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CESC Community Profiling

Community profiling provides advocates with insights into a community's attributes, conditions, demographics, resources, economy, and history. A needs assessment identifies what a community needs and lacks by comparing its current and desired situations. A resource assessment identifies available and lacking resources to address community needs. Participatory action planning involves community members in open goal-setting and planning. Implementation and monitoring then assess progress, while evaluation determines a plan's effectiveness in achieving goals and creating desired change. Problems can include lack of community involvement, free riders, resource constraints, political divisions, and bureaucratic barriers.

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CESC Community Profiling

Community profiling provides advocates with insights into a community's attributes, conditions, demographics, resources, economy, and history. A needs assessment identifies what a community needs and lacks by comparing its current and desired situations. A resource assessment identifies available and lacking resources to address community needs. Participatory action planning involves community members in open goal-setting and planning. Implementation and monitoring then assess progress, while evaluation determines a plan's effectiveness in achieving goals and creating desired change. Problems can include lack of community involvement, free riders, resource constraints, political divisions, and bureaucratic barriers.

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LESSON TWO

Community Profiling
 Community profiling provides advocates
with a descriptive insight about the
attributes and conditions of a community. It
typically involves the use of information
concerning the characteristics of a
community, such as its demographic
distribution, material resources, territory,
institutions, local economy, and a description
of a community’s history and culture.
Needs and Resources Assessment
 A needs assessment lets the community identify the things
that it needs.
 The discrepancy between “what is” (current situation)
and “what should be” (desire; intended goal or target) is
referred to as the need. Needs assessment can be
conducted through a survey for the following purposes:
• To learn about community needs;
• To have a more objective and honest description of what
people need;
• To discover possible needs that you thought did not exist
or once considered as not important;
• To document or record needs which can
be used to in applying for funding and
advocating causes; and
• To ensure that the actions you take are
related to the needs of the community.
Needs assessment helps determine what
the community considers valuable and what
problems and issues should be addressed.
 Resource assessment helps the community
be informed about resources (such as
material resources, financial, equipment,
personnel) that can be accessed to address
the needs of the community. Likewise, it
also identifies the resources that a
community lacks and needs to acquire to
achieve its community goals and
objectives.
PARTICIPATORY ACTION PLANNING
AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
 Participatory action planning involves the open
and inclusive engagement of groups and
individuals in a community who have decided to
pursue a goal or solve a problem.
 Compare to action planning that is initiated by
those in positions of authority(top-to-bottom
planning), participatory action planning is a
process that gathers insights and ideas from
community members.
 The planning phase involves specifying the
actions and modes of implementation
required to achieve the intended goals and
objectives that were set, alongside the
vision and mission determined by the
community.
 Typically, not all activities will be
implemented according to the plan. Thus,
actual implementation requires
documentation and constant monitoring..
 While undergoing the planning phase, an
evaluation design should also be taken into
account. An evaluation design enables
implementers of the plan to revisit, countercheck,
and monitor the progress of implementation. It
lets members identify the:
 missteps that they committed in implementing the
plan;
 Note the lessons they learned along the way; and
 Assess whether the over-all intentions of the plan
were accomplished.
 Leadership development is another important
part of the community action process that can
commence during the start of the planning
phase.
 Leaders emanate from a selected group,
volunteers, or individuals, known as the core
working group. Leaders ensure that the
essential tasks, goals, and objectives are
accomplished. .
 Teamwork is a necessary ingredient in
developing leaders. Having competent
leaders increases the possibility of success
of any community action undertaking..
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION

 Resource mobilization is, thus, an important


process that deals with the necessary steps in
raising, maintaining, and sustaining community
support.
 Resource mobilization encompasses the
appropriate, efficient and effective use of
material support (e.g. equipment and hardware),
personnel support(e.g. volunteers), and
knowledge support(e.g. shared information)
PLAN IMPLEMENTATION

 Plan implementation refers to the phase where


actual and concrete implementation of tasks
and activities are done.
 The completion of the objectives is expected to
result to the accomplishment of the goals set
by the community, incurring the desired
change.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION

 Monitoring focuses on the status and


progress of tasks and activities in the
course of implementation of the
community action plan. Monitoring
includes procedures that allow the
tracking of the performance of project
implementers and the effect of resources
in completing tasks and activities.
 On the other hand, evaluation is typically
conducted in the middle and at the end
of the scheduled completion of the
community action plan to evaluate the
effectivity and success of the project.
 There are three types of evaluation.
 Process Evaluation is periodically conducted
(typically mid-way of a planned project or
program) it allows communities to learn from the
implementation process and make adjustments
to ensure their strategy’s effectiveness. It looks
into how the community action plan has been
implemented; it also examines the flows and
bottlenecks in the implementation of tasks and
activities.
 Summative Evaluation is conducted after the
completion of the plan or the end of the
project/program. It focuses on whether or not
the implementation of the project or program
has been completed . It also evaluates and
assesses the output of the project and how said
output fares in relation to the set goals which
were determined during the planning phase.
 Impact Evaluation is concerned with the
outcomes of the
project/program/intervention, particularly
the change that has been incurred.
Outcomes are generally viewed as
changes in conditions or states; it
suggests that the intervention has led to a
positive transformation or desired
condition .
PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN
COMMUNITY PLANNING
 Community action initiatives and
community planning always comes with
problems and issues. There are several
reasons and factors that can cause the
community action and planning to fail.
These factors may be innately present in
the communities, or they may also be
elements found outside the communities.
 For instance, some community members
refused to be involved or to cooperate due to
previous experiences in community planning.
Others repel the idea of community initiatives
thinking that collective action is problematic
because there are individuals that free ride and
take the advantage of the goodwill and
contributions of other members.
 Furthermore, resource constraints such as the
depletion of funds, the concentration of control of
resources to a few individuals , or the inaccessibility
of tools and technologies necessary for the successful
completion of interventions have proven to create
gaps and problems in the effectiveness of community
projects. Politically, the division and factions in the
leadership, the lack of coordination, inadequacy of
competencies, and slow moving bureaucratic
procedures have also impeded the progress of
community initiatives.

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