SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), the phi correlation coefficient (<I>) was determined to establish the degree of inter. Tater agreement. Jf there is high interrater agreement, the instrument is said to be reliable (Abaca et al 2006). After the instrument s were proven to have very good and acceptable content validity and reliability, the instrumen ts were employed for the actual evaluation of community competence on varied programs. The process of developing the eva Juation tools for other health progrruns was replicated in other barangays. ln one barangay where community competence in addi:essing the problems on waste management, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, parasitism and unhea Jthy lifestyle was evaluated, the community and tbe students agret:d on the following findings: (Abad et, al, 2007) 1. Community members possess the knowledge and attitudes to deal '1-\'ltb tl1e problems but there is a gi-eat need to develop the skills because of the inadequate compete nce in the psychomotor domain. This is consistent with the iindings in the dimension of self-other awareness and clarity of situation 2. Conflict containment is an asset of the community because of the presence ofleaderswho act as mediators. People remain tohavepeaceful relationship despite differences in ideas and opinjons about the problems. 3. The articulateness dimension needs improvemen t to enable them to communicate with authoritative bodies and other community mem,bers to address the problems. 4. People have to work on their commitment and participation in order to sustain the programs. 5. There is much to improve in relation to creating mechanisms for facilitating participant interaction and decision-making and allo~" people to identify cour. ses of action, put up organizational structures and formulate a plan of implementation for identified areas of action to address problems. 6. Socia] support and management with,-vider society must be strengthened to promote unity in solving health problems and to establish outside linkages. The people realized that it was not enough having the nursing students drift in and out of the community to implement programs. More than anything else, they have the respons ibility to sustain these programs. They also recognized which dimensions of community competence they have to work on. An in1portant realization is the fact that the people consider their communjty leaders or bnrangay officials as solely responsib le to address community health problems. The evaluation results highlighted the important areas for competency-b u Hding towards commun ity development. CONCLUSION The planning stage of the community health nursing process begins with the identification and analysis of problems. Once the health problems are defined, the nurse together with the community identifies what conditions they. want the commnnity to achieve. This will bring her to the next phase of setting the goal and objective s of the plan. Strategies and activities are developed specifying the needed resources 220 