Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) with Gender Sensitivity

[Dr Evelyn Bacarra Tablante]

I work as Provincial director, Department of Science and Technology, Samar Provincial Science and Technology Office, Brgy. Guindapon, Philippines. We conducted community assessment using the tool Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) with Gender Sensitivity @ Mamanwa Tribe w/ GAD expert Aivan Lloyd Calonia.

 The goal of including gender sensitivity in the process of CLCP is to mainstream gender within the tool. So the better question really is, how is Gender helping CLCP?

CLCP is a needs assessment tool where communities look into itself what it has, what it lacks and what it can do. Ultimately it points out government agencies and funding partners, what development projects to work not to the community but with the community. Gender comes in to make sure that along the process of identifying what it has, what it lacks and what it intends to do, the community is capacitated with gender lens in order to include all— women, men, people of various SOGIE, PWDs who has distinct and different gender issues— in the development process.

Now, can we do CLCP without gender?

Of course, the CLCP can stand on its own. But to include gender in the process of CLCP, we, as program implementers and development workers, recognized that women and men in the community has distinct needs, issues, and relations that should be considered in the development process. To deny that reality poses threat to the success of the program. Hence, it is necessary to mainstream gender in the CLCP.

University of the Philippines Tacloban

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UP Tacloban’s Ugnayan ng Pahinungód conducts community consultation, kicks off UP<3ME Program

The Ugnayan ng Pahinungód of UP Tacloban College (UPTC) conducted a community life competence process (CLCP) with gender sensitivity workshop with community members in Brgy. Guirang, Basey, Samar on 23-24 February 2024. Around 40 community members from different sectors – the elderly, women, farmers, fisherfolk, out-of-school youth, students, persons with disabilities, and the local government – met with the UPTC team composed of Ugnayan ng Pahinungód coordinator Assoc. Prof. Ervina Espina and 14 UPTC faculty and staff, to discuss sectoral and community concerns and aspirations and formulate a plan of action.

The CLCP workshop at Brgy. Guirang is the initial step in an envisioned community partnership that UP Tacloban hopes to forge with funding support from the Community Empowerment through Science and Technology (CEST) program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Hence, the UPTC team attended a one-day CLCP training on 21 February with resource persons from DOST Region VIII, namely, Dr. Evelyn Bacarra-Tablante, director of the DOST RO VIII Samar Office, and DOST RO8 Science Research Specialist Mr. Aivan Lloyd Calonia to prepare them for the community consultation. CLCP aims to facilitate community action towards addressing a specific issue or concern through a learning cycle that is anchored on the community’s aspirations, sense of ownership, and collective strength and capabilities.

The community partnership with Brgy. Guirang and the municipality of Basey, Samar kicks off UP Tacloban’s municipality empowerment program dubbed UP<3ME or “UP loves municipality empowerment.” This new public service program is in line with the UP System’s strategic plan for 2023-2029, which includes public service for the common good as a strategic priority.