Community Organizing Strategies for Social Housing

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Community Organizing Strategies for Social
Housing

• ISSUE-BASED CO TRIPARTISM

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Issue-based Community Organizing

• One of the approaches in building peoples
  organization- self-reliant, independent,
  self-governing and automous
• The process has enabled people who perceive that
  they are hopeless and powerless to feel that they
  can be empowered to change their unhappy
  situation.

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Action-reflection-action or Conflict
Confrontation method

• Conflict is common where there are competing
  interests (land and housing)
• seeks to get government and people into the
  negotiating table as equals (as tax payers with a
  right to the services of their government)

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Basic CO Steps

• Social Investigation (SI) and Integration
  (immersion)
• Spotting of potential issues
• Agitation for Action
• The pre-action meeting
• The Actual meeting
• Role play

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CO steps

• Mobilization
• Evaluation
• Reflection
• Putting up the organization

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Some Dos Donts on Integration/immersion

• Dress according to the acceptable simplicity of
  the people in the barangay
• Make a courtesy call to the barangay
  captain/council
• Help in the daily chores of your host-family

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Donts

• No messing around the area
• Dont make judgments and side comments while
  talking to the people
• Ideally.., dont write your logbook while talking
  to people

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Basic CO principles

• Throughout the organizing process, the people
  must make their own decision
• People act on the basis of self-interest
• Start where the people are but do not end where
  they are

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CO and Tripartism

• TRIPARTISM A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AND AMONG
  STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE PO-NGO-GO