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Calendar 2nd Term A.Y. 2020-2021

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Community Profiling Brgy Sibulan During CHED Course in Community Engagement and Organizing Batch 2019

This is a narrative in pictures of a community profiling conducted at Brgy Sibulan, Nagcarlan, Laguna.  It is one of the university's successful communities and was chosen to be the site for immersion and community profiling under the Commission on Higher Education program for the training of future community development coordinators.  This is the second batch of trainees and I was fortunate to be chosen to be funded for this.  My team was tasked to do political, social, and economic profiling, and our team chose to use participatory mapping and transect walk as data collection tools.

Following are pictures of the community profiling where my team met w select community members, youth, women, government, etc. to map out nodes and lines of power in the community to help map out the political structure.  We would ask participants for existing points of power (i.e. government offices, residences of government officials, places to go to when in need, etc.) then we have them write each on Post-its and place on a map in the barangay hall (thankfully they had a geographic map on the wall).

 

Here are close up views of the data on the mapping.  

The day after the participatory mapping, we met different community members for a transect walk.  Here we went on an interview tour on the main streets of the community both noting the data from yesterday's mapping, and asking questions on economic and political resources.

Once data was collected, we used appropriate modes of analyses.  For the participatory mapping, we analyzed by tracing the locations and by graphing the institutions and organizations.  We did the same for economic resources.  Once done, we conducted a SWOT analysis on these data.  below are pictures of the team working at the community's chapel. 

During our training, our mentors asked us for materials that we would want to request for the immersion.  A guide though was that we have to use non-technological materials since we're doing field work.  Hence aside from the Post-its, we had lots of yellow paper for notes, Carolina, Manila papers, and colored markers along with some tapes and scissors.  

Below are pictures on when we were still doing in-classroom training, note the use of Manila papers for our class presentations.

Data once organized were laid out in presentation form for presentation to the community for validation.  These materials once validated were given to the community as a parting gift, adding to the community's tools.

Since we were undergoing training, we also had preliminary presentations before our mentors and some community representatives to help iron out the data.  One very important advice we received from our mentors was to make the presentation audience friendly, use visualizations, graphs, pictures, instead of being wordy (words belong more to the presenter and less in the visual aids).  After the preliminary presentations, we continued to perfect the materials for the validation presentation to community stakeholders.

On our last day, we presented the analyzed data to the community.  We had several groups of stakeholders and each gave constructive comments if not affirmations on the data as presented above.  Below are pictures of the validation presentations.

When we got back in Manila, our team got together via FB Messenger and through Google Docs to create to manuscript of the community profile.  For UST-AB Student Community Leaders, the resulting manuscript in the link below.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OsnJ_-PbpD-C7z1_gUkZq701txkGqcPU?usp=sharing

Proposal Dossier

 The list you need for project proposal:

1. Cover Letter (a. to Dean, b. Simbahayan Director, c. OSA Director)
2. Proposal (Emergency Project Proposal From 45) 
3. Community Development Endorsement and Approval Form
4. Project Proposal Checklist
5. Endorsement
6. E-Reserve
7. HEI Form

Simbahayan Forms can be accessed here:

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Community Profiling

Community Development is not simply going to the community to dole out goods, though of course, the small help that one gives when partnered with learning activities or trainings can help those who are in need by giving them the means to begin to stand up.  But the beginning of development is in knowing the community first, one is not helping when the help given is forced and not needed when there's actual needs.  I intend this to be a simple primer in preparing for profiling.  The bullet lists below can provide a panorama of ideas and options useful to any community development leader.

Rationale/Objective

• Describe the current state of the community.
• Describe/explain the community's needs at present.
• Describe the current situation of the environment.
• Describe the current situation of the economy/financial capacity or status.
• Describe the current situation of the health; physical or mental.
• Describe the current situation of the literacy, whether adults or students.
• Describe the current situation of the community's capacity for disaster risk reduction and management.
• Describe the current situation of community members' spiritual needs or capacities.
• Describe the current situation of community members' leadership needs or capacities. 

These are just samples, they can be used, mixed and matched, or be used as platforms for new and better ideas.  The same holds true for what follows.

How to Conduct

• Interviews - separate interviews from participants to avoid collusion.
• Focus Group Discussions - representative participants to pool together ideas.
• Transect Walk - to document human street life in the community.
• Participatory Activities - mapping, graphing, video making - lets the community members actively give inputs in a creative manner.
• Immersion - to ground the understanding of the community.

Suggested Phases

• 1 phase to gather data
• 1 phase to organize data
• 1 phase to present the data back to the community for validation

Ideal Output

• Video
• Participatory Video 
• Documentary
• Vlog or Blog
• Infographics
• Paper
• Thesis
• Monograph
• Journal Article

Community Profile v Impact Study

• Community Profile should precede a community development program.
• Community Impact Study should be used before ending a program.
• A program is a sustained community development agenda for a community targeting a 1 or more areas of development. 

Important Reminders

These ones cannot be neglected, not a list of choices but a list of 'musts.'

• Archive raw data (e.g. in a G Drive)
• Adopt research ethics
• Protect respondents
• Practice informed consent
• Use anonymity for respondents