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Evelina A. Pangalangan Dean

Angelito G. Manalili Jocelyn T. Caragay Readers

Ma. Theresa V. Tungpalan Editor

Anna Zita 8. Abuda Managing Editor

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As part of the extension mechanism of CSWCD, the Research and Extension for Development Office (REDO) shares in the effort to operationalize the College Vision-Mission-Goals by providing assistance to marginalized communities and groups. Its activities focus on training, research, advocacy and networking.

This edition of the CSWCD Journal showcases three (3) community extension projects which REDO has undertaken for almost a decade:

1. PREACH (People's Research for Empowerment and Community Change) - 1988 to 1990;

2. Women CREATE (Women's Consciousness Raising through Edu- cation and Action Tawards Empowerment) - 1987 to 1993;

3. Community-Based Grassroots Training Program in Pasay - 1995 to present.

A synthesis paper entitled 'Towards Strengthening Community Extension Services' attempts to highlight REDO's extension experiences and likewise cite problem areas and challenges in sustaining these concerns.

In the context of the service-oriented academic programs of the College (namely: Community Development, Social Work,Women and Development), community extension is a built-in component in its teaching, research and extension functions. The Field Instruction Program has been the major venue for the faculty and students to pursue extension activities as part of curricular objectives.

The 70's and 80's witnessed how CSWCD's varied activities have responded to the social development needs of the larger society, outside the confines of the classroom. The Office of Research and Publications (OAP) and the Office of Continuing Education and Extension (OCEE), REOO's predecessors, had various projects which had a social action component. The faculty and students have also historically embarked on many service-oriented endeavors in adcfrtion to academic-related fieldwork.

REDO, foritspart, also strives to institutionalize community service within its current program concems. In view of the University's limited resources, however, there is a need to review lessons from its past projects as basis for formulating a more responsive and feasible community extension program.

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College of Social Work & Community Development Administration

Academic Year 1997-1998

EVELINA A. PANGALANGAN,

MSW Dean

ROMEO C. QUIETA, Ph.D.

College Secretary

Unit Heads

BENILDA B. TAYAG,

MCD Chairperson

Department of Social Work

ROSALINDA P. OFRENEO, Ph.D.

Coordinator

Women and Development Program

ROSARIO del ROSARIO,

MA

MA. THERESA V. TUNGPALAN,

Ph.D.

Chairperson Department of Community Dev't.

JETRO G. GAWAEN

Administrative Officer

Director

Research&Extension for Dev't. Office

ROSARIO A. MENEZ,

MA

Librarian

Fieldwork Coordinators

ROSETTE G. PALMA,

MSW

MA. LINNEA V. TANCHULING,

BSCD Department of Social Work Department of Community Dev't.

SYLVIA E. CLAUDIO, MD, Ph.D.

Women and Development Program

Volume 3 Number 1

CONTENTS

People's Research for Empowerment

& Community Change (PREACH):

An Experience in PAR Emmanuel M. Luna

Gender Advocacy In Urban Poor Communities: Experiences from the Women CREATE Leticia S. Tojos

Pakikipagtulungan sa Independent Movement ng Pasay

Roberto P. Alabado Ill Kevin Roy B. Serrona

Towards Strengthening Community Extension Services

Ma. Theresa V. Tungpalan

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FOREWORD