Empowerment - an Introduction

An Introduction to Empowerment Evaluation: Teaching Materials

Empowerment evaluation is an evaluation approach which entered the evaluation arena in 1993 (Miller & Campbell, 2006). It was initially introduced at the American Evaluation Association conference by David Fetterman. Since its inception, it has been utilized in a variety of contexts including individualistic, organizational, institutional and community-based settings (Fetterman, 1998). Empowerm...

ICT and Women’s Empowerment in Egypt: An Empirical Study

Studying the Digital Gender Divide in African countries, including Egypt, is considered vital for social and economic development. It is an established fact that one of the UN Millennium Development Goals is gender equality and the empowerment of women. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be the vehicle to achieve this goal. This study applies econometric techniques to shed some ...

رابطه سلامت معنوی و توانمندی روانشناختی در دانشجویان پرستاری

Introduction: Nurses, because of the nature of their profession require certain abilities. The important ability is psychological empowerment that can be a valuable tool in providing spiritual health. Methods: This descriptive-correlative study was done to determine the relationship between spiritual health and psychological empowerment in nursing students. The data were collected using a de...

Fertility Awareness-Based Methods of Avoiding and Achieving Pregnancy: An Effective Means of Family Planning and Promoting Women's Empowerment Introduction

Empowerment theory, research, and application.

This introduction to the special issue briefly reviews the meaning and significance of the empowerment concept and problems associated with the proliferation of interest in empowerment. We identify some of the topics not included in this issue and relate those to the many broad and diverse areas of psychological empowerment theory and community-based research and intervention that are covered. ...

Empowerment assessment tools in people with disabilities in developing countries. A systematic literature review.

INTRODUCTION Many initiatives are undertaken to improve the empowerment of people with disabilities in developing countries. However, an overview of adequate measurement tools to evaluate such activities is not available to date. This systematic literature review aims to describe and assess the available tools to measure empowerment in people with disability, suitable for use in developing coun...