Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the succes...
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Centre for Extension, Entrepreneurship and Professional Advancement (APEEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia
2010
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| author | Md Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Hassan, Md Salleh Othman, Mohd Shahwahid Abu Samah, Bahaman |
| author_facet | Md Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Hassan, Md Salleh Othman, Mohd Shahwahid Abu Samah, Bahaman |
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| description | The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the successes and failures of several approaches. However, many development agencies are still grappling with what should be the plausible components of an empowerment model and it remains to be further studied and discussed by experts and practitioners. This paper shall examine and analyse some examples of empowerment concepts and experiments in the past as well as relate to current and on-going empowerment strategies being developed
and experimented with in Malaysia and in other countries. Salient constructs found to be successfully implemented and those that have failed shall be duly highlighted and discussed as to why they had been significant factors. Further discussion shall be made on the prospects of empowerment strategies in extension activities in the future. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-392402016-01-27T09:09:57Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/ Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices Md Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Hassan, Md Salleh Othman, Mohd Shahwahid Abu Samah, Bahaman The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the successes and failures of several approaches. However, many development agencies are still grappling with what should be the plausible components of an empowerment model and it remains to be further studied and discussed by experts and practitioners. This paper shall examine and analyse some examples of empowerment concepts and experiments in the past as well as relate to current and on-going empowerment strategies being developed and experimented with in Malaysia and in other countries. Salient constructs found to be successfully implemented and those that have failed shall be duly highlighted and discussed as to why they had been significant factors. Further discussion shall be made on the prospects of empowerment strategies in extension activities in the future. Centre for Extension, Entrepreneurship and Professional Advancement (APEEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/1/39240.pdf Md Yassin, Sulaiman and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Hassan, Md Salleh and Othman, Mohd Shahwahid and Abu Samah, Bahaman (2010) Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices. In: International Conference on Agricultural Extension 2010 (AGREX’10): Empowering of Agri-Food Stakesholders in Facing Global Challenges Towards Sustainability, 26-28 Oct. 2010, Palm Garden Hotel, IOI Resort Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 1008-1032). |
| spellingShingle | Md Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Hassan, Md Salleh Othman, Mohd Shahwahid Abu Samah, Bahaman Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title | Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title_full | Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title_fullStr | Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title_short | Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| title_sort | empowerment of beneficiaries in community development understanding the concept and examining present practices |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/1/39240.pdf |
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