Phases of the COPAR Process

I. Pre-entry Phase
A. Is the initial phase of the organizing process where the community/organizer looks for communities to serve/help.
B. It is considered the simplest phase in terms of actual outputs, activities and strategies and time spent for it.

Activities include:
1. Designing a plan for community development including all its activities and strategies for care [...]

Community Organizing Participatory Research (COPAR)

Definitions of COPAR:
· A social development approach that aims to transform the apathetic, individualistic and voiceless poor into dynamic, participatory and politically responsive community.
· A collective, participatory, transformative, liberative, sustained and systematic process of building people’s organizations by mobilizing and enhancing the capabilities and resources of the people for the resolution of their issues and [...]