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COPAR: Empowering Communities Through Action

COPAR (Community Organizing Participatory Action Research) is a social development approach that aims to transform apathetic and voiceless communities into active and politically engaged communities. It is an important tool for community development and empowerment. Through COPAR, community members identify needs and objectives. It prepares people to eventually take over management of development programs. The COPAR process involves several phases: pre-entry, entry, community study, organizational building, action, sustenance, and phasing out as the community is able to manage programs independently.

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COPAR: Empowering Communities Through Action

COPAR (Community Organizing Participatory Action Research) is a social development approach that aims to transform apathetic and voiceless communities into active and politically engaged communities. It is an important tool for community development and empowerment. Through COPAR, community members identify needs and objectives. It prepares people to eventually take over management of development programs. The COPAR process involves several phases: pre-entry, entry, community study, organizational building, action, sustenance, and phasing out as the community is able to manage programs independently.

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Community Organizing

Participatory
Action Research (COPAR)
by DALENE GARBIN
COPAR
A social development approach that aims to transform

the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into

dynamic, participatory and politically responsive

community.

A process by which a community identifies its needs

and objectives 02
COPAR is an important tool for community development

Importance and people empowerment as this helps the community


workers to generate community participation in
development activities.

of COPAR COPAR prepares people/clients to eventually take over


the management of a development programs in the
future.

COPAR prepares people/clients to eventually take over


the management of a development programs in the
future.
PRE-ENTRY ACTION PHASE

COPAR ENTRY
SUSTENANCE AND
STRENGTHENING PHASE

Phases of
Process
COMMUNITY STUDY TURN OVER / PHASING OUT

ORGANIZATIONAL
BUILDING
COPAR
PRE- ENTRY PHASE

PRIMARY SOCIAL INVESTIGATION


Is the initial phase of the organizing process

Phases of Process where the community/organizer looks for


communities to serve/help.
Selection of target community or site.

CRITERIA:
ENTRY PHASE Depress
Opres
This phase signals the actual entry of the Poor
community worker/organizer into the Explaited Area
community.
OCCULAR SURVEY
Social preparation phase.
INTERVIEWS
Courtesy calls SITE IDENTIFICATION
Integration
Deepening social investigation
selecting core group leaders.
COPAR
COMMUNITY STUDY / DIAGNOSIS PHASE

Taking notes of the profile of community and its


people.

Phases of Process - Beliefs and Practices


- Services and facility
- Problems and needs

ACTION PHASE ORGANIZATIONAL BUILDING

Plan comes in to action. Entails the formation of more formal structures and
Project and program are being the inclusion of more formal procedures of
implemented planning, implementation, and evaluating
Organization and training of Community community-wide activities. It is at this phase where
Health Workers the organized leaders or groups are being given
trainings (formal, informal, OJT)
COPAR Phases of Process

Occurs when the community organization Do a culminating program for


has already been established and the formal exit of the nurse
community members are already actively The nurse will be only a
participating in community-wide consultant after phasing out in
undertakings. the community
Ongoing implementation of project and
program

SUSTENANCE PHASE PHASING OUT


H A N K Y O U
T R L I S I NI NG
T !
F O !

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