Dimensions and methodologies for empowerment in Gender sensitization

1. Presented by:
Suchitra Singh
DIMENSIONS AND
METHODOLOGY FOR
EMPOWERMENT

2. WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?
Empowerment is the process of obtaining basic opportunities
for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or
through the help of non-marginalized others who share their
own access to these opportunities.

3. It includes actively thwarting attempts to deny
those opportunities.
Empowerment also includes encouraging, and
developing the skills for, self-sufficiency, with a
focus on eliminating the future need for
charity or welfare in the individuals of the
group.

4. 5 CORE DIMENSIONS OF EMPOWERMENT
Employee empowerment is an important
strategy for small business owners and
managers.
Empowering your workers helps them
become meaningful participants in the
decision-making processes within your
company.

5. 1-Surrender Control
 The biggest concept behind
empowerment is that you are
going to give up some control
of decision-making to
employees. .
 If you enable employees to
participate in decision-
making, you are giving them
a way to take more
responsibility, which can
motivate them intrinsically
instead of extrinsically.

6. 2- Create Buy-In
 Giving people more responsibility
and input into decision-making
processes creates the opportunity
for them to "buy-in" to their work
 In the business, ask employees to
help you brainstorm how to
improve a core activity, such as
filling a customer order, with a
goal such as increased efficiency
or customer satisfaction.

7. 3-Source New Ideas.
 Create ways for employees to
suggest ideas on their own
initiative, not just in response
to your requests for input.
 Employees can contribute in
staff meetings, they can
approach managers directly
with new ideas, they can
implement small-scale
innovations in their own work
areas, and they can be actively
involved in making your
business responsive to changing
business conditions.

8. 4-Get the Employees' Vote
Employees should get to vote on
decisions that affect everyone in
the company
This kind of participation in
broad-scale decision-making gives
employees influence over the
financial rewards of their
employment and demonstrates
how much you value their
membership in the company

9. 5-Create Team Decisions
In companies with work teams,
there are many ways to empower
employees. For example, team
members can set their goals and
choose how to best accomplish
them.
This is a powerful concept because
new employees must work really
hard to prove their worth to their
peers to keep their jobs.

10. METHODODOLOGY FOR EMPOWERMENT
Empowerment practice
directs social workers to
address challenges at all levels,
including those of individuals,
families, groups,
organizations, neighborhoods,
communities, and society.
An empowering approach
reveals the worker's
unwavering commitment to
social justice.
This approach operates on the
axiom that we all benefit when
we acknowledge every person's
rights and responsibilities to
contribute to and receive from
community participation in a
reciprocal relationship.
The realization of interpersonal
success builds confidence for
interactions at the institutional
level–feelings that drive
empowered people forward to
assert their rights, develop their
privilege, and fashion just
environments.

11.  Empowering initiatives at
the individual level are
supported and sustained
only by opening pathways
to power sources in
social, economic, and
institutional structures.
 To facilitate
empowerment,
practitioners integrate a
continuum of strategies
ranging from individual
development to
relationship improvement
to resource acquisition
and reallocation through
social and institutional
change.
 The empowerment method
focuses on the achievement
of goals and change of
systems by utilizing
available strengths,
resilience, and resources.
 By focusing on competence
rather than deficits in
individual or social
functioning, the
empowerment model
supports resourcefulness
and the development of
skills to remove social
barriers for individuals
and communities.

12. COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
TEAM (CEDT)
CEDT’s Methodology and Tools
CEDT uses the following
methodologies and tools for
working together with
communities and addressing the
issues related to tenure insecurity:
1.Community mapping and
documentation (CMD)
Community Mapping and
Documentation (CMD) is an
important participatory planning
tool used by CEDT to engage and
empower urban poor
communities on land, housing,
and infrastructure issues.
It involves the creation of
comprehensive hand drawn/GIS
maps and community profiles by
the communities with support
from CEDT’s technical team.
CEDT builds the capacity of
community members and Local
Authorities (LAs) to carry out the
activities themselves, resulting in
the development of community
hand drawn maps and community
profiles.

13. 2. Strengthening Communities
and increasing social capital
The training and capacity
building activities facilitated by
CEDT directly involves
community representatives and
members building their
capacity for community
facilitation, community action
planning, commune investment
plans (CIP) and land rights,
along with helping them to
become agents of change in
their communities.
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3. Community Action Planning
(CAP)
The community action planning
process (CAP) is an
indispensable road map that is
being used as a tool by CEDT
within the communities for
implementing community change
relating to their housing,
development and infrastructure
needs.

14. 4. Participation in Local Governance and
Commune planning
CEDT is trying to increase the
influence of the communities in
deciding which types of development
projects they seek in their
village/commune and sourcing support
for their own projects from their own
Commune funds. In this way,
communities can contribute with
greater participation to local
governance and commune planning.

15. SOME OTHER METHODS FOR EMPOWERMENT:
There is 7 methods to strengthen
communication and performance.
1-Implement Effective Policies and
Procedures
A Policies and Procedures
Manual is a communication tool
designed to empower employers,
managers and employees with a
consistent approach to
accomplishing their daily tasks.
A properly developed manual
focuses everyday business
communications between
employees and management on
what is really important to get the
job done. This focus is the first
step in empowering employees.

16. 2.Convey Management
Policy and Vision
If employees know the
vision, then they feel
confident to make
decisions. Keep in mind,
though, policies should
not be confused with
procedures.
Policy - A definite
course or method of
action to guide and
determine present and
future decisions.
A procedure is a series
of steps followed in a
definite regular order that
ensure the consistent and
repetitive approach to
action.

17. 3- Improve Communication
and Efficiently Run
Operations
If a department has specific
information that it requires
to process a task, then this
information is easily captured
in a form that accompanies
the task. Forms are
commonplace in business,
acting as a guide for such
things as purchase orders,
employment applications or
asset requisitions.

18. 4. Reduce Business
Process Training
Time
A policies and procedures
manual is a functional
guide for training new and
existing employees. It
prevents difficulties in
performing duties due to
lack of understanding or
inconsistent approaches
from personnel changes.

19. 5. Improve Productivity
and Decision Making
Policies and procedures
speed up employee
decision making by
having a handy,
authoritative source for
answering questions.

20. 6. Strengthen Organization
and Quality
It will empower employees
to make decisions
independently without the
need or time delays of
involving various levels of
management.

21. 7. Meet Objectives with Policies
and Procedures Manual
The goal of the policies and
procedures manual is to
identify the ways and means of
communicating, as well as
getting the service performed or
the product manufactured at
the least cost in the minimal
amount of time.