined as “gaining
power and control over decisions and
resources that determine the quality of
life.” Broadly, the term refers to the Photo source: actionforme.org.uk

expansion of assets and capabilities of poor people to participate in, negotiate with,
control and hold accountable institutions that affect their lives. (WB)

Also, the WB identified four elements of empowerment: access to information,

inclusion and participation, accountability and local organizational capacity, all of
which are closely interlinked. These elements are briefly described below.
1. ACCESS TO INFORMATION – information is power, It is impossible for the
poor to participate and take effective action if there is lack of pertinent,
appropriate, and easy- reading information. The more informed the people
are the more active they can be in taking the opportunity to participate and
get access to service, exercise their rights, negotiate effectively and hold the
state accountable.

2. INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION – as explained by the WB, inclusion

focuses on the question about who are included. On the other hand,
participation tackles the question how are they included and what role do
they play? However, in the attempt to withstand “inclusion and informed
participation,” it necessitates altering the rules in order to provide a space
for people to deliberate on issues and “participate directly or indirectly in
local and national settings, budget formation and delivery of basic services.”

3. ACCOUNTABILITY – This term refers to the ability to call public officials and
other service providers to make them accountable for their policies, actions
and use of funds. The WB identified three types of accountability
mechanisms; Political, administrative, and public. Political accountability
refers to making political parties and representatives accountable through
elections. Administrative accountability of government is achieved through
internal accountability mechanisms within and among agencies. Public or
social accountability holds government agencies accountable to citizens.

4. LOCAL ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY – This element refers to the ability of

people to work together, organize themselves and mobilize resources to solve
problems of common interest. Organized communities are more likely to
have their voices heard and their demands met than the communities that
are not organized or with small organizations. Local community
organizations capacity building is key to their effectiveness.
EMPOWERMENT

• Authority or power given to someone to do something

• The process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling
one’s life and claiming one’s rights
ADVOCACY

• Public support for or recommendation or a particular cause or policy

• An act of supporting a cause. It is undertaken through different methods that
prompt and affect the perspective, sentiments, and choices of individuals and
groups of people. It fluences policymaking and resource allocation that have an
impact on the people, the community and the country as a whole.

o Active promotion of a cause or principle

o Involves actions that lead to a selected goal
o One of many possible strategies, or ways to
approach a problem
o Can be used as part of a community
initiatives, nested in with other components
o Is not direct services
o Does not necessarily involve confrontation or
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conflict

ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY #1

GALLERY WALK

DIRECTION: Analyze the different picture presented in a gallery walk (below). What
is you understanding on the existence of social justice and it’s important? Write
your answers on the table given below.

Shake drill being administered by the Bureau of Photo source: acenergy.ph

Fire Protection. Photo source: jtifoundation.org
Photo source: cc.gfamedia.org Photo source: mypasigcity.files.wordpress.com

Photo source: 3.bp.blogspot.com Photo source: pkfeyerabend.org

Photo source: /images.csmonitor.com Photo source: adyjoycl.files.wordpress.com

What is your What is the importance of Site some practices in

understanding in the social justice? your community that will
existence of the Social show social justice.
Justice?
1. 1. 1.

2. 2. 2.

3. 3. 3.

ACTIVITY #2
ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN
DIRECTIONS: Choose one situation in the gallery walk. Develop an advocacy
material that can help change the situation of the people in the gallery walk. The
advocacy material should meet the following;

• Create awareness among the students and the community on the issues
affecting the social justice.
• The advocacy material may be in the form of videos, PowerPoint
presentation, or brochures and flyers
• Please be guided by the rubrics below,

RUBRICS
Score
Criteria 1 2 3 4
Coverage of the topic
Accuracy of Facts
Sequencing of Information
Use of Graphics
Layout and Design

TOTAL

WRAP–UP

Before we end up with Module 2 let us see how much you’ve learned to this topic:

1. If you will be given a chance to be a student leader of our school, what will be
the changes that you want to advocate? And why?
2. What are the things you can contribute as a learner to impose practicing social
justice in your community?

VALUING

1. As a student, what are the ways to ensure practicing social justice in your
home, school, and community?

POSTTEST
 1. As a student, what would be your reasons why will you involve yourself in
community empowerment/development? List 5 reasons in your journal
(personal)

KEY TO CORRECTION
Pretest: 5. T 4. F 3.T 2. T 1. T

3. In every case
Recap: 5. In some case 2. In every case
4. In every case 1. In every case

ANSWERS’ VARY
Posttest:

References

Websites:

https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1987-constitution/

Books:

Melegrito, Ma. Lourdes F. and Mendoza, Diana J. 2016 Zeal for Action Community
Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship Quezon City, Phoenix Publishing
House, Inc.
Delos Santos, Danilo Lorenzo S. 2017. Community Enggagement, Solidarity, and
Citizenship Quezon City: REX BOOKSTORE, Inc.

Illustrations:

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sustainability-help-earth-3.jpg
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https://mypasigcity.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/1.jpg
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networks.jpg?alias=standard_900x600
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