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	Empowerment
		Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.
		Central to this process are actions which both build individual and collective assets, and improve the efficiency and fairness of the organizational and institutional context which govern the use of these assets.
		Using the concepts of asset-based agency and institution-based opportunity structure, this empowerment framework can be applied across dimensions of both action and analysis.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTEMPOWERMENT/0,,contentMDK:20245753~pagePK:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:486411,00.html (346 words)

	Empowerment
		Empowerment is the process of sharing information, training and allowing employees to plan, organize, and control their jobs in order to obtain positive results (Denton, 1994).
		Lastly, inconsistent empowerment is resulted when untrained managers failed to specifically apply a uniform empowerment practice for their work groups, or to change the degree of empowerment according to their moods or to their own understanding.
		While an effective empowerment practice enables employees to achieve optimum results, it is the open book practice that help employees to have a clearer financial performance picture of their organization.
	www.infomatek.com /Empowerment.htm (3313 words)

	Empowerment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Empowering these people requires that the opportunities denied be obtained, directly by the sufferer (which is rare indeed) or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to those opportunities.
		Empowering marginalized people is merely working toward helping the marginalized people gain the kind of control of their lives that the rest of us enjoy.
		Empowerment in the workplace is regarded by critics as more a pseudo-empowerment exercise, the idea of which is to change the attitudes of workers, so as to make them work harder rather than giving them any real power, and Wilkinson (1998) refers to this as "attitudinal shaping".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empowerment (1552 words)

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		Although Bush and Folger's concept of empowerment and transformative mediation is useful, intractable conflicts call for a broader and deeper definition of empowerment.
		The primer on education for empowerment is Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
		Participants empower themselves by taking responsibility for their own learning (actively engaging as teachers as well as students), by increasing their understanding of the communities in which they live, and by understanding how they as individuals are affected by current and potential policies and structures.
	www.beyondintractability.org /m/empowerment.jsp (3831 words)

	Herrick - Empowerment Practice and Social Change: The Place for New Social Movement Theory
		However, the literature on empowerment theory and practice is relatively mute on this point and does not draw from the literature and practice of planned social change to provide such a focus.
		From a perspective of empowerment focusing primarily on individual enlightenment and emancipation, one would say that every person ought to develop their own abilities and needs, and be "empowered" to do so.
		Fundamental to empowerment practice focused on social change is the creation of social relations of symmetry within and through which power relations are established and used for the purposes of creating alternatives-"what ought to be"--and changing "what is." Social relations of symmetry can come from relational individualism--the social matrix out of which human individuality emerges.
	www.interweb-tech.com /nsmnet/docs/herrick.htm (2409 words)

	Employee Empowerment
		Empowerment is a process of becoming, not a task or end result in and of itself, Just as with continuous improvement, no organization is ever done with its empowerment implementation; no person is ever "completely empowered".
		Clearly, empowerment is not quick nor easy, except in the case of a newly formed organization where the leaders understand it and have committed themselves and the organization to it.
		Because empowered employees often are formed into self-managing teams they often need someone to facilitate their discussions until this skill is developed among the members of the group—this initially becomes the role of the manager.
	members.tripod.com /j_fox/thesis.html (16688 words)

	UNFPA: POPULATION ISSUES: Promoting Gender Equality
		A critical aspect of promoting gender equality is the empowerment of women, with a focus on identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving women more autonomy to manage their own lives.
		Political empowerment: Social and legal institutions still do not guarantee women equality in basic legal and human rights, in access to or control of land or other resources, in employment and earning, and social and political participation.
		Empowerment throughout the life cycle: Reproductive health is a lifetime concern for both women and men, from infancy to old age.
	www.unfpa.org /gender/empowerment.htm (824 words)

	Definition of Empowerment and Development Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today's business environment depends on the "empowered employee." The process of employee empowerment increases the demands on an individual's skills and knowledge, both on an interpersonal and technical level.
		Empowerment is the process whereby employees are supported and encouraged to fully utilize their skills, abilities and creativity to accept ownership and accountability for their job/project.
		Empowerment includes supervisors and employees working together to establish clear goals and expectations within agreed-upon boundaries.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/smith5/ELTech/Course/u1-4over.htm (159 words)

