Why Empower a Community?

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Key points

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Why Empower a Community?

  • The Community is the Most Effective Medium
  • Power, Capacity, Ability
  • Choosing Which Communities
  • Wealth and Poverty, A Social Approach
  • Participation (Necessary but not Necessarily Sufficient)


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Reading

Empowerment Principles Module Hub (Introduction)
  • The Community is the Most Effective Medium
Why Empower a Community? Discussion Handout
  • Power, Capacity, Ability
Ability Key Words Entry
Strengthen Key Words Entry
Capacity Development Discussion Handout
  • Choosing Which Communities
Read about Choosing in Managing an Empowerment Programme
Read Choosing a Community in Empowerment Principles
Read Why Empower a Community in Empowerment Principles
  • Wealth and Poverty, A Social Approach
Poverty Key Words Entry
Wealth Key Words Entry
Wealth Discussion Handout
Value Key Words Entry
  • Participation (Necessary but not Necessarily Sufficient)
Participation Key Words Entry
Community Participation Key Words Entry
Consult Key Words Entry
Participation Discussion Handout by Ben Flemming





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Outcomes

  • The student will be able to explain the arguments for helping communities to become empowered
  • The student will be able to see that the community is the most effective institution to change for fighting the war on poverty
  • The student will be able to distinguish between communities that should or should not be empowered. Similarly: could and could not
  • The student will be able to see that power, capacity and ability all describe strength of a community
  • The student will have tools for choosing which communities to empower
  • The student will be able to distinguish between wealth and money
  • The student will recognize poverty as a social problem which needs a social solution
  • The student will see that participation means participating in decision making, not only contributing or being consulted
  • The student will recognize that community participation is essential for success and sustaining a community project