LESSON 1: THE ROLE OF THE YOUTH IN COMMUNITY ACTION
THE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ACTION - the mindset of the youth regarding their role in
their communities can be conditioned by the
- according to the Youth in environment
Nation-Building Act, the youth is
composed of individuals who are 15-30 4. Priorities
years old
- are things that are often regarded as more
- they make up around one third of the important than others
Philippine population
YOUTH IN COMMUNITY CHANGE:
FACTORS AFFECTING YOUTH #NowPH
PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY
- (Not on Our Watch Philippines) a project
● Education formed in partnership with the National Youth
● Values Commission (NYC), the Climate Change
● Parental Involvement Commission (CCC), and the YesPinoy
Foundation. Launched in 2015, #NowPH
FACTORS AFFECTING YOUTH FROM encourages the country’s youth to participate in
PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY the worldwide movement against climate change
ACTIVITIES
LESSON 2: SELECTED CASES OF
- insufficient recognition of their COMMUNITY ACTION INITIATIVES
abilities and contribution
COMMUNITY ACTION INITIATIVES
- limited opportunities to become
involved in government affairs - are a way of government, along with
other organizations, to cater to the
CULTIVATING ATTITUDES, VALUES, needs of communities
MINDSETS AND PRIORITIES
- it is anchored by objectives that are
● Attitude based on specific concerns that groups
● Values in the area want to address
● Mindsets
● Priorities COMMUNITY INITIATIVES PLANNED
BY THE GOVERNMENT
1. Attitude
1. Philippine Open Partnership National
- made up of affective, behavioral, cognitive Action Plan
components
- was created to fulfill and formalize initiatives in
2. Values reforming the government
- refers to the beliefs or ideals shared by the 2. The Homeless People’s Federation
members of the group Philippines, Incorporated (HPFPI)
- the values will serve as the basis of what is - implemented projects to help those who have
desirable or not to the group lost their homes due to disasters
- values can also influence one’s attitude - it has organized projects to assist the
communities in preparing for and recovering
3. Mindsets
from disasters
- defined as a set state of mind
3. Community Action Extension Programs
in State Colleges and Universities
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- launched community action extension 3. Health and Survival
programs that involve the use of technology to 4. Political Empowerment
improve farm productivity and attaining
Livelihood Enterprise Development to reduce FORM OF GENDER INEQUALITY
poverty 1. Women work longer than men
4. Comprehensive Community Initiatives 2. Ownership inequality
3. Survival inequality
- involve partnership conducting several 4. Gender bias in the distribution of
interrelated and simultaneous activities education and health
5. Gender inequality and freedom of
EXAMPLES OF COMPREHENSIVE expression
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES 6. Gender inequality with respect to
1. UNICEF trainings violence and victimization
- for health workers ➔ Include gender inequality in the
curriculum to address gender equality
2. Sanayan sa Kakayahang Industriyal issues.
(SKIL) ➔ Provide strategic interventions at all
levels of programming and policy
- which focuses on technical skills training such making in the country that include
as welding, automotive mechanics and reproductive health, economic
refrigeration empowerment, educational and political
3. Sanayan sa Kakayahang Agrikultura environment.
(SAKA) ➔ Accept the concept, as suggested by
most researchers, that working with
- which assist out-of-school youth from poor men and women, boys and girls in
families in gaining employment and livelihood promoting gender equality will
opportunities contribute to achievement of health and
development outcomes.
LESSON 3: GENDER EQUALITY
➔ Initiatives to fight gender inequality
GENDER EQUALITY
LESSON 4: HUMAN RIGHTS
- similar to sexual equality
● What are HUMAN RIGHTS?
- entails the idea that all human beings,
-In the Philippines, it is defined as the civil and
both men and women, have the freedom
political rights of a person.
to develop themselves in terms of their
personal abilities and choices -It is introduce in the 1987 Phil.Constitution
GLOBAL GENDER GAP REPORT IN THE -Human rights embrace moral standards of any
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM member of a community
- published in 2016 presented the levels -Human rights allow a person to live with
of gender equality in various countries dignity and in peace, away from the abuses that
can be inflicted by abusive institutions or
- the Philippines improved in its rank
individuals. But the fact remains that there are
with regards to gender equality, being
rampant human rights violations around the
the highest in Asia and 7th out of 144
world.
countries
-In the Philippines, the rights of Filipinos are
AREAS EXPLORED IN TERMS OF
expressed in Article III of the 1987
GENDER EQUALITY
Philippine Constitution.
1. Economic Participation
2. Educational Attainment
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