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Strategies of Empowerment,

Advocacy for Community Action


Initiatives and the Importance of
Commitment and Action towards
Participatory Development
Empowerment
and Advocacy

Advocating and volunteering


for a cause you care about is
the best way to empower your
family and to let legislative
leaders know that they
represent everyone in their
district, including your family
and hence, must address
certain issues/concerns that
affect you and the entire
community.
Community partnerships
are driving empowerment. If it
is distributed through
collective participation to its
members of the community
as well as to the external
community or community
organizer, and resonate with
the youth and the students,
this will indeed reduce the
disparity.
Through community
engagement and solidarity, the
objectives of the activity will not
be put into oblivion but to a
greater extent if commitment
towards participation is the
ultimate desire, where its aim is
directed to civic consciousness
through community solidarity
and work towards a solution to
meet its own needs.
Consequently, implementation
of its goals can be successfully
achieved.
Formulate 4 catchy
advocacies that
people may use in
order to empower
local community in
terms of education,
security, proper
garbage disposal,
gender sensitivity.
It is important to involve
people in the design and
implementation of
development interventions
to ensure ownership and
sustainability. It is not easy
to get people's
participation, but there are
tried and tested ways to
elicit people's participation.
People's participation
can be incorporated
into different stages of
development
intervention. Hence,
there is no reason why
people cannot be
involved in charting
their own
development.
Empowerment has different
types (social, economic,
political) domains (society,
market, state), and levels
(local, intermediary, macro,
super-macro). It would be wise
to know their differences. The
different components of
empowerment help steer
people away from developing a
dole-out mentality.
Empowerment and
participation reciprocate and
fuel one another. But before
empowerment takes place,
participation must first occur.
There are different levels of
participation. These levels
serve as a usual guide to
identify people's level of
involvement in charting their
development.
What is 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.
Advocating and participating for a cause is
somewhat gratifying because everyone who
is involved in that particular project being
implemented in a community feels good
knowing that he or she is part of the success
of something that brings benefit to the
community.
WHAT IS ADVOCACY?

Before direct action


comes planning, and
before planning comes an
understanding of what
needs to be put in plan.
So first, here's a reminder
of what advocacy is (as
well as what it's not).
- An activity by an individual or group that aims to
influence decisions within political, economic, and
social institutions. - The act of speaking on the behalf
of or in support of another person, place, or thing.

WHAT IS - An active promotion of a cause or principle


ADVOCACY?

- Involves actions that lead to selected goals


WHAT IS ADVOCACY?

- One of the many possible strategies, or ways to approach a


problem

- Can be used as part of a community initiative, nested in with


other components.

- does not necessarily involve confrontation or conflict


Some examples may help clarify just what
advocacy is:
You join a group that helps build houses for the poor--that's wonderful, but
it's not advocacy (it's service)

You organize and agitate to get a proportion of apartments in a new


development designated as low to moderate income housing - that's
advocacy

You spend your Saturdays helping sort out goods at the recycling center -
that's not advocacy (it's service)
You heard that land used for the recycling center is
going to be closed down and you band together
with many others to get the city to preserve this site
or find you a new one. Some of you even think
about blocking the bulldozers, if necessary. That's
advocacy.
Empowerment and Advocacy

Empowerment and advocacy are social democratic


practices that enable people to overcome barriers and
contribute focus on social justice. They enable social
workers to help give people changes to better
understand and hence, experience a better quality of
life.
Empowerment and Advocacy

Empowerment helps its client make better


decisions and control their own lives by reducing
social or personal barriers, increase the ability to
use their own power, and transfer power to
people who lack it.
Empowerment and Advocacy

Advocacy seeks to better represent the interests of


clients with limited power to powerful individuals and
social structures. At this time, empowerment ideas are
being displaced in their importance by the growth in the
concept of advocacy although both areas are relevant
to social work.
Empowerment Strategies that will foster
Personal Growth
Positivity
Self – confidence
Meditation
The people around you
Priorities
Empowerment Strategies
that will foster Personal
Growth
1. – positive
attitude is of great
importance in empowerment
strategies. Negative energy
will not only slow your growth
but will also affect
performance.
Empowerment Strategies
that will foster Personal
Growth

2. –
believing in yourself and
in your capabilities is
the only way for you to
at least reach the
unreachable.
Empowerment
Strategies that will
foster Personal Growth

3. –
Meditating daily will
help you relieve your
brain of all chaos and
insecurities.
.
4

– it is
Empowerment very important to
Strategies that will
foster Personal
surround yourself with
Growth people who are
positive and
encouraging.
Empowerment Strategies
that will foster Personal
Growth

5. - You will
feel empowered only when
your head and your
objectives are in the right
place.
Principles of Community Action

Opens doors
Turns hope Treats people
and leads the Empathize
into reality with respect
way

Mirrors the
Gives a voice
Says “Yes” diversity of our
to the poor
communities
Principles of Community Action
1. Opens doors and leads the way – providing access to the opportunities
people need to improve their lives.

2. Turns hope into reality – identifying the needs of the entire community,
collaborating with others, and taking action to improve life for everyone in the
community.

3. Empathize - understanding and sharing the feelings with the group.


Principles of Community Action

4. Treats people with respect – treating others the way we want to be


treated.

5. Says “Yes” - If we do not provide the needed service, we link you to


those who do.

6. Gives a voice to the poor -seeking to make society more flexible and
responsive to the needs of the poor.

7. Mirrors the diversity of our communities – the society includes low-


income people, local public officials, business and community groups.
Make a particular campaign/advocacy that will be
beneficial to empower your local community.
Make sure that the campaign / advocacy that you
are going to initiate is applicable in your own
locality. Use long bond paper.
Format:
1. Name of your campaign/ advocacy
2. Specific Goals of your campaign / advocacy
3. Specific beneficiaries
4. Steps to implement the campaign / advocacy
Individual School-
based situation: If
you will be given the
chance to be one of
the student leaders
in your school, what
will be the changes
that you want to
advocate? And
why?

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