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Short Summary
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| Title |
Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring
Analysis and Framing Indicators |
| Author |
Alsop, R. and Heinsohn, N. |
| Publication
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February 2005 |
| Publisher |
World Bank |
| Volume |
Policy Research Working Paper |
| Series |
3510 |
| Donor |
World Bank |
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Short Summary |
Empowerment is a person's capacity to make effective
choices and to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
The extent or degree to which a person is empowered is influenced
by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity
structure (the institutional context in which choice is made). This
is the definition of empowerment used in this paper. To measure these
components, to determine degrees of empowerment, various indicators
are suggested. For agency, asset endowments - psychological, informational,
organizational, material, social, financial or human. For opportunity
structure, the presence and operation of formal and informal institutions,
including the laws, regulatory frameworks, and norms governing behaviour.
To illustrate how this analytical framework can be used, the paper
describes how the framework guided analysis in development interventions
in Ethiopia, Nepal, Honduras and Mexico. The paper also presents a
draft module for measuring empowerment at the country level. The module
can be used alone or be integrated into country-level poverty or governance
monitoring systems that seek to add an empowerment dimension to their
analysis. |
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