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Empowerment Analytic
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4 Empowerment Components
 Empowerement

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Empowerment is equate:
(1) to having the ability to make one's own decisions, control, and gain and be listened to and;
(2) to being free, independent, and recognized and accepted as equal citizens, who can make
difference.
Empowerment could either be a process (power with) or a state (power within).
Empowerment as a process is defined as "enhancing the capacity of individual or group to
make purposive choices and transform them into desired actions and outcomes. On the other
hand, empowerment as a state is defined as "an individual or group having the capacity to both
make purposive choices and transform them into desired actions and outcomes".
Three Major

Types of

Empowerment
1 Social Empowerment

Social Empowerment refers to the capacity of

an individual to make effective choices so that
his or her own place in society will be
respected and recognized in terms of what he
or she wants to live by, and not on what others
dictate.
2 Economic Empowerment

Economic Empowerment refers to one's capacity

to make effective choices so that he or shedistr
can contribute to economic growth (through
labor or the production of goods and services),
and benefit from a fairer distribution of its
advantage (through access to private sectors).
3 Political Empowerment

Political empowerment refers to the

individual's capacity to make
effective choices in order to increase
equity in political institutions and be
engaged in the democratic process.
Three Major

Domains of

Empowerment
1 Society

Society includes intra-household and

intra-community relationships. Here, a
person or a group is considered a social
actor.
2 Market

Market includes labor, goods, and private

services. Here, a person or a group is
considered an economic actor.
3 State

State includes the realm of justice,

politics, and public service. Here, a
person or a group is considered a
civic actor.
Four Levels of

Empowerment
 LOCAL INTERMEDIARY

Intermediary refers to the larger

Local refers to the community where the person or
immediate neighborhood group is not engaged in a daily basis
or community. It tends to fall between the
residential and national levels.

MACRO SUPRA-MACRO

Macro refers to a large context Supra-Macro refers to the

where a person operates and is international or global
generally considered the community.
national level.
 Types of Domains of Levels of
Empowerment Empowerment Empowerment

Local, Intermediary,
Social Society Macro, Supra-Macro

Local, Intermediary,
Economic Market Macro, Supra-Macro

Local, Intermediary,
Political State
Macro, Supra-Macro
Empowerment Analytical

Framework

Agency refers to an
individual or a group's
ability to make
The Empowerment Analytical Framework helps us to meaningful choices
determine an individual's or a group's degree of empowerment. and purposively
choose options
It is appropriate to determine whether community
engagement has led to the empowerment of people in the
community or not Opportunity Structure
According to Alsop, Bertelsen, and Holland (2006), an refers to the contextual
factors that affects an
individual's or group's degree of empowerment is shaped by individual's or group's
the combination of agency and opportunity structures. ability to transform
agency into effective
action.
 ASSETS
Financial - sources of income, debt ,
and savings.
Human - education (numeracy an
literacy, skills, and health status.
Informational - access to informal and
formal sources of information such as
radio, television, newspaper, and
Internet.
Material - ownership of land,
equipment, housing, and infrastructure.
ASSETS
Organizational - membership to local
and organization.
Psychological - sociability, self-
confidence, capacity to envision
change, and self- perceived exclusion
and happiness.
Social - social capital, networks, and
relationships.
Contextual Factors
FORMAL INSTITUTIONS
Formal Institutions includes
laws, ordinances, policies,
regulatory frameworks that
govern people's behavior
INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS
Informal Institutions refer to
unwritten or unofficial rules that
govern bureaucracies or
organizations, cultural practices
and traditions, value systems, and
mores and norms that operate
from the household up to the
societal level.
Degrees of

Empowerment
 Existence of Choice -
1 whether an opportunity to
make a choice exists.

Use of Choice - whether

2 a person or a group
actually uses the
opportunity to choose

Achievement of Choice -
3 whether the choice brings
about the desired result.
Empowerment

Components
Empowerement Components

Your facilitators

Empowerment as a process takes significant time while empowerment as a state is not

easily achieved. Usually, people who need the most empowerment have the least of
amount of power, wealth, and prestige. They are the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized
people. It is important to empower them so that they become self-reliant and their
development would not rely on others' charity or other external interventions.
To genuinely help people achieve empowerment, the World Health Organization
Community-Based Rehabilitation Empowerment Guidelines.
1 Self Advocacy and

Communication

Self-Advocacy and Communication. These refers to working with vulnerable

people to improve their ability to speak up for themselves, communicate and
deal with others, and self-advocate.
Self-Advocacy is about people having a voice of their own, knowing about
their rights and responsibilities., speaking up for their rights, and being able to
make choices and decisions.
2 Community Mobilization

Community Mobilization. This refers to working with vulnerable people to

bring them together and raise their awareness so that they can address
social inequalities in wealth, power, and prestige.
Inequalities can be addressed by demanding from the government a
particular poverty alleviation program, assisting in the delivery of resources
and services, and/or strengthening community participation by organizing
community-based development projects that will ensure sustainability and
self-reliance.
3 Political Participation

Political Participation. This refers to working with vulnerable people so that

they can participate in a broad range of activities where they can develop
and express their opinions on the society and how it is governed.
This can be done by helping them take part in and shape the decisions that
affect their lives in the realm of formal politics, such as lobbying for a certain
bill, voting, joining a political party, standing for elections, and rallying to
depose an abusive or corrupt regime.
4 Self - Help Groups

Self-Help Groups. These refers to woking with

vulnerable people so that they can form and
participate in groups toward resolving problems,
enhancing their individual strengths, and improving
their quality of life.
5 People s ' Organization

People's Organization. This refers to working with vulnerable people

so that they can establish a registered people's organization; gain
legal personality; and work together to ensure that social, economic,
and political empowerment can be collectively achieved
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