08 Roles And Activities Of A Community Organizer

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ROLES AND ACTIVITIES OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

1. Organizing work is not fully the sole responsibility of the community organizer. The staff of the project (HRDP Team) must be involved in such work at any given period of time or phase of

2. The community organizer of the team live – in the community for a considerable length of time to establish rapport with the resident and imbibe

arrangement is not feasible because of limitations of the team, full integration may be achieved by planning their visits and interactions with residents. In some cases, it may help to spend two or three days straight in a week to really get to know

4. The HRDP team should build regular actionreflection-action sessions among themselves with the core group. This is especially important in order to assess their strong points and weak points and the progress of their activities in the

5. The team should keep a logbook to record their day-to-day activities. Documentation will be useful in planning. This skill will have to be transferred to the community.

BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION • 1. Contributes to the establishment of an environment maximizing all the community resources. • 2. Allows various groups to examine their programs to determine how well they are meeting their problems.

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3. People are given the chance to look into their problems, think for solution and to plan for actions to solve their problems of concerns. 4. People working together will give strong community unity and coherence, to develop among various sectors or groups within the community thereby developing the feeling of responsibility for making the program plans successful. 5. Sets up an action pattern to solve problems of the community within itself making the community a slf reliant community.

THE COMMUNITY HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Guideline principles in Health Organization and the Leadership Role

• 1. The PHCC are leaders among with the people. • 2. The PHCC should always act in consultation with the general membership.

3. The PHCC should exercise collective type of leadership

• A. No individual officer should monopolize decision-making • B. Critical/major policies, guidelines and activities should be discussed and decided at the committee.

It is the PHCC that should: • A. Hold regular meetings to plan and assess activities undertaken by the committee.

It is the PHCC that should: • B. Assist in the household surveys

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• C. Monitoring/supervise implementation of plans in community

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• D. Coordinate with the RHU and other appropriate local agencies in the community for health and related concerns.

It is the PHCC that should: • E. Follow – up the VHW’s and assist in the evaluation of their performance based on the system/mechanism for supervision and evaluation. • F. Lead in mobilizing community residents for health campaigns and other health related activities

It is the PHCC that should: • G. Conduct fund raising activities to support health program • H. Coordinate with other development-oriented groups in the community for common undertakings.