— The state of Andhra Pradesh, India, provides a case study of a liberalization program with an emphasis on women’s empowerment. Based on the state budget data and fieldwork data from two villages, this paper investigates the content of this policy regime to argue that women’s empowerment policies were ultimately constrained by the policy context of liberalization. The state lowered shares of e...

Empowerment evaluation is an innovative approach to evaluation. It has been adopted in higher education, government, inner-city public education, nonprofit corporations, and foundations throughout the United States and abroad. A wide range of program and policy sectors use empowerment evaluation, including substance abuse prevention, HIV prevention, crime prevention, welfare reform, battered wo...

Background: There is a relationship between diseases and the quality of life. Epilepsy is a disease that is unpredictable and uncontrollable and its actions are limited to scattered and brief education. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of family-centered empowerment program on the quality of life of mothers with epileptic children. Methods:</strong...

Empowerment evaluation involves a program’s stakeholders in designing and implementing an evaluation of their own program, thus contributing to the program’s improvement and self-determination (Fetterman, 1994, 1996). It appeared to be an appropriate approach for evaluating a mental health drop-in center, which had congruent goals of collaboration and self-sufficiency. However, encouraging ongo...

Empowerment is an important and desirable state for employees within business enterprises around the world. Yet, the pursuit of empowerment across national boundaries may vary due to innate diferences within cultures. This may be particularly true with respect to choice of technologies for achieving empowerment. Using an interpretive field study of Fellows within the Japanese MITI and U.S. Depa...

This paper presents findings of an evaluation undertaken by ActionAid Australia and local partners in Uganda, Palestine and Cambodia to understand how changes in economic participation affect women’s lives, and how women value these changes. The projects were supported through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). It is timely to revisit women’s empowerment as aid agencies around the w...

BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who receive dialysis confront the burdens of long-term illness and numerous physical problems. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study. The selected patients from Gorgan Dialysis Centre were randomly assigned into an empowerment group (n = 40) and a control group (n = 40). Instruments comprised scales of Empowerment and...

background: patients with end‑stage renal disease (esrd) who receive dialysis confront the burdens of long‑term illness and numerous physical problems. materials and methods: this was a quasi-experimental study. the selected patients from gorgan dialysis centre were randomly assigned into an empowerment group ( n = 40) and a control group ( n = 40). instruments comprised scales of empowerment a...

Empowerment evaluation entered the evaluation lexicon in 1993. Since that time, it has attracted many adherents, as well as vocal detractors. A prominent issue in the debates on empowerment evaluation concerns the extent to which empowerment evaluation can be readily distinguished from other approaches to evaluation that share with it an emphasis on participatory and collaborative processes, ca...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Black men experienced empowerment throughout the process of employment preparation. This study also sought to give voice to this population regarding their experience in this process. A definition of empowerment, posed by Barbara Solomon of “empowerment theory”, was used to understand the process of empowerment the study participants may have...