Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR)

Community Organizing Participatory Action Research (COPAR)COPARMiddle ground where healthcare worker and the people need to attain community organization.A liberal freedom of the community where the people are allowed to participate in the overall health care status of their community.Transformation force that enables the individual, families and communities to be responsible for their own health.Phenomenon of interest goals and objectives at the health care workers and the people in their way to health citizenry.Phases of COPAR Process1. Pre-entry phaseThe initial phase of the organizing process where the community organizer looks for communities to serve or help. It is the most complex phase in terms of actual outputs, activities and strategies, and time spent for it.Recommended activity:State the objectives, and realization of COPAR guidelineLaying out the site criteriaSite selectionMeeting and courtesy call to the local government unit of the selected site.Courtesy call to the barangay levelMeeting with the will be foster parents of the healthcare students.Setting the target date of immersion, exposure and departure. 2. Entry Phase (Immersion)immersion phase as the activity done here includes the sensitization of the people in the critical events in their life, motivating them to share their dreams and ideas on how to manage their concerns and eventually mobilizing them to make collective action on these. This phase signals the actual entry of the community worker/ organizer into the community.Recommended activity:Courtesy call to mayor, or the local government leaders of the selected siteCourtesy call to the barangay levelMeeting with the foster parentsAppreciating the environmentMeeting with the community officials and residentGeneral assemblyPreparation of survey formsActual surveyAnalysis of the data gathered3. Organization-Building PhaseThe formation of more formal structures and the inclusion of more formal procedures of planning, implementing and evaluating community wide activities. Organized leaders or groups are being given trainings (formal/informal) to develop their ASK (attitude, skills and knowledge) in managing their own concerns or programs.Recommended activities:Meeting with officialsIdentify problemsSpreading awareness and soliciting solution or suggestionsAnalysis with the presented solutionPlanning of the activityOrganizing the people to build their own organizationRegistration of the organization (legality purpose)Implementation of the said activityEvaluation4. Strengthening and sustenance phase Community organization has already been established and the and the community wide undertaking. Different committees set-up in the organization-building phase are already projected to be functioning by way of planning. Implementing and evaluating their own programs, with the over all guidance from the community-wide organization.Recommended activities:Meeting with the organizational leadersEvaluation of the programRe-implementation of the program (for unmet goals) Education and trainingNetworking and trainingConduct of mobilization on health and development concernsImplementation of livelihood projectsDeveloping secondary leaders5. Phase outHealthcare workers leave the community to stand alone. This phase should be stated during the entry phase so that the people will be ready for this phase. The organizations built should be ready to sustain the rest of the community itself because the real evaluation will be done by the residents of the community itself. Recommended activities:Leaving the immersion siteDocumentation