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Empowerment in Practice : From Analysis to Implementation.

""This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the concept. It is both practical and well justified on the basis of the literature. The approach and survey instruments developed to measure...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alsop, Ruth
Otros Autores: Mette, Bertelsen, Holland, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Herndon : World Bank Publications, 2005.
Colección:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Acknowledgment; About the Authors; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF EMPOWERMENT; 2 Empowerment: An Analytic Framework; Framework Overview; Agency; Opportunity Structure; Interaction between Agency and Opportunity Structure: Explaining Degrees of Empowerment; Where Empowerment Takes Place: Domains and Levels; Domains; Levels; The Framework Summarized; Empowerment and Development Outcomes; Understanding Empowerment: Summary; 3 Methodological Issues in Measuring Empowerment; Challenges to Measurement.
  • Toward a Methodology for Measuring EmpowermentIdentifying Empowerment Indicators; Sequencing Methods and Data; Multidimensionality and Interactive Variables: Summarizing Methodological Issues; 4 Using the Empowerment Framework: Five Country Studies Summarized; Design and Structure of the Studies; Application of the Framework; Brazil: The Participatory Budget Initiative; Ethiopia: The Women's Development Initiatives Project; Honduras: The Community-Based Education Project; Indonesia: The Kecamatan Development Project; Nepal: The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Pr oject.
  • Conclusion: A Robust but Flexible Framework5 Applying the Empowerment Framework to Operations; Framing Program and Project Interventions; Empowerment-Means or End?; Investing in Agency and Opportunity Structure; Project-Level Monitoring Systems; Policy Formulation and Implementation; Policy-Level Monitoring Systems; Operationalizing the Empowerment Framework: A Summary with Questions; 6 Operationalizing a Difficult Concept: Summarizing Empowerment Analysis and Action; Structure and Agency: Prime Concepts; Using the Empowerment Framework in Operations and Analysis.
  • The Missing Link: Need for a Coherent Approach to EmpowermentPART TWO: MEASURING AND EVALUATING EMPOWERMENT: FIVE COUNTRY STUDIES; Preface to the Country Studies; 7 Evaluating Empowerment: Participatory Budgeting in Brazilian Municipalities; The Participatory Budgeting Initiative; Research Framework; Empowerment Impact of PB: The Matched-Pair Analysis; Selection of Pairs; The Matched Pairs; Citizen Engagement in Budgeting; Full PB: Binding Participation; Partial PB: Consultative Participation, Even When Contentious; State-Controlled Participation; Civil Society Capacity: Agency.
  • Agency, Opportunity Structure, and EmpowermentPoverty Outcomes: Estimating the Effects of Participatory Budgeting; Methodology and Data Set; Effects on Growth, Poverty, and Inequality; Conclusion; 8 Measuring Women's Empowerment in Ethiopia: The Women's Development Initiatives Project; Gender Inequality and the WDIP Project; Conceptual Framework of the Study; Research Design and Methodology; Instruments and Sampling; Indicators; Empowerment Outcomes and Determinants; State Domain; Market Domain; Social Domain; WDIP and Women's Empowerment; Impact in the Market Domain.