Discuss the types of capacity building and empowerment indicator

a) Economic indicator:
A community is economically empowered when it is able to meet its day to day cost of living effectively without problems. Economic indicators looks at facts like employment / unemployment rate of men and women changes in the time used in selected activities e.g. great sharing by household neighbors e.g. salary wage difference between men and women The ability to make small or large purchases independently Percentage of the available credit, financial and technical support going to men and women from government to NGO resources.

b) Health and Sanitation Indicator:
1. A community is empowered in terms of health and sanitation if is able to meet its day to day cost in health and sanitation issues effectively. Health and sanitation indicators looks at facts like;
2. Are people able to access medication easily whenever they need?
3. Is the environment clean to avoid easy outbreak of diseases like cholera and diarrhea etc.
4. Through the community accessibility the affordable health facilities one can be able to state whether the community empowered
5. Health care is very essential need for humanity. People should be able to lead healthy lives and protect their families from some illness e.g. malaria, typhoid, dysentery, cholera etc.
6. Accessibility to health facilities is crucial factor to tell people in a community
7. Sanitation is the availability of cleaner / tidy environment / habitat
8. Human beings who live in untidy environment are said to be low in development and those who habitat tidy environment are said to be empowered.
9. Health care and sanitation is a measure to indicate how accessible the people are to drugs and their potentiality to escape some illness which accrues as a result of poor sanitation.

c) Political indicator:
1. It looks at issues like the percentage of people participating in political affairs of the country (community)
2. Percentage of ladies / women in various political parties / affairs
3. Percentage of the people involved in decision making i.e. how many men and women
4. Percentage of people (sex) registered as voters how many men and women are working)
5. Percentage of people (sex) in local and regional position (how many men and women are working)

d) Social indicator:
1. These indicators include relationship and social services provided within the community of focus,
2. Are all people accessible to educational services thus among the poor how many are learners, landless, employed or unemployed
3. In order to achieve the development there is need to strengthen the community. This may involve the training and networking among the people. It also looks at how decision making is undertaken in the community e.g. how the information is distributed
4. Are women involved in decision making e.g. determining the number of children or family size in marriages?
5. Mobility of people outside and within the residential locality e.g. how men and women compare within the community. Indicator questions to access social economic empowerment

e) Cultural indicator:
Culture is peoples way of life and has characteristics, it also comprises culture is gradually gaining presence in development discourages as policy make acknowledges that the social and cultural norms that people observe tends to influence the attitude and choices of people.
People are influenced by their cultural demands and the attitude on the way they go about their social economic activities. Culture is important in shaping people’s behavior on attitude in terms of leadership and training on management. Some scholars argue that culture first then development, cultural indicators include;
a) The major cultural practices that tend to influence people’s attitude towards work e.g. initiation
b) Look at gender participation of women in development issues
c) The resources spent and the time at cultural resources
d) Distribution of resources in terms of inheritance of land e.g. if the child is allowed to access the resources.
e) The squatter problem and the landlessness e.g. how many people are legimately owing land.
The fundamental role of culture and empowerment is the building of peace, democracy, and development ideas that promote self-reliance, security and provision of basic needs therefore culture is an indispensable recipe for development.

f) Technological Empowerment Indicator:
1. Technology involves the use of machinery and knowledge to facilitate the production of goods and services for sustenance. In Africa the low level of technology is associated with the economic backwardness of the continent and the spread of poverty. The technology adopted by the community acts as the development and empowerment indicator because it influences people’s activities. This can be seen in;
2. Whether a community uses traditional technology in the production. In community traditional techniques they use a lot of time and power reaps very little.
3. Whether people use technology to control population growth
4. Whether community access markets by use of technology e.g. internet, radio ,TV
5. Raw materials for instance do farmers produce their products or sell them raw when farmers sell raw materials their earnings are extremely low so the community should be advised tom produce their commodity and get more from it.
6. The quality of agricultural commodity e.g. seeds and animals breed whether or not farmers are certified seeds or hybrid e.g. artificial insemination of animals.

g) Psycho-spiritual need of the community:
These include love affection and procreation, dignity and respect, Productive self-actualization through use of improved technologies. The attainance of psycho spiritual needs is made possible.

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francis1897 answered the question on August 24, 2022 at 13:26