In the Bering Strait region of Alaska decreasing sea ice and increasing development are driving environmental and policy changes that significantly impact federally recognized tribes, which depend on marine resources for cultural, economic, and nutritional reasons. Kawerak, Inc., an Alaska Native non-profit tribal consortium, conducted participatory ice seal and walrus harvest and habitat mappi...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk melihat Pemberdayaan masyarakat di Desa Pejambon merupakan wujud implementasi Program Pilot Inkubasi Inovasi Desa- Pengembangan Ekonomi Lokal (PIID-PEL) melalui unit usaha bidang wisata BUMDesa Dinas Masyarakat (DPMD) Kabupaten Bojonegoro yang tercantum dalam keputusan Kementerian Desa, Pembangunan Daerah Tertinggal dan Transmigrasi (PDTT) Nomor 48 Tahun 2018 te...

Employee empowerment theory and research lacks a single, unifying model capable of integrating the multiple levels of activity and complex relationships that characterize the empowerment process. The model proposed in this paper describes the empowerment process from intervention design to subsequent employee behavior. The dynamics of the empowerment process are presented as reflecting the inte...

Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can have dramatic impact on poverty alleviation for rural women and for achieving socio economic development goals. Rural women need to treat ICTs as an empowerment tool and a means to a living. The use of mobile communication devices and internet are changing the way agricultural activities are managed by farmers nowadays. Rural women...

Purpose – To help shape a more cohesive research program in marketing and consumer research, this paper presents a systematic effort to integrate current research on consumer empowerment with highly influential theories of power. A conceptual overview of power consisting of three dominant theoretical models is developed onto which is mapped existing consumer empowerment research. Design/methodo...

Economic empowerment brings with it a wide range of consequences, both positive and negative. The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between economic empowerment and the sexual behaviour and practices of migrant workers within the context of HIV and AIDS in the Lesotho textile industry. Data for this paper were extracted from the findings of a larger study which had been co...

The aim was to examine a model of economic empowerment for local oil palm farmers through corporate social responsibility (CSR). research subjects were the parties involved in company, community, and stakeholders. data collection carried out interviews, focus group discussions, observations. results showed that CSR is still not optimal improving community's economy. issues faced as follows: 1) ...

Local political and community leaders and the owners of professional sports teams frequently claim that professional sports facilities and franchises are important engines of economic development in urban areas. These structures and teams allegedly contribute millions of dollars of net new spending annually and create hundreds of new jobs, and provide justification for hundreds of millions of d...

CONTEXT It is generally believed that women's lack of decision-making power may restrict their use of modern contraceptives. However, few studies have examined the different dimensions of women's empowerment and contraceptive use in African countries. METHODS Data came from the latest round of Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2006 and 2008 in Namibia, Zambia, Ghana and Uganda....