POWER, EMPOWERMENT

AND PARTNERSHIP
GLENPOLE A.
PASTOR
ADVOCACY
CHALLENGE
ACTIVITY

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 MECHANICS

1. The students will be group into 4 groups.

2. Each groups will be given topics and issues that is happening in
the community today.
3. The task of each group is to create a slogan or tagline on
promoting solutions on the problems given to them
4. In span of 5 minutes, each groups will also create a simple jingle
campaign with regard to their slogan.
5. The group who will deliver and give the best advocacy slogan
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 LESSON OBJECTIVES

 discuss the ethics of having partnerships

with local communities and external/ support
groups;
• make guidelines (personal and group) for
actual possible partnership;
• think of possible solutions and
recommendations in building partnerships
with local groups and support/external
groups for local/participatory governance.

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WHAT IS POWER?
 In sociology, power is the
definitive access and control of
resources. Here, resources
pertain to human, financial,
material, and environmental
resources. To facilitate our clear
understanding and conception
about power, we have to put
ourselves in some situations that
show absence of power.

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 WHAT IS
EMPOWERMENT?
“ Empowerment, is a concerted and organized
action by the people of the community who have
been disempowered. It is a process of
transitioning or acquiring power from the hands

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of the few to the majority people
Richard Branson

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Empowerment is a process of establishing countervailing
structures of power, like cooperatives, people's/community

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organizations, and other forms of organizations which may
provide opportunities for democratic participation,
decision-making, and partnership.

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TYPES OF EMPOWERMENT

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PEASANTS' EMPOWERMENT It means freedom from bondage, from the
land and different forms of economic

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disadvantages, (high prices of farm inputs,
low or unjust prices of farm outputs

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT It means liberation from different forms of

patriarchy and its Semblances.

URBAN POOR

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It means they have access and control of land
and housing by facilitating community
EMPOWERMENT housing programs

FISHER FOLKS' It means farmers have access and control of

the coastal areas.
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DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF EMPOWERMENT
AND EMPOWERMENT DEVELOPMENT

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1. The nature of working together is partnership.

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2. The principle is that the people are decisive.

3. The process is community-based.

4. The form of organization is through people's/community organizations.

5. The program management is shared by all in a communal effort and with a division of labor

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through committees.

6. The leadership is collective, participatory, and democratic. The people are active partners.

7. The power holders are the people and the communities.

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LEVELS OF
EMPOWERMENT
MANIPULATORY Participation appears to be a payment of the people and the
community so that outside development agencies can proceed
with the program implementation

TOKEN Participation of the people and community is involved in minor

decisions. outsiders, a few elite, and the influential make major
decisions

PARTNERSHIP Development agencies and the people/community agree and

decide on joint programs.
EMPOWERMENT This is a higher form of engagement of the community,
especially the disadvantaged group who can claim additional
power, access, and control of existing and new
resources
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Type of Manipulation Token Partnership Empowerment
Participation

For what? Participation as a Participation in Both agency and Disadvantaged

tool to facilitate minor decisions; people's group has
program elite makes major organization additional
implementation decisions agree on joint power, access,
program shared and control of
responsibility new resources
Decision Makers Outsiders or The rules are Joint decision Disadvantaged
development provided by groups or sectors
agencies development
agencies

Role of People Receiver Supervised Active  

Passive actor participant participants Decisive group
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People must undergo their own process to be able to be fully
MEET OUR
empowered. To referTEAM
it in our Community organizing and action (CO),
the community will be in their own at the later Part of the organizing.
The levels or types of people and community
TA K U M A H AYA S H I
participation that we can
MIRJAM NILSSON
tap and gear
P r e s i d toward
ent genuine change are partnership
C h i e f E x e c u t i v e and
O f f i c eempowerment.
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The process is very important in development and it should always be
guided by principles.
FLORA BERGGREN R A J E S H S A N TO S H I
Chief Operations Officer VP Marketing

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 ADDITIONAL PRINCIPLES OF
EMPOWERMENT
Recognize the potential of the
people and the strength of Develop leaders while in the process
their limited resources of planning.

Plan according to the

realities that exist in the Document all plans and
community undertakings.

Mobilize resources, not only from

the community, but from external Be flexible and consider unforeseen
sources as well. circumstances and events
To put these principles in a more realistic manifestation, communities or
groups are encouraged toward maximum participation and empowerment;
and undergo through different processes and activities such as the
following:

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 Group or
Contact Identify and Group structuring Social Group or
study preparation community community
target community learning
action
groups needs

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To b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d p a r t n e r s h i p , l e t u s r e f e r
to and expound the six principles developed
and proposed by the oxfam international, an
ngo that is active in many facets of
development work in international and even
in local community spaces.
PRINCIPLES OF PARTNERSHIP 

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SHARED COMPLEMENT AUTONOMY TRANSPARENC CLARITYON

VISION OF PURPOSE AND Y AND ROLES AND
AND VALUE INDEPENDENC MUTUAL COMMITMENT
ADDED E ACCOUNTABIL TO JOINT
ITY LEARNING

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SHARED VISION

• Despite the differences among

different stakeholders, clamor for
development is a common
aspiration than can lead the way
in coming up with a shared and
common vision.

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 COMPLIMENT OF
PURPOSE AND VALUE
ADDED

• Different stakeholders have

their own resources and
parameters in development
engagement.

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 AUTONOMY AND
INDEPENDENCE

• All stakeholders who are

engaged in development and
partnership still have their
own mandate, identity, and
prerogatives which they shall
maintain.
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 TRANSPARENCY AND
MUTUAL
ACCOUNTABILITY

• All stakeholders who are

engaged in development and
partnership still have their
own mandate, identity, and
prerogatives which they shall
maintain.
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 CLARITY ON ROLES
AND COMMITMENT
TO JOINT LEARNING
• A partnership involves a dynamic of
sharing, not only in terms of resources
but more so with the roles and
responsibilities of each and every
Individual in the different endeavors and
processes of development.

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