Community Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-155
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Organizational Empowerment ◽  
Sociological Work

Most have treated empowerment at the community level in vague terms. Scholars in community development and health promotion have identified domains of community empowerment, but these were designed for—and are infrequently used beyond—programmatic contexts. Others have drawn in concepts from social movement studies and sociological work on neighborhood social processes to understand community empowerment, yet these frameworks have not been linked to community power structure or to psychological or organizational empowerment processes. Chapter 6 therefore constructs a new conceptual framework for community empowerment. The intent is to bring empowerment theory closer to being able to realize its fundamental goals of acting as an integrated orientation for action and an infrastructure for systematic research.

A bottom-up art event gave birth to a process of community empowerment in an Italian village

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Sardu ◽  
Alessandra Mereu ◽  
Alessandra Sotgiu ◽  
Paolo Contu
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Intermediate Outcomes ◽  
Cultural Experiences

Although community participation is a component of community empowerment, it often remains a theoretical exhortation. Reporting experiences which enable people to take control of their lives, can be useful to suggest practical elements for promoting empowerment. This article describes the experience of a Sardinian village (Ulassai), that developed into a community empowerment. The Laverack’s operational domains were used to measure the community empowerment process. The process started in 1979 ‘almost by chance’ with an art performance that was the entry point for community participation. This experience has been the foundation for the community empowerment. Citizens acquired the ‘ability of thinking and planning as a community and not mere individuals’. In the following 30 years citizens gave birth to several outcomes rooted in that event. The intermediate outcomes highlight the ‘ability of action by a group to mobilize existing resources, and act collectively against opposing forces’. The long-term outcomes demonstrate the ‘ability to integrate the cultural experiences that strengthened the community’s identification into a sustainable community asset’, and the ‘ability to cope with global environmental challenges and to collaborate on an equal basis with other stakeholders. The pathways to community empowerment, showed by the community of Ulassai, overlap with the ‘operational domains’. The Ulassai experience shows that the empowerment process can start from an event apparently unrelated to health promotion. This community experience illustrates the positive role arts can play in community development. Hence, the call for health promoters to look carefully into those situations that occur naturally in communities.

Community Power and Empowerment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Systemic Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Comprehensive Treatment ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Theory Research

Community Power and Empowerment is the most comprehensive treatment of empowerment theory to date. The book begins by situating empowerment with regard to community power, thereby addressing a long-standing ambiguity within empowerment theory, research, and practice. Next, chapters examine psychological, organizational, and community aspects of empowerment processes. A new orienting framework for studying and comparing community empowerment processes is developed. The outcomes and impacts of empowerment processes are specified across multiple pathways. Finally, the book provides recommendations for integrating research and practice to achieve the goals of empowerment: building and exercising social power for systemic change and improving community well-being.

Organizational Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-122
Author(s):  
Brian D. Christens
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Know How ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
Organizational Empowerment ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Shed Light

Voluntary associations and non-profit organizations are the most common catalysts for empowerment processes and the exercise of community power. Yet, there are tremendous variations in scale, mission, composition, and structure among these organizations. How can stakeholders—from staff and volunteers to policymakers and funders—know how best to invest their efforts and resources? Organizational empowerment theory aspires to function as a framework that can shed light on these topics, yet it has inadequately considered how contemporary trends in political economy affect organizations and organizational networks. This chapter elaborates the characteristics of organizations and their networks of relations with other organizations that are conducive to building community power.

Reinterpreting community development for health promotion in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Glenn Laverack
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Community Based

The role of community development for health promotion has been problematic, not least because of a lack of trust between government and civil society and the use of top-down pro-grams that have contributed to low community involvement. This paper discusses the much needed reinterpretation of community development for health promotion in the 21st Century. It is grounded in an understanding of its origins, in the role of community-based organisations and in its relationship with capacity building and community empowerment. Health promotion is political and a reinterpretation of community development has to reflect the extent to which communities can be politicized to take more control-over the determinants of their lives and health. In the 21st Century we can substitute the use of the term ‘community development' with the use of ‘community empowerment' in both discourse and practice in health promotion.

Strategi Pembinaan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dalam Pemanfaatan Hutan Kemasyarakatan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-319
Author(s):  
Silya Putri Pratiwi ◽  
◽  
Dian Kagungan ◽  
Eko Budi Sulistio ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Farmer Groups ◽  
Forestry Resources ◽  
Group Association

Forest management in terms of its production function is directed towards management that is oriented towards all potential forestry resources and is based on community empowerment. The Wana Tekat Mandiri Farmer Group Association manages community forests, namely state forests whose main use is aimed at empowering the community. The rampant illegal logging is carried out by irresponsible parties outside of the farmer group association. So that community groups that carry out illegal logging do not support the Regional Government in providing guidance to the Association of Farmer groups in the Sendang Agung District area. The type of research used in this research is descriptive type with a qualitative approach, data collection techniques, observation, interviews, documentation. The results of this study indicate that the strategy of community development and empowerment in community forest utilization has been running well and the implementation of the strategy has been deemed successful in implementation. The coaching strategy has a main objective in the framework of developing a coaching plan in carrying out activities or programs of Gapoktan Wana Tekad Mandiri, namely by how to develop skills, develop knowledge and develop attitudes. The existence of this coaching strategy is expected to have a good empowering impact on the community.

PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DESA DANASARI KECAMATAN PEMALANG KABUPATEN PEMALANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Purnama Rozak ◽  
Hafiedh Hasan ◽  
Sugarno Sugarno ◽  
Srifariyati Srifariyati ◽  
Afsya Septa Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Scale Parameter ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Village

<p>The success of the development of a nation is determined by the Human Development Index (HDI). International scale parameter indicates the level of development of human resources emphasizes on three areas: education, health, and income per capita. The various dimensions of community development was a collective responsibility to make it happen. One way to do is through the proselytizing activities of community empowerment. This is as done in the village of Pemalang district, Danasari that has HDI levels is low compared than other villages. Community development in this village was done by taking three primary focus , they are the field of economics, health, and education and religion.</p><p align="center"><strong>***</strong></p>Keberhasilan pembangunan suatu bangsa ditentukan oleh Human Develop-ment Indeks (HDI). Parameter berskala internsional ini menunjukkan tingkat pengembangan sumber daya manusia yang menitiberatkan pada tiga bidang yaitu pendidikan, kesehatan, dan pendapatan perkapita. Pengembangan masyarakat yang berbagai dimensi tadi merupakan tanggung jawab bersama untuk mewujudkannya. Salah satu cara yang dapat dilakukan adalah melalui kegiatan dakwah pemberdayaan masyarakat. Hal ini sebagaimana dilakukan di Desa Danasari Kabupaten Pemalang yang memiliki tingkat HDI yang rendah dibandingkan desa lainnya. Pemberdayaan masyarakat di desa ini dilakukan dengan mengambil tiga fokus utama yaitu bidang ekonomi, bidang kesehatan, dan pendidikan dan keagamaan. Potensi yang ada perlu diberdayakan secara bersama dengan tujuan pencapaian perbaikan kehidupan masyarakat desa Danasari.

Power Structure and its Communication Behavior in San José, Costa Rica

1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold T. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Power Structure ◽  
Standard Technique ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Power Studies ◽  
Community Power Structures ◽  
Problem Solving Process

The word “community” has been defined as a “structuring of elements and dimensions to solve problems which must be or can be solved within the local area.” This problem-solving process by which the community is directed, segmented, and formed into a structure has been the basis of many community power studies. Floyd Hunter was among the first to study this process, employing what has been termed the reputational method of community study. This method is now considered a standard technique for determining community power structures. It consists of a series of interviews with selected community knowledgeables who are asked to name the most influential individuals in the area. This is followed by a second round of interviews with those influentials who received the highest number of “votes” or mentions from the knowledgeables, asking them for a similar listing in order to rank the group of influentials according to their power in the community.

Health promotion through youth empowerment to prevent and control smoking behavior: a conceptual paper

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Heni Trisnowati ◽  
Djauhar Ismail ◽  
Retna Siwi Padmawati
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Planning Implementation ◽  
And Control

PurposeThis paper aimed to review globally the empowerment programs for the prevention and control of smoking behavior among youths, to examine the role of empowerment in health promotion, to explore the stages of health promotion through community empowerment strategies including planning, implementation and evaluation. Finally, this paper will develop a model of youth empowerment to prevent and control smoking behavior that reflects theory and experience drawn from the literature.Design/methodology/approachThis review synthesized articles on community empowerment and health promotion, youth empowerment programs for tobacco prevention and control globally from books and electronic databases from the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) library in the publication period 2000–2020. Relevant literature was selected and critically reviewed which reflected the role empowerment in health promotion, stage of community empowerment strategy as described by Laverack and youth empowerment concept in tobacco control as described by Holden.FindingsDocuments that specifically discuss empowerment programs for smoking prevention and control are still limited. The findings document that youth empowerment in tobacco control do not fully integrate the theory empowerment as described by Laverack and Holden. This paper provides information about the stages of youth empowerment, and a conceptual framework of youth empowerment for the prevention and control of smoking behavior. Youth empowerment is done through the direct involvement of youth in programs starting from program design, planning, implementation and evaluation. Indicators of the success of the empowerment process are reflected in the increase in the empowerment domain. Meanwhile, the output of empowerment can be seen from the individual- or group-level changes.Originality/valueThis paper proposes a model of youth empowerment for the prevention and control of smoking behavior among youths based on theory and experience in the field.

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