Chapter 4

Community Organizing: Ensuring Health in the Hands of the People

1. It is defined as the process that seeks to instill and reinforce the people’s self-
confidence in their own collective strengths and capabilities.
A. Primary Health Care
B. Community Development
C. Community Organizing
D. Community Participation
Answer: C

2. Which is statement is not true regarding the emphasis of community organizing in

PHC?
A. People in the community working together
B. PHC is a social movement
C. Health reforms along with community development
D. Community organization as a requirement for health projects
Answer: D

3. Community organizing is based on three core values, one of which seeks

equitable access to opportunities to meet people’s basic needs and dignity. This
best describes the core value of:
A. Human Rights
B. Social Justice
C. Social Responsibility
D. Accessibility
Answer: B

4. Which statement best defines the democratic principle of community organizing

(CO)?
A. Community empowerment in both the process and the outcome of CO
B. Community participation in the entire process
C. CO is achieved through a process
D. CO reflects the decisions and will of the community as a whole
Answer: D

5. CO is directed toward changing the current undesirable conditions of the people.

This means that
A. CO is people-centered
B. CO is participative
C. CO is developmental
D. CO is process oriented
Answer: C

6. Which of these is not an overall goal of community organizing?

 A. People’s Empowerment
B. Building people’s organization
C. Accomplishing community projects
D. Improving the quality of life
Answer: C

7. Which phase of CO requires both the preparation of community organizer and the
selection of the community?
A. Pre-Entry Phase
B. Entry Phase
C. Integration Phase
D. Organizing Phase
Answer: A

8. Which of the following is not among the criteria of choosing a community for the
purpose of CO?
A. Willingness of the community to participate in the process
B. Area is economically depressed and underserved
C. Convenience of the community organizer and institution
D. Safety of the organizers
Answer: C

9. Which phase of CO requires the gathering, collating and analysis of data to gain
understanding of community conditions?
A. Entry Phase
B. Social Analysis Phases
C. Identifying Potential Leaders
D. Core Group Formation
Answer: B

10. All of these are considered as desirable qualities of a potential leader except:
A. They adequately represent the target group or community
B. They enjoy the trust and confidence of the community
C. They are the most educated in the community
D. They have the desire for change and action
Answer: C

11. This is the initial group, usually comprising of the identified potential leaders,
which serves as the foundation of the community organization.
A. Core group
B. Committee
C. Executive Board
D. General Assembly
Answer: A

12. It is also called the mobilization phase of community organizing.

 A. Integration Phase
B. Social Analysis Phase
C. Research Phase
D. Action Phase
Answer: D

13. It is the type of evaluation done during the process of implantation to allow for
revisions or modifications in the project.
A. Formative evaluation
B. Summative evaluation
C. Program-based evaluation
D. Organization evaluation
Answer: A

14. An evaluation done after project implementation.

A. Formative evaluation
B. Summative evaluation
C. Program-based evaluation
D. Organization evaluation
Answer: B

15. An evaluation area concerned with analyzing whether the goals and objectives of
the projects were met or not.
A. Program-based evaluation
B. Organizational evaluation
C. People-based evaluation
D. Structural evaluation
Answer: A

16. Phase(s) of community organizing when the organizer slowly withdraws from the
community and identifies new areas to organize.
A. Social Analysis Phase
B. Research Phase
C. Action Phase
D. Exit and Expansion Phase
Answer: D

17. It is a community development approach that allows the community to

systematically analyze their conditions, plan solutions, implement and evaluate
projects while utilizing the community development process.
A. COPAR
B. PAR
C. PHC
D. Community Organization
Answer: A
18. COPAR is different from traditional research in some aspects. If traditional
research output puts emphasis on the data and its analysis, COPAR’s emphasis is
on:
A. the statistics
B. the presentation
C. the research process
D. the conclusion
Answer: C

19. Which among the following if not true for COPAR?

A. The nurse is the main researcher
B. Tools and methodologies are indentified by the community
C. It is a bottom up process
D. Data analysis is done by the community
Answer: A

20. It is a participatory data-gathering method where the community may be asked to

focus on relationships within the community and the groups outside the
community.
A. Transect walk
B. Venn Diagram
C. Mapping
D. Interview
Answer: B