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Importance of Community Dynamics and Community Action

The document discusses the importance of community dynamics and community action, defining a community as a social unit that shares identity and values, community dynamics as the forces that stimulate growth and change within a community, and community action as activities led by community members to support local services and achieve goals like prevention, wealth creation, and resilience.

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Importance of Community Dynamics and Community Action

The document discusses the importance of community dynamics and community action, defining a community as a social unit that shares identity and values, community dynamics as the forces that stimulate growth and change within a community, and community action as activities led by community members to support local services and achieve goals like prevention, wealth creation, and resilience.

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IMPORTANCE OF

COMMUNITY
DYNAMICS AND
COMMUNITY
ACTION
Group 3
COMMUNITY
A small or large social unit (a group of living things) who
have something in common, such as norms, religion,
values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of
place that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a
country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space
through communication platforms. Durable relations that
extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a
sense of community. People tend to define those social ties
as important to their identity, practice, and roles in social
institutions (such as family, home, work, government,
society, or humanity at-large).
DYNAMICS
3

The forces or properties that stimulate


growth, development, or change within a
system or process "the dynamics of changing
social relations". Communities are critical for
successful agroecosystems. In addition to
increasing private profit, they provide contexts
that support or discourage sustainability and
processes that augment participation
COMMUNITY DYNAMICS 4

It applies to any changes taking place within a group. Such


improvements can be made by collective action. Community shifts
arise when decision makers or members take action. Such activities
relate to the creation or advancement of goods, services and
policies that specifically support a particular community. Factors
such as the needs of the society, the interests of the citizens and the
availability of resources have been addressed in the process.
Community dynamics and collective intervention fall under the
umbrella of economics because they are highly dependent on human
resources [the labor force]. Those are mentioned, but it is fair to
suggest that economics plays a critical role in the understanding of
community dynamics through collective action.
Community Dynamics is the change and development involved in a
community that includes all forms of living organisms.
COMMUNITY ACTION 5

This is putting communities as the center of the services


development and services delivery. This initiative aims to
cater the primary needs of the communities before
implementing it. In such way, **community action** will help
the community dynamics or the degree of improvement of
the community. It is important to understand these two
because these will propel the success and stability of the
communities. They go hand in hand and are proportionally
related.
Community action includes a broad range of activities
and is sometimes described as ‘social action' or ‘community
engagement'. These activities can vary in their objective, the
role the community plays, the types of activities involved,
their scale and their integration within the council. What
they have in common is that they all involve greater
engagement of local citizens in the planning, design and
delivery of local services.
WHY IS COMMUNITY ACTION 6

IMPORTANT?
Community action is about putting communities at the heart
of their own local services. Involving communities in the
design and delivery of services can help to achieve a number
of objectives, including:
A. Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support,
engagement in design, cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
B. Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into
employment or developing community enterprises.
C. Building community and social capacity – helping the community
to share knowledge, skills and ideas.
D. Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
ROLE OF COMMUNITY
The role the community plays can include
community consultation, joint planning, joint design,
joint delivery and community-led activities.
The types of activity can include:
 Asset transfer (either through formal transfer to
bodies such as parish councils or community interest
companies, or transfer of their management to local
community and voluntary groups).
 Making better use of physical resources, such as
council-owned buildings, to support community-led
activities.
 Community engagement in decision-making (for
example through public engagement events where the
community helps to decide local priorities, co-design
or co-commission services).
 Community networks
 Community grants
ISSUES AFFECTING 8

PEOPLE IN THE
COMMUNITY
A.Causes of Poverty
 Low to moderate economic growth
 Slow poverty reduction growth
 Low employment and quality of work
 Lack of fully developed agriculture
 Inflation occurs when crisis happens
 Overpopulation
 High level of inequality in income
Exposure to risks
B. Marginalization 9
The process whereby something or someone is
pushed to the edge of a group and accorded lesser
importance. This is predominantly a social phenomenon
by which a minority or sub-group is excluded, and their
needs or desires ignored.
 Immigrants, Refugees, and Migrants
 Women and Girls
 Victims of Human Trafficking
 Children and Youth
 People of Differing Sexual Orientation (LGBT community)
 People of Differing Religions
 Developmentally Delayed, Physically Disabled, or Mentally ill
People
 Incarcerated People (and their Families)
 People of Low Socioeconomic Status
 Unemployed People
 People of a Particular Ethnicity/Country of Origin
 People with a Differing Political Orientation
THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH 10

IN THE COMMUNITY
The Role of the Youth in Community Action
The saying stresses "KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NANG BAYAN". Youth can change the world through
community development
A. Youth as Community Organizers
When governments won’t engage youth, community groups and nonprofits can step in to engage youth
as community organizers. Through training and empowerment, they can develop unique, powerful
campaigns that engage many people, including children, youth, adults, families and elders.
B. Youth and Government
Participating in regular and sustained government positions, roles and activities can allow youth
community developers to change the world. Roles should be rule voting and frequent, and focus on
engaging diverse young people.
C. Youth as Planners
Young people can participate as community planners in community development work. Using
education and training, they can learn the skills and knowledge they need, and applying their knowledge
they can guide their peers, younger people and adults, too.
ACTIVITY #1 11

COMMUNITY ACTION COMMUNITY DYNAMICS

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