Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Community/Organizational Level





Community
Specific population who share a degree of relationships with each other as well as some experiences and self interest which can be addressed on a Collective basis.
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

Bringing people to a sense of their own power to act to achieve their goals.

Empowerment requires a convergence of capacity, which implies the ability to exercise the power, to access institutions, to nurture, to equity, and , that involve the figure of leadership (individual or group).
Organizing
Group process in which a number o people define a common self interest or unmet need.
Strategize and implement plans of action to meet that self interest or need.


TYPES OF FUNCTIONAL COMMUNITY


RATIONAL (political) Community

Public dimension life.



PRODUCTIVE Community

Economic transactions.


AFFECTIVE Community

Relationships of intimacy.

Subjective fulfillment.


Three experiences of community empowerment around the world

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