Department of Education - Republic of the Philippines

Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship – Grade 12

Self Learning Module
Quarter 4 – Module 2: Strategies of Empowerment, Advocacy for Community
Action Initiatives and the Importance of Commitment and Action towards
Participatory Development
First Edition, 2020

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 What I Need to Know

LEARNING COMPETENCY:

The learners analyze strategies of empowerment and advocacy through community

action (HUMSS_CSC12-IIIH-J-15).

Explain the importance of commitment and action in participatory development for

community well-being. HUMSS_CSC12-IIIh-j-16

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. Eventually, 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.

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 At the end of the module, you should be able to:

1. Generate a conceptual definition of advocacy and empowerment;

2. Create a particular advocacy to empower the community;
3. Recognize the importance on how advocacy can empower the community
action initiatives; and
4. Explain participatory development and ways on how to encourage people
’s
participation.

What I Know

Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the word True if the statement gives
a correct idea and write the word False if not. Write your answers
in your notebook.
1. A positive attitude is of great importance when it comes to empowerment
strategies.

2. Advocacy is engaging in purposeful action that will help people advance their
rights, opportunities, causes and human dignity.

3. Community assets include skills, interests, and experiences of individuals and

local organizations.

4. If we do not provide the needed service, we will link you to those who do”, this
statement is a good principle for community action.

5. Empowerment helps client make better decisions and control their own lives by
increasing social barriers and limiting the ability to use their own power.

6. You join a group that helps build houses for the poor. The statement is an
example of advocacy.

7. Strategy seeks to ensure that all people in the society are able to have their
voice heard on the issues that are important to them.

8. Community action provides access to opportunities that people need to improve

their lives.

9. Self-confidence is an empowerment strategy that enables every member of the

community to perform their roles and responsibilities well.

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 10. Empowered People feel more confident, cooperative, and supportive in any
organizations they belong.

What’s In

Task 1. Direction: Write the essential concepts for each item (3 sentences at most) as
discussed in the previous module “The Core Values of Community Action Initiatives.” Do it
in your notebook.

1. human rights
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. social equity
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

3. gender equality
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

4. participatory development
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
TASK 2. Direction: Identify at least 4 advocacies that the people may devise in order to
empower your local community in terms of education, security, proper garbage disposal,
gender sensitivity, human rights, etc.

My Own
Advocacies

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 What’s New

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.
(https://www.lexico.com/definition/empowerment)

What is It

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.

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 - The act of speaking on the behalf of or in support of another person, place, or
thing.
- An active promotion of a cause or principle
- Involves actions that lead to selected goals
- 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 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. 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

1. Positivity – positive attitude is of great importance in empowerment strategies.

Negative energy will not only slow your growth but will also affect
performance
2. Self - confidence – believing in yourself and in your capabilities is the only way
for you to at least reach the unreachable
3. Meditation – Meditating daily will help you relieve your brain of all chaos and
insecurities.
4. The people around you – it is very important to surround yourself with people
who are positive and encouraging.

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 5. Priorities - You will feel empowered only when your head and your objectives
are in the right place.

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
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

What’s More

Task 3: Make a particular campaign/advocacy that will be beneficial to empower

your local the community. Make sure that the campaign / advocacy that you are
going to make is applicable in your own locality. Use long bondpaper.

Format:
1. Name of your campaign/ advocacy
2. Specific Goals of your campaign / advocacy
3. Specific beneficiaries
4. Steps to implement the campaign / advocacy

Rubric
Criteria Description Points
Organization The ideas were systematically arrange and 10
creatively conveyed
Content Ideas were clearly used and explained 5
Relevance The idea presented is achievable 5
Task 4:
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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Rubric
Criteria Description Points
Organization The ideas were clearly and creatively conveyed 10
Content Ideas are clearly used and explained 5
Relevance The whole contents are relevant and practical to 5
school changes and development

What I Have Learned

Write your reflection in this lesson using the format below.

I have learned that ______________________________ _______________.

I have realized that _____________________________________________

_____.
_________________
I will
_________________ _______________.
_________________apply_________________________________________

What I Can Do

Task 1: GAME (4PICS1WORD)

Below are group of pictures. Think of a word which corresponds to
each group. Write your answer in your notebook.

Picture #1 Picture # 2

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 ELMROPB

TYMMOCUIN
Picture #3 Picture #4

YCADOVAC
REWPOEMMENT

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+advocacy&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.8871j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Task 2: A
Conceptual definition of advocacy through Concept map. Copy the figure in your notebook
and write inside the 4 cycles word or phrases that may define advocacy

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 ADVOCACY

Task 2 B

Define empowerment through a Ray Web Organizer.

Copy the chart in your notebook and write the words or phrases in each ray that
may define the word empowerment.

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 Assessment

A. Draw a smiley if the statement gives a positive idea about empowerment

and advocacy and a sad face if not.

1. Community action provides access to opportunities people need to improve life.

2. Surrounding ourselves with enthusiastic people will help us feel empowered and
capable of achieving our goals.

3. A daily meditation routine is a waste of time if you will never see the positivity and
the goals clearly.

4. Advocacy is engaging in purposeful action that will help people advance their
rights, opportunities, causes and human dignity.

5. Empowerment strategies like self-confidence and positivity can lead you closer to
your goals.

6. You can never achieve your goals through hard work and determination.

7. An empowering approach is about working in ways which will empower people.

8. Advocacy is an active promotion of a cause or principle,

9. Advocacy is an annoying support or recommendation of a particular cause or

policy.
10. Self-confidence is an empowerment strategy that enables every member of the
community to perform their roles and responsibilities well.

B. Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your notebook.

1. What do you think are the significance of having empowering strategies towards
community action?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

2. What makes advocacy the heart of every community?

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 Additional Activities

Create a song or a poem that will show the importance of advocacy and
empowerment in community action initiatives.

RUBRIC
Criteria Description Points
Content The ideas are very much
related to the topic 10
Organization There is unity between the lines
and the stanzas which connect 10
to the topic
Creativity The poem or song uses
metaphor or simile to describe 5
situation, object or people.
Total Score 25

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References
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(https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/advocacy-principles/overview/main)

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+for+advocacy&oq=images+for+advocacy&aqs=chrome..
69i57j0l2.8871j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+empowerment&safe=strict&source=lnms&tbm=isc
h&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5wb6xnanrAhWjGaYKHR-lADMQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&biw=1366&bih=657
https://operationmeditation.com/discover/5-empowerment-strategies-that-will-help-in-
yourpersonal-growth/ https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-
contents/advocacy/advocacyprinciples/overview/main
Source: Module 7: Empowerment and Participatory Development

DIWA Senior High School Series

Teacher's Strategy Map

Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship, page 12.

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