Show Empowering communitiesCommunity empowerment refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over their lives. "Communities" are groups of people that may or may not be spatially connected, but who share common interests, concerns or identities. These communities could be local, national or international, with specific or broad interests. 'Empowerment' refers to the process by which people gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives. It is the process by which they increase their assets and attributes and build capacities to gain access, partners, networks and/or a voice, in order to gain control. Community empowerment is more than the involvement, participation or engagement of communities. It implies community ownership and action that explicitly aims at social and political change. Community empowerment necessarily addresses the social, cultural, political and economic determinants that underpin water management, and seeks to build partnerships with other sectors in finding solutions. Globalization adds another dimension to the process of community empowerment. In today’s world, the local and global are inextricably linked. Action on one cannot ignore the influence of or impact on the other. Community empowerment recognizes and strategically acts upon this inter-linkage and ensures that power is shared at both local and global levels. Communication plays a vital role in ensuring community empowerment. Participatory approaches in communication that encourage discussion and debate result in increased knowledge and awareness, and a higher level of critical thinking. Critical thinking enables communities to understand the interplay of forces operating on their lives, and helps them take their own decisions. Community empowerment is closely related to the concept of “capacity development”. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), capacity development is the process by which individuals, organizations, institutions and societies develop abilities to perform functions, solve problems and set and achieve objectives. It needs to be addressed at three inter-related levels: individual, institutional and societal. Specifically, capacity-building encompasses the country’s human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional and resource capabilities. A fundamental goal of capacity-building is to enhance the ability to evaluate and address the crucial questions related to policy choices and modes of implementation among development options, based on an understanding of environment potentials and limits and of needs perceived by the people of the country concerned. >> Access to a selection of UN publications on capacity-building This is a preview. Log in to get access Abstract Evaluations of community health promotion can underestimate the gains that an intervention might make in a community if the outcomes reported are limited to aggregates of changes in health behaviour or attitude made at an individual level. The notion of 'community' revealed by this type of evaluation is relatively unsophisticated compared to the 'community' rhetoric which often accompanies program definition. Even those evaluations which report policy changes or evaluations of how communities became involved, often fail to capture the improvements a community intervention can make on the problem-solving capacities of a community and its competence in tackling the issues which face it. The essence of what some interventions (intentionally or unintentionally) achieve is, therefore, missed. Empowerment is usually described as a process. But it can be considered as an outcome variable in community interventions if capacity-building is a major activity of an intervention. To capture this in the evaluation design, evaluators should be using active strategies to (i) articulate what empowerment actually means and (ii) challenge what intervention success really means in interactive dialogues with program workers and the community. Active and interactive strategies must be used to clarify program values and intentions because evaluators will be misled or confused by words like 'community involvement', 'community development' or 'community participation' in program documents. These words mean different things to different groups. Similarly, 'empowerment' must be translated into aspects which are recognisable within the life of the program or period of interest. Community psychology is introduced in this paper as a field which may have much to offer in this analysis. Community psychology is a field within psychology which should be distinguished from the more traditional approaches in community-based health promotion which are the legacy of behavioural health psychology. Journal Information Health Promotion International contains refereed original articles, reviews, and debate articles on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. In line with the remits of the series of global conferences on health promotion the journal expressly invites contributions from sectors beyond health. These may include education, employment, government, the media, industry, environmental agencies, and community networks. As the thought journal of the international health promotion movement we seek in particular theoretical, methodological and activist advances to the field. 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Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. What is the meaning of community empowerment?Community empowerment refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over their lives. "Communities" are groups of people that may or may not be spatially connected, but who share common interests, concerns or identities.
What are the types of community empowerment?Community empowerment includes personal (psychological) empowerment, organizational empowerment and broader social and political actions.
What is the real meaning of empowerment?Empowerment means people having power and control over their own lives. People get the support they need that is right for them. Empowerment means that people are equal citizens. They are respected and confident in their communities. You can't empower someone else or make someone empowered.
What is empowerment as a process and as a state?Empowerment is the process of obtaining basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to these opportunities. It also includes actively thwarting attempts to deny those opportunities.
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What term is given to the process whereby people gain mastery over their lives and therefore the lives of their communities?
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