Local Economic Growth and Community Sustainability

Engage, participate, empower: Modelling power transfer in disadvantaged rural communities

“…In a broad sense, empowerment relates to strengthening principles of inclusiveness, democracy and sustainable development (Singh & Titi, 1995) and to 'a process of transition from a state of powerlessness to a state of relative control' (Sadan, 1997, p.144). Empowerment relates to receiving power to act through the mechanisms of participation of individuals, community networks, organisations, and institutions (Ahmad, Yusof, Abdullah, 2014). In social science and community development work, empowerment relates to 'a united and systematic effort by a group to gain control over and improve their aggregated lives by defining problems, assets, solutions, and the processes by which change can occur' (Reininger, Martin, Ross, Sinicrope, Dinh-Zarr, 2006, p.213).…”

“…The concept can also be perceived as the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes (Herbert-Cheshire & Higgins, 2004). Positive community enabling, which is the act of making a subject able to do something by creating the necessary condition, plays an important role here (Ahmad et al, 2014). This process of community enabling also links to the processes of decentralisation (Jupp, 2008) by giving greater responsibility to local actors (McEwan, 2003) with a facilitating and enabling role of public authorities (Pieterse, 2001).…”

Communication as a Way in the Development of Fishing Village in Belawan Medan Indonesia

“…Community development is an integral part of development. The three phases that affect a country's economic growth are capacity building, community development and social capital factors (Ahmad, Yusof, & Abdullah, 2013). Coastal communities of settlements have thought that the economic level of local communities will be more developed than before (61.4%) if they involve themselves in building a village.…”

Sustainability of Slum-Based Settlement Management Community Socio-Economic Empowerment (Study on Slum Settlements in Panakkukang District, Makassar City)

“…Community fiscal empowerment, through interinstitutional collaboration, is capable of being conducted through strengthening the tenure of its production factors and its distribution and marketing, consolidation the capacity of the society to obtain decent and adequate wages as well as information, knowledge and skills, supported by the policies of the Makassar city government. Furthermore, developing economics must, therefore be concerned with the formulation of appropriate public policies, designed to affect major economic, institutional and social transformations of the entire society, in the shortest possible time (Ahmad and Abdullah, 2013).…”