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Mark Darren Zara Praxides
a collective, participatory, transformative, liberative, sustained and systematic process of building people's organizations by mobilizing and enhancing the capabilities and resources of the people for the resolution of their exploitative conditions (1994 National Rural CO Conference)
A process by which a community identifies its needs and objectives, develops confidence to take action in respect to them and in doing so, extends and develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community (Ross 1967).
It should be DOPE Community: Depressed, Oppressed, Poor & Exploited, a new criteria for community organization
1. People, especially the oppressed,
exploited and deprived sectors are
open to change, have the capacity to
change and are able to bring about
change.
2. COPAR should be based on the
interests of the poorest sectors of the society.
3. COPAR should lead to a self-reliant community and society.
THE INITIAL PHASE OF THE ORGANIZING PROCESS WHERE THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER LOOKS FOR COMMUNITIES TO SERVE OR HELP. IT IS THE MOST COMPLEX PHASE IN TERMS OF ACTUAL OUTPUTS, ACTIVITIES, AND STRATEGIES AND TIME SPENT FOR IT.
SOMETIMES CALLED THE
IMMERSION PHASE AS IT THE
ACTIVITIES DONE HERE INCLUDES
THE SENSITIZATION OF THE PEOPLE ON THE CRITICAL EVENTS IN THEIR LIFE, MOTIVATING THEM TO SHARE THEIR DREAMS AND IDEAS ON HOW TO
MANAGE THEIR CONCERNS AND EVENTUALLY MOBILIZING THEM TO MAKE COLLECTIVE ACTION ON THESE.
THE FORMATION OF MORE FORMAL STRUCTURES AND THE INCLUSION OF MORE FORMAL PROCEDURES OF PLANNING, IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING COMMUNITY-WIDE ACTIVITIES. IT IS AT THIS PHASE WHERE THE ORGANIZED LEADERS OR GROUPS ARE BEING GIVEN TRAININGS TO DEVELOP THEIR AS (ATTITUDE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS) IN MANAGING THEIR OWN CONCERNS PROGRAMS
OCCUR WHEN THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION HAS ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED AND THE COMMUNITY- WIDE UNDERTAKINGS. AT THIS POINT, THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES SET-UP IN THE ORGANIZATION-BUILDING PHASE ARE ALREADY EXPECTED TO BE FUNCTIONING BY
WAY OF PLANNING, IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING THEIR OWN
PROGRAMS, W/ THE OVERALL GUIDANCE FROM THE
COMMUNITY-WIDE ORGANIZATION.
THE PHASE WHEN THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS LEAVE THE COMMUNITY TO STAND-ALONE. THIS PHASE SHOULD BE STATED DURING THE ENTRY PHASE SO THAT THE PEOPLE WILL BE READY TO FOR THIS PHASE. THE ORGANIZATIONS BUILT SHOULD BE READY TO SUSTAIN THE TEST OF THE COMMUNITY ITSELF BECAUSE THE REAL EVALUATION WILL BE DONE BY THE
RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY ITSELF.