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The "Social Movement Perspective" defines participation as the mobilization of people to eliminate unjust hierarchies of knowledge, power, and economic distribution. This perspective identifies the goal of participation as an empowering process for people to handle challenges and influence the direction of their own lives.
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. It is the process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.
People-centered development is an approach to international development that focuses on improving local communities' self-reliance, social justice, and participatory decision-making. It recognizes that economic growth does not inherently contribute to human development [1] [2] and calls for changes in social, political, and environmental values ...
The social action model is a theory of social work practice. The social action model is a key to sociopolitical empowerment for work with oppressed groups, communities, and organizations. [1] [2] The model strives to reallocate sociopolitical power so that disenfranchised citizens can access the opportunities and resources of society and, in ...
Community economic development ( CED) is a field of study that actively elicits community involvement when working with government and private sectors to build strong communities, industries, and markets. [1] It includes collaborative and participatory involvement of community dwellers in every area of development that affects their standard of ...
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. Youth empowerment aims to improve quality of life.
Local economic development ( LED) is an approach to economic development, of note in the developing world that, as its name implies, places importance on activities in and by cities, districts and regions. Local economic development combines economic development activities, urban planning, infrastructure development and social development ...
Positive youth development ( PYD) programs are designed to optimize youth developmental progress. [1] This is sought through a positivistic approach that emphasizes the inherent potential, strengths, and capabilities youth hold. [2] [3] PYD differs from other approaches within youth development work in that it rejects an emphasis on trying to ...