The process and structure through which members of a community are/or become
organized for participation in health care and community development activities
Process:
- the sequence of steps whereby members of a community come together to critically
assess to evaluate community conditions and work together to improve those conditions.
Structure:
- refers to a particular group of community members that work together for a common
health and health related goals.
Emphasis of COPAR:
Importance of COPAR:
Site Selection
3. Organization-building Phase
Entails the formation of more formal structure and the inclusion of more formal
procedure of planning, implementing, and evaluating community-wise activities.
It is at this phase where the organized leaders or groups are being given training
(formal, informal, OJT) to develop their style in managing their own
concerns/programs.
Key Activities
Occurs when the community organization has already been established and the
community members are already actively participating in community-wide
undertakings. At this point, the different committees setup in the organization-
building phase are already expected to be functioning by way of planning,
implementing and evaluating their own programs, with the overall guidance from
the community-wide organization.
Key Activities