dc.contributor.advisor | Conradie, Ina | |
dc.contributor.author | Bodja, Sebilu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-02T11:02:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-02T11:02:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/9536 | |
dc.description | Masters in Public Administration - MPA | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Empowerment is a catchword that has recently entered current development debate. Development is largely perceived as a process of building capacities hence empowering people to be able to handle their affairs. As such it is a concept highly espoused by prominent development actors and mainly Non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The study attempted to examine the theoretical and empirical aspects of community empowerment from a critical perspective by surveying activities of three NGOs in Ethiopia. A recent framework developed by a working group of the World Bank for measuring and structuring analysis was used for analyzing findings. Conceptualization
and practices of empowerment seem to be at a nascent stage and tools for measuring it as well; that is what the findings of the study indicate. Despite the rhetoric surrounding the concept, the experience of surveyed NGOs also shows disparities between theory
and practice. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.subject | Community Empowerment | en_US |
dc.subject | Development | en_US |
dc.subject | Civil Society | en_US |
dc.subject | Non-Governmental Organizations | en_US |
dc.subject | 5. Conscientization | en_US |
dc.subject | Opportunity Structures | en_US |
dc.subject | Assets | en_US |
dc.subject | Agency | en_US |
dc.subject | Formal/informal Rules | en_US |
dc.subject | Collective Action | en_US |
dc.title | A Critical Perspective on Community Empowerment: Cases of Selected NGOs in Ethiopia | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |