Briefly discuss the factors to consider in identifying modes of empowerment

      

Briefly discuss the factors to consider in identifying modes of empowerment

  

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Francis
1. Education : In a given community education is a factor to be considered to determine its educational strength how many schools are there an dare they accessible to all, what is the literacy level of people in community, how many people work as professionals in the community, how do people treat education.

2. Gender and age : By gender and age we have to look at the bracket of male and female or their ages. A mode of empowerment should facilitate for a target group analysis for instance put into consideration gender parity balance and should focus on a specified age group. In the community there are different groups of people men and women of different ages. A strong community is one which is gender sensitive and allows capacity building of women.

3. Culture: As an indicator should be sensitive / put into consideration the peoples ways of life, peoples behaviors, daily practices and attitudes towards some event. People are the main determinant of community project success. The program should incorporate the people’s ways of life.

4. Attitude :People’s perceptions and ideologies on a given fact, a mode of empowerment should capture people’s ideologies for instance what does the society think of the program is the community positive on the development issues.

5. Social integration: A mode of empowerment should facilitate the building of solidarity. An integrative empowerment means capacity building which is bridging allows for social cohesion between different parties in the community.

6. Resources : They are the potential or endowment a community has. Empowering people means getting the people into the position of utilizing the available resources how many resources is the community endowed with are they utilized or not.

7. Communication :Communication entails a transaction where a community needs to be fully furnished with information on certain critical issues for instance making people aware of their rights and freedom. The mode of communication should be one that fits the strategy to b utilized in community empowerment i.e. should fit the socio cultural environment in the community.
francis1897 answered the question on August 24, 2022 at 13:12


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