Effectiveness of Community Empowerment Programs Through Joint Venture Groups (KUBE) In Bulungan Regency, North Kalimantan

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Measurement of Community Empowerment in Three Community Programs in Rapla (Estonia)

Community empowerment approaches have been proven to be powerful tools for solving local health problems. However, the methods for measuring empowerment in the community remain unclear and open to dispute. This study aims to describe how a context-specific community empowerment measurement tool was developed and changes made to three health promotion programs in Rapla, Estonia. An empowerment e...

Sea Duck Joint Venture

Project Description: The Great Salt Lake (GSL) is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world and is an important region for breeding and migratory waterbirds and wintering common goldeneye (Aldrich and Paul 2002, J. Vest unpublished data). Because the GSL is a closed basin, contaminants (e.g., mercury, selenium, cadmium, and others) associated with industrial and urban development in the Sal...

Sea Duck Joint Venture

Principal Investigators: Jean-Michel DeVink, University of Saskatchewan, 115 Perimeter Rd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0X4, [email protected] Dr. Stuart Slattery, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Box 1160, Stonewall, Manitoba, R0C 2Z0, [email protected] Dr. Bob Clark, Canadian Wildlife Service, 115 Perimeter Rd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0X4,...

Conceptualizing Organizational Domains of Community Empowerment through Empowerment Evaluation in Estonian Communities

The importance of community empowerment has been strongly emphasized in health promotion publications in Western societies. Only a few studies exist to highlight the empowerment processes in countries in transition in Eastern Europe. A multi-stage study was designed to develop a context-specific survey instrument appropriate for evaluating the changes in the community empowerment process within...