Community Assessment

1. Community Assessment Internal Analysis

2. Historical Performance and Program Accomplishments • New people’s organization • Current focus: land acquisition • Many programs implemented when Kalayaan was still with PATAMABA-National • not well coordinated • lack of project managers lack of monitoring • funds as major concern • Currently in the process of establishing themselves as a separate entity • Renamed organization • Structural changes (NGO  PO)

3. Vision and Strategy • VMO patterned after National PATAMABA’s • Not aligned with the current situation and problems

4. Leadership and Management Style • Leadership style unclear due to recent reorganizing of organizational structure • Secretary has good leadership skills • She is thede facto president of the organization • There is still room for improvement

5. Organization Structure

6. Rewards and Motivation • The organization cannot provide financial benefits to any of its officers and members • But according to organizational laws, officers are entitled to receive monetary compensation when there are sufficient funds

7. Weakness • A very new organization • Reliance on one particular individual • Complicated organizational framework • Organization’s desires are myriad • But individual capabilities in terms of information and physical resources are limited

8. Strengths • Members’ passion and enthusiasm for the organization’s projects, both current and proposed • Relative smallness of the organization lends itself to a personality-oriented leadership style • Clear admiration for their leader’s work ethic translates into more effective involvement from the members • Members have little to work with Greater motivation and passion for the organization’s ideals • Virtually assures the full cooperation of members

9. Analysis of Issues and Generation of Alternative Strategies/Programs

10. SWOT Analysis

11. SWOT Analysis

12. SWOT Analysis

13. TOWS Analysis

14. Analysis of Issues • The scope of their as-yet-unstated vision has a broad theme • To address individual economic and social stability of members • Lack of capability to address needs at an individual level  strength in numbers • Relatively weak capabilities of individuals in terms of resources • Need to include individual member concerns in addition to those of the larger group • Philippine situation of widespread poverty as backdrop to situation • Need for massive scale interventions

15. Analysis of Issues • Lack of economic stability • Microfinancing as an option • But knowledge and actual availability of such alternatives are limited • Limited opportunities for sponsorship • Lack of security • No permanent residence, no land • No assets • Government social housing project opportunities are too few • Struggles in negotiating the partisan nature of local politics

16. Analysis of Issues • Health • Poverty makes it difficult for them to make this into a real priority • Lack of health knowledge from poor educational opportunities • Preponderance of both infectious and non-infectious diseases in their community • Private healthcare is unaffordable to most of them • Unresponsive government-provided healthcare system

17. Analysis of Issues • Address internal factors • Define what it wishes to do in terms of its VMO • What will the organization do in the long run? • The leader should have plans in place for transition of responsibilities • The group should also focus on ways to generating sustainable income

18. Possible Programs to Address the Issues • Fundraising for A Community Center • Microfinancing and Entrepreneurship • Multipurpose Cooperative • Health Education Programs