01 Understanding The Dynamics in The Community

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❑People with common interest living together in the same
place.
❑An aggregation of families and individuals who have settled
in a compact and contagious geographical area and share
significant elements of common life and shown in their
manners, customs, traditions, and modes of speech.
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Formal Group
» Formed when people come together to accomplish
specific goals and objectives.

Informal Group
» Formed when two or more people come together to
accomplish a specific task which is mainly socially geared.

Urban Area
» The region surrounding a city
» An area with high density of population

Rural Area
» An open swath of
land that has few
homes or other
buildings, and not
very many people
» A rural area’s
population density
is very low.

Global Community
» The people or nations of the
world, considered as being
closely connected by
modern
telecommunications and as
being economically, socially,
and politically
interdependent.

Sectoral Community
» Relating to the various economic sectors of a society or to
a particular economic sector.

Social Space
» A physical or virtual space such as a social center, online
social media, or other gathering place where people
gather and interact.

1. Demographics
» Characteristics of population
» Tells about the movement of population in the community
that you will serve
2. History
» Allows you to identify certain patterns of change and
people’s way of adapting these changes that can be useful
in plotting your activities
» Events of the past that contributed to the development of
community
3. Understanding the economy, culture and community
structures
» Economy: consists of the economic systems of a country
or other area; the labor, capital, and land resources; and
the manufacturing, production, trade, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services of that area
» Income level of the people
» Culture ways of living of the people
» Structures physical, political and social structures

❑A way of analyzing gaps in the
community services, as well as the
strengths and assets available in
your community.

❑Plays a critical role in guiding
decision making and priority-
setting for your program while
involving community members in
the process.

❑You want to serve a community
❑You don’t know what it needs
❑Or how to address those needs
❑You want an evidence base to guide you

❑Gather information about the community’s attitudes and
opinions in order of importance.
❑Determine how citizens tank local issues, problems, and
opportunities.
❑Give the citizens voice in determining policies, goals, and
priorities.
❑Evaluate current programs and policies.
❑Speculate on what the people are thinking and what they
may really want.

Awareness
Credibility
Knowledge leads to
Counts
Change

1. Awareness on the importance and purpose of the
information to be collected
2. Determine when you want to use the data
3. Determine exactly what you want to know
4. Determine who will find the information
5. Identify possible sources of information
6. Set limits to how much information you want to collect
7. Collect the data

8. Identify gaps in your knowledge
9. Repeat the process to fill those gaps or collect your own
data
10.Compare the data of your community with another
community

1. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) by key Informants
» The key informants of the community are the people who
hold socially relevant positions.
2. Community Forum/Assembly
» This involves holding group events which include the
entire community. Such events give visibility to the
leaders and raise the status of the community.
3. Public Records
» Public records like the national census provide social and
demographic data of the community.
4. Survey
» Mailing questionnaires to randomly selected members of
the community
» Doing telephone surveys
» Handing out survey during assemblies
» Posting questionnaires on the internet.

Historical Geographical & Political and Demographic Economic Data
Development Transportation Legal Functions Data
Information

❑The problem occurs (frequency)
❑The duration of the problem (did it last for a while?)
❑The scope or range (how many people are affected?)
❑The severity of the problem (the intense of the effect)
❑The equity (how many are deprived of legal or moral rights?)
❑The perception (how problem is perceived?)

❑To better identify the problem or
issue.
❑To understand the main reason of
a problem.
❑To determine the barriers and
resources associated with
addressing the problem.
❑To develop the best remedy for
addressing the problem.

1. Help identify interest groups and citizens who can be part
of working committees.
2. Facilitate a group discussion to determine important issues
and priorities.
3. Select the sample to be surveyed and design a system to
identify respondents.
4. Provide a pool of questions from which the working
committees draw upon in addressing issues and concerns.

5. Design a way of distributing and collecting survey
questionnaires and encoding and analyzing the resulting
data.
6. Provide summary reports of data.
7. Suggest programs whereby results can be reported and
strategies on community involvement solicited.
8. Work with citizens to come up with well-informed course
of action.

Act Together
Collect Community Data
Evaluate Findings
Set Priorities
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