Community action in the Social Sciences perspective

• It involves participation from a big segment of community.

• ​It is participated by well-informed members.

characteristics of community development

• It results to decisions made through a consensus among community members.

• It encourages group building, leadership development, and capacity building among community members, while addressing the issue at hand.

• It uses a systematic approach in addressing local concerns.

• ​It is an examination of community problems and issues in its entirety, and not as isolated and independent cases.

• It uses processes that are flexible and may be applied to other community concerns.

• It is initiated often as a result of a potential or locally perceived crisis.

6 C's of a successful community engagement (Brown and Isaacs, 1994)

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