EMPOWERMENT

AND

PARTICIPATION Wyrlo B. Dela Cruz, LPT

BUJMRIGD
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NATURE AND
PRINCIPLES OF
EMPOWERMENT
Today's Agenda
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WHAT IS THE NATURE OF

EMPOWERMENT? WHAT
PRINCIPLES SHOULD BE TAKEN
TO UNDERSTAND
EMPOWERMENT?

NATURE OF
EMPOWERMENT
PSYCHOLOGY
Empowerment as a motivation “refers to a process whereby
an individual’s belief in his or her self-efficacy is enhanced.
To empower means either to strengthen this belief or to
weaken one’s belief in personal powerlessness” (Conger and
Kanungo 1988:474).
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BANDURA
Psychologist Albert Bandura has defined self-efficacy as
people's beliefs in their capabilities to exercise control
over their own functioning and over events that affect
their lives. One's sense of self-efficacy can provide the
foundation for motivation, well-being, and personal
accomplishment.

NATURE OF
EMPOWERMENT
SOCIOLOGY
empowerment may be regarded as one of the prerequisites
for modern democracy, which also include constitutional
foundation, democracy as a process, participation,
deliberation, and recognition and involvement of others
(Henning and Renblad, 2009)
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HERBERT SPENCER
Empowerment is a process to the complex society
as organs. Functionalism perspective adheres the
the progress of society if all system is empowered
seen across different institutions and sectors of
community.

NATURE OF
EMPOWERMENT
POLITICAL
To empower means “to enable or permit”—to give power to
an individual or group of people. Empowerment allows the
leader to share power with his or her constituents, which in
turn allows them to share responsibility for decision making
and implementation. Empowerment encourages the personal
development of volunteers as well as the development of
other relational aspects such as trust, credibility and
accountability (Rickets, 2019)
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NIETSCHE
Empowerment is a process of will to power as a
form of self actualization of individuals that affirm
life given the challenges a man that encounters.
Thus personal responsibility to attain valuation of
life as means towards overcoming of oneself seen
the empowerment.
 EMPOWERMENT HAS TO BE
SEEN IN VARIOUS LEVELS
INDIVIDUAL
Individual empowerment is thus
described by the interaction on four
different planes: self-esteem (the
search for the redefinition of identity
and the feeling of self-accomplishment
and self-confidence); critical awareness
(formation of a collective, social and
political consciousness requiring the
capacity for reflection and social
analysis)
COMMUNITY
community (corresponding to the
appropriation of the community by the
collective). It is his understanding that
empowerment takes place via a
succession of stages through which the
individuals or groups appropriate the
power and the ability to perform in an
autonomous, free, informed, and clear
way, thus transforming choices into
decisions.
ORGANIZATION
Organizational empowerment,
considered to be the intermediary, the
context, or the means through which
individuals or communities enter the
empowerment process, also operates
on four planes: recognition (legitimacy
of the organization, which depends
upon the way its members perceive it
and how its surrounding environment
view and relates to it); critical
awareness (the capacity to analyze the
organization); competences (displayed
by the community members, whether in
decision-making positions or not); and
participation (of the organization
within the community or in terms of
other organizations
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CONCLSUION Participation is the redistribution of power. The capacity to act

and to exercise power, that is to say, the development and the
struggle against inequality, are simultaneously a condition and a
product of empowerment (Albuquerque et al., 2016). This is a
strategy through which individuals, not presently participating, can
promote significant social reform that will allow them to share
benefits that involve society to a greater extent (Arnstein, 2002).

Empowerment thus implies the development of participatory

processes with respect to the construction of autonomy for the
individuals and populations with which one works, and in so doing
serves to produce those conditions that are conducive for decision-
making and that create and develop the structures which enable
opportunities to arise( Cavalieri and Almeida, 2018)
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