This chapter delineates the evolution of two contested, closely related concepts in development ethics – empowerment and participatory development. While empowerment originated in radical feminist ...

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an innovative framework that actively involves young people in designing and conducting research aimed at addressing issues that affect their daily lives.

Our research on governance, power relations, participation and citizen engagement, informs change processes in pursuit of social justice and social change. With power and politics central to our ...

The critical and empirical literature casts considerable doubt on managerial claims to empower workers through various kinds of programs and projects. The gap between the rhetoric of empowerment and ...

We have made great strides in reducing poverty and enabling human development. Ever since poverty trends began to be monitored, the number of people living in extreme poverty and poverty rates ...

A study by the Ministry of Coordinating Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) emphasizes the importance of empowering rural women to build an inclusive Indonesian society through cross-sector ...

Beginning in 2013, Kenya’s devolution of fiscal and administrative power to county governments has begun to address some of the historical marginalisation of regions and ethnic groups not politically ...

At the time of project appraisal (10/28/2002), Bangladesh’s poverty rate was approximately 40 percent (down from 60 percent in the early 1990s); however, of the 56 million people remaining in poverty, ...