	Empowerment
		Traditional culture is designed to empower only those who have the traditional qualifications and connections to participate in a hierarchy of power and prestige.
		This will not mean that individuals are given lock step formulae for success, but rather that they are empowered to make their own choices and to create their own successful lives based on the development of their best personal abilities and to fulfill their self-evident responsibilities to the interdependent quality of democracy.
		Empowerment government can eliminate hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats, millions of paper forms and billions of dollars in paternalistic overhead.
	www.mouthmag.com /justin/empower.html (3362 words)

	Empowerment Evaluation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Empowerment evaluation has an unambiguous value orientation -- it is designed to help people help themselves and improve their programs using a form of self-evaluation and reflection.
		Empowerment evaluation is being used to respond to the decentralization of education activities.
		Empowerment evaluation is consistent with the spirit of the standards developed by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (Fetterman 1995; Joint Committee, 1994), as well as the Guiding Principles for Evaluators (1995).
	www.stanford.edu /~davidf/empowermentevaluation.html (8601 words)

	Empowerment: What Is It?
		To begin to demystify the concept of empowerment, we need to understand the concept broadly in order to be clear about how and why we narrow our focus of empowerment for specific programs and projects (specific dimension or level, etc.) and to allow discussion of empowerment across disciplinary and practice lines.
		Empowerment is a construct shared by many disciplines and arenas: community development, psychology, education, economics, and studies of social movements and organizations, among others.
		Empowerment is a process that is similar to a path or journey, one that develops as we work through it.
	www.joe.org /joe/1999october/comm1.html (1863 words)

	Empowerment Institute Certification Program is training for empowerment practitioners personal growth woman empowerment ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Empowerment Institute employs a variety of learning strategies to appeal to a broad-base of styles and preferences.
		The term empowerment was new in the vernacular of transformation as was their approach.
		The empowerment work of David Gershon and Gail Straub, however was profoundly different and I was deeply impressed by the simple elegance of the very personal methodology they have honed over two decades of work, including their training design and delivery.
	www.empowermenttraining.com /files/Cert_Program.html (3122 words)

	Empowerment
		This problem is avoided by the use of transformative mediation, which is an approach to mediation which has as its goals the empowerment (and recognition) of all of the parties to the mediation.
		Empowerment in this sense does not mean leveling the playing field as it does in the earlier sense, but rather increasing the ability of all parties to successfully deal with their situation on their own.
		Empowerment can also refer to a larger, group-level, or societal level process, such as that which occurs with peacebuilding or the re-establishment of a civil society and traditional conflict management institutions.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/peace/treatment/empower.htm (1235 words)

	Key Words E of Community Development, Empowerment, Participation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The empowerment of a community (or organization) is an increase in its strength, improvement in its capacity (ability) to accomplish its goals.
		See "Measuring Empowerment" for a list of the sixteen elements of power or capacity, and a participatory method of measuring its increase.
		The empowerment methodology, in contrast to the charity approach, aims at strengthening the community rather than encouraging it to remain dependant upon outside resources.
	www.scn.org /ip/cds/cmp/key/key-e.htm (949 words)

	EMPOWERMENT (DEFINITION AND DISCUSSION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This first step in choosing empowerment implies that, like it or not, leadership to achieve our vision is solely up to us.
		In order for organizations to be transformed and empowerment to be actualized, we will need to assure that when control has been offered that we confront our own wishes to be dependent and examine the choices we really have.
		The danger in articulating empowerment as a mission is that the concept will not be supported with the kind and depth of education that will move it from a fad to a sustained behavior.
	www.kon.org /leadership/empowered.html (1243 words)

	Empowerment
		The fourth empowerment is sometimes called the precious word empowerment, but usually is called "the fourth." By receiving this empowerment, we purify the subtle obscurations to enlightenment.
		All three together empower us to do a specific meditation practice in which (among other things) you visualize yourself as the deity, recite the mantra, and allow any thought of a distinction between yourself and the deity to slip away.
		During the Mind Consecration, you visualize the seed-syllable of the deity in your heart and by concentrating on this seed-syllable which is the essence of the deity, you try to realize the non-duality of your own mind and that of the deity/lama.
	www.khandro.net /TibBud_empowerment.htm (3916 words)

