This chapter delineates the evolution of two contested, closely related concepts in development ethics – empowerment and participatory development. While empowerment originated in radical feminist ...

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an innovative framework that actively involves young people in designing and conducting research aimed at addressing issues that affect their daily lives.

Our research on governance, power relations, participation and citizen engagement, informs change processes in pursuit of social justice and social change. With power and politics central to our ...

The critical and empirical literature casts considerable doubt on managerial claims to empower workers through various kinds of programs and projects. The gap between the rhetoric of empowerment and ...

A study by the Ministry of Coordinating Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) emphasizes the importance of empowering rural women to build an inclusive Indonesian society through cross-sector ...

We have made great strides in reducing poverty and enabling human development. Ever since poverty trends began to be monitored, the number of people living in extreme poverty and poverty rates ...