Defining empowerment: perspectives from international development organisations

Hennink, Monique; Kiiti, Ndunge; Pillinger, Mara; Jayakaran, Ravi

doi:10.1080/09614524.2012.640987

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“…However, this often turned not to be the case, since in day-to-day interactions with participating farmers, the issue of limited resources to invest in farming or recommended technologies came up time and again. Elsewhere it has been shown that individual empowerment is not achieved through focusing on agency alone, but that knowledge and the presence of an enabling environment for change together serve as a mechanism to bring about empowerment (Hennink et al 2012). Likewise, an enabling environment, say in terms of improved access to economic resources, may turn out to be a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for empowerment, as illustrated by our example from the goats project.…”

Section: Empowerment Interventions Agency and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Since groups thus established were usually new, training to strengthen leadership knowledge and skills among group leaders and members was offered and carried out by an "empowerment team" formed under the PANTIL programme. These training activities, which covered topics such as group dynamics, project planning, and elementary book keeping, aimed at organisational empowerment to enable groups to perform effectively (Hennink et al 2012). They were thus intended to concretise the defined empowerment "mechanism" of strengthening farmer organisation set out in the PANTIL programme design.…”

Section: Implementation Of Collaborative Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Mwaseba¹,

Kaarhus²,

Johnsen³

et al. 2015

Development in Practice

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This article presents experiences with collaborative and on-farm research based on the implementation of a four-year Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL) at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania. It outlines the basic elements in the implementation of a programme aimed to be demand-based, and discusses the challenges encountered in combining collaborative research with the empowerment of farmers. Finally, the article draws out some lessons with implications for the future organisation of collaborative and on-farm agricultural research.Cet article présente des expériences de recherches menées en collaboration et au sein même d'exploitations agricoles, basées sur la mise en oeuvre d'un programme de quatre ans, le Programme for Agricultural and Natural Resources Transformation for Improved Livelihoods (PANTIL -Programme pour la transformation des ressources agricoles et naturelles pour des moyens de subsistance améliorés) à la Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) de Morogoro, en Tanzanie. Il présente les éléments de base de la mise en oeuvre d'un programme visant à être fondé sur la demande et traite des défis rencontrés au moment de conjuguer les recherches collaboratives et l'autonomisation des agriculteurs. Enfin, cet article tire quelques enseignements ayant des implications pour l'organisation future de recherches agricoles menées en collaboration et au sein des exploitations.El presente artículo examina las experiencias surgidas de una investigación colaborativa realizada en parcelas agrícolas. La misma se basó en la implementación del Programa para la Transformación de la Agricultura y de los Recursos Naturales para el Mejoramiento de los Medios de Vida (PANTIL, por sus siglas en inglés), vinculado a la Universidad Sokoine de Agricultura de Morogoro, Tanzania, a lo largo de cuatro años. El artículo resume los elementos principales requeridos para impulsar un programa basado en la demanda, examinando los retos que debieron enfrentarse para combinar la investigación colaborativa y el empoderamiento de los productores. A manera de conclusión, el artículo esboza algunos de los aprendizajes obtenidos, los cuales tienen implicaciones para la organización de futuras investigaciones colaborativas que se realicen en parcelas agrícolas.

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Section: Empowerment Interventions Agency and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Implementation Of Collaborative Researchmentioning

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Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Mwaseba¹,

Kaarhus²,

Johnsen³

et al. 2015

Development in Practice

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“…There is no consensus on its specific meaning among researchers (Wagaman, 2011;Hennink, Kiiti, Pillinger & Jayakaran, 2012) and, according to Bacqué and Biewener (2013), it is not clear whether its internationalization is paying the price of the domestication of the notion and the neutralization of its radical scope.…”

Section: Presentationmentioning

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Empoderamiento juvenil y Pedagogía Social

Masó¹

2017

Ped Soc. Rev Int

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“…Empowerment has become a mainstream concept in international development but lacks clear definition, which can undermine development initiatives aimed at strengthening empowerment as a route to poverty reduction (Hennink et al, 2012). Empowerment has become a mainstream concept in international development (Kabeer 2001), yet the term empowerment still lacks clear definition in this field.…”

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Redesigning Independent Community Empowerment Model For Household Craftsmen

Utomo¹,

Hamdani²,

Riyanto³

et al. 2017

SMBR

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Redesigning the model of independent community empowerment program can be performed by (1) reviewing the factors to develop independent empowerment for household craftsmen in Surakarta, (2) identifying various government policy that support the development of household craftsmen's independency in Surakarta, and (3) formulate the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen in Surakarta. The subject of this study is household craftsmen in Surakarta, Central Java Province. This study is a research and development type, started with survey and need assessment for developing craftsmen's independency in entrepreneurship based on community's characters and values, media to implement the proposed model, action, and evaluation. This study will be conducted in Banjarsari sub-district in Surakarta municipality. Observation, interview, demonstration, and simulation will be employed in this study to collect the data. The data will be analyzed using mixed technique between descriptive and quantitative technique. Through FGD we will formulate the concept of redesigned model for developing independent community empowerment for household craftsmen. In this study we have collected the data on the potency of studied area; the data on the (2) the data on the number of prevalent entrepreneurs, (3) performing need assessment of household craftsmen in Surakarta, which will enable us to formulate the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen. The final aim of this study is applying the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen in order to achieve entrepreneurs' business independency.

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Defining empowerment: perspectives from international development organisations

Cited by 95 publications

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Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Empowering farmers? Collaborative research at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Empoderamiento juvenil y Pedagogía Social

Redesigning Independent Community Empowerment Model For Household Craftsmen

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