The document discusses problems facing typical Filipino communities, including poverty, poor living conditions, unemployment, low education levels, and more. It emphasizes the importance of genuine citizen participation and involvement in decision making, implementation, and evaluation of development programs. Key elements of successful community organization and development include leadership, teamwork, transparency, and addressing felt community needs.

1. Towards a Genuine People’s Participating in Community Organizing Reading Material for PA 113 Community Organization & Cooperative Development

6. As Spiegel notes, "Citizen participation is the process that can meaningfully tie programs to people" (1968).

7. Community participation is an active process by which beneficiary or client groups influence the direction and execution of a development project with a view to enhancing their well-being in terms of income, personal growth, self-reliance or other values they cherish.

10. Leadership and teamwork – key elements of success.

13. GUIDING PRINCIPLES Go to the people Live among them Learn from them Plan with them Work with them Start with what they know Build on what they have

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15. Community and cooperatives are seen as complementary componentsof a participatory development process . The community in its three fold connotation of space, place and sentiment –depends on cooperatives in order to better create an environment of self-sutained and self-relint growth

16. The cooperative depends on the community as territorial socio economic background in order to receive legitimate and support for its activities. Such an interdependence creates a complementary of inputs and outputs which in turn are expected to bear heavily on the tempo and kind of community development actions that may help this reciprocity toemerge and develop

18. Community Development And Cooperative Formation Process Orientation and Structural Change Mature self mangement and Community Community Needs Cooperativeand Community in Interaction The Flow Process of Community – Cooperative Interaction

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