	Juha Siitonen. Voimaantumisteorian perusteiden hahmottelua. ISBN 951-42-5340-X
		It is, however, possible to strengthen empowerment through subtle and supportive measures that open up possibilities through, for example, openness, freedom of action, encouragement and through strengthening a sense of security, trust and equality.
		The theory of empowerment can be used as the underlying theory in projects and studies aiming to maintain human resources and prevent exhaustion.
		The theory of empowerment is valuable for both preservice and inservice teacher education in working toward the well-being of students and teachers as well as the realization of human rights.
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn951425340X (599 words)

	AGI-Goldratt Institute - [Article - Empowerment]
		If we assume, (as we are) that empowerment is a desirable thing to have, a good starting point is the conflict that empowerment forces on every manager.
		Empowerment is in danger of becoming no more than lip service.
		At last, empowerment is recognized as one of the necessary conditions for an effective organization.
	www.goldratt.com /empower.htm (4542 words)

	Green Empowerment - Home
		Green Empowerment is working with local partners to improve the lives of Burmese refugees who are fleeing the oppressive military government of Burma, also known as Myanmar.
		Green Empowerment is working with local partner, the Border Green Energy Team, to provide critically needed electricity to refugees seeking humanitarian assistance along the rural Thai /
		Green Empowerment is pleased to announce it is launching a new initiative
	www.greenempowerment.org (162 words)

	WomenWatch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
		The Secretary-General's study serves to highlight the persistence, and unacceptability, of all forms of violence against women, in all parts of the world.
		Convening a special meeting of the General Assembly on gender equality and the empowerment of women, the 192-member body’s president today emphasized that these goals are the responsibility of all people, and achieving them will benefit society as a whole...
		Gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment in the field were crucial to erasing the persistent poverty, discrimination and disease afflicting women worldwide, Rachel N. Mayanja, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, told the Commission on the Status of Women, as it continued its fifty-first session...
	www.un.org /womenwatch (971 words)

	Black economic empowerment - SouthAfrica.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		South Africa's policy of fl economic empowerment (BEE) is not simply a moral initiative to redress the wrongs of the past.
		Black economic empowerment is not affirmative action, although employment equity forms part of it.
		International investors are increasingly embracing fl economic empowerment - in sharp contrast to a few years ago, when the first round of empowerment deals in the country battled to find foreign support.
	www.southafrica.info /doing_business/trends/empowerment/bee.htm (967 words)

	Welcome to the Community Renewal Initiative - Economic Development - CPD - HUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Empowerment Zone tax incentives are worth approximately $5.3 billion to small and large businesses in Empowerment Zones.
		Together with 22 Empowerment Zones that HUD designated in separate competitions in 1994 and 1999, these 70 communities are able to share an $11 billion tax-incentive package that encourages entrepreneurs to invest in these communities, open new businesses and expand existing ones, and hire tens of thousands of local residents.
		The administrative leaders of each Renewal Community and Empowerment Zone work closely also with government, business, and local community representatives to implement strategic plans and courses of action to improve social and economic conditions throughout the designated areas.
	www.hud.gov /offices/cpd/economicdevelopment/programs/rc (585 words)

	Amazon.com: Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It: Books: Gail Straub,David Gershon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Empowerment builds on two decades of work of its authors working with thousands of people to help them create their heart's desire.
		Over 50,000 copies of Empowerment have been sold since it was published in 1989.
		In 1986 they applied the principles of empowerment and organized, in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund the First Earth Run inwhich a lighted torch was passed around the world.
	www.amazon.com /Empowerment-Creating-Your-Life-Want/dp/0967237408 (1048 words)

	Empowerment
		A source for empowering people and communities via the internet.
		A society is democratic only to the extent that its people are equal.
		We hope the following links will help in your quest for empowerment and democracy.
	www.angelfire.com /mi3/empowerment (174 words)

	Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
		For information about current free speech issues concerning the Internet, visit the Center for Democracy and Technology.
		The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition came together to oppose Congress' first attempt to regulate content on the Internet, the Communications Decency Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional on June 26, 1997.
		elcome to the home of the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), a broad group of Internet users, library groups, publishers, online service providers, and civil liberties groups fighting for the future of the First Amendment and the future of free expression in the Information age.
	www.ciec.org (356 words)

	Empowerment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In its short history the MIC has established itself as one of the most successful proponents of fl empowerment
		Most women in SA don't have access to finance or business training.
		This led to the establishment of the WDB.
	www.bp.com /subsection.do?categoryId=16003449&contentId=7020451 (70 words)

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