Module 3: Empowerment Flashcards
[Empowerment] What is it?
Going to a powerless group of people and enabling them to tap into their inherent power to be able to take control of their situation.
[Empowerment] What are the 3 forms?
- community organizing
- training for transformation
- advocacy work
[Empowerment] What’s DEMOSS?
discrimination, exploitation, marginalization, oppression, subordination, and sexual objectification
[Community Organizing] What is it?
Uniting people to increase their influence in decision making for policies.
[Community Organizing] What is it in the context of community development?
Identify problems and goals, mobilize resources, and make plan of action on how to achieve goals.
[Community Organizing] What’s the formula?
OOO - Development workers as community organizers to organize organizations.
Communities need to work together in unison to achieve a common goal after all.
[Community Organizing Process] What’s the process?
- Research - identify the problems of our community and gather data on them.
- Plan - gather core team and brainstorm action plan
- Train - teaching community members specific skills
- Pilot - trial period of the preliminary action plan
- Implement - the core team gathers volunteers to execute their projects
- Manage - helping community members adapt to the change brought about by the project
- Monitor - periodic tracking of project to measure progress
- Evaluate - before development workers step down and pass on project control to community members, they must assess the degree to which the projects action plans were successfully achieved.
[Community Organizing Process] further things to know?
- The steps do not follow sequence
- The point of an organization is to allow the community members to unite and strengthen their capacity.
- Most organizations need external financial and economic support to reach sustainability for their projects.
- Sometimes, when development workers enter a community, there already exists united groups. It is the workers’ jobs to simply empower them.
- It’s important to integrate the community’s gender issues and indigenous knowledge into the development process.
[Training for transformation] What is it?
Teaching community members how to do a task and transform their society.
[Training for transformation] What’s CBED?
community based enterprise development program. It means learning without a trainer in peer to peer activities.
[Training for transformation] What does Paulo Freire say in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed?
- education is never neutral - it is either training people to be subservient or to have liberating consciousness
- education should identify issues - the first step of development work is to identify the issues
- education is a search for solutions - the point of development is to look for solutions
- education is a mutual learning process - education should be where community students learn from each other
- education is learning by praxis - this refers to the ability to ability to link knowledge to theory, theory to action, and action to periodic reflection.
[Training for transformation] what is the process?
ADDIE + Feedback Model
- Analyze - process of identifying the needs and goals of the training. It involves assessing needs, analyzing learners, and analyzing settings.
- Design - developing objectives and metrics to measure success indicators.
- Development - this mean constructing and producing the training.
- Implement - using the training in the setting it was planned to be used
- Evaluate - assessing the worth of the training during and after it was implemented.
- Feedback - any attempt to assess the value of the training
[Advocacy work] what is advocacy and what is an advocate?
advocacy - act f arguing for something
advocate - someone who argues i proxy for someone else
[Advocacy work] If advocacy is a means to the end, what is the end?
Helping marginalized people gain favorable policies, laws, programs, and projects.
[Advocacy work] who is the target audience of advocacy work?
the target audience are people who have some degree of power or influence over policies and laws.
[Methods for Advocacy] Who leads advocacy campaigns?
either the people who are directly affected by the issue or people who have permission to campaign on behalf of those affected.
[Methods for Advocacy] What is in the “Good Advocacy Practice Principles Checklist”?
- Accountability
- Legitimacy
- Participation
- Representation
[Methods for Advocacy] What are the methods? (part 1)
- Analyzing policies - analyze policies based on who wins, who loses, its communicability to ordinary people, and it’s impact on marginalized groups. The goal is to identify how legislation can be improved.
- Producing a position paper - Stance of an org about an issue “this is what we think about the topic and this is what we recommend”.
- Producing a briefing note - A briefing note is meant to help someone speak about the issue at an event or meeting. This is to ensure all members give consistent messages.
[Methods for Advocacy] What are the methods? (part 2)
- Holding a face to face meeting with decision maker - Meet with the necessary people and explain (1) what you want to achieve (2) why you want to achieve (3) how you want to achieve and (4) what you want them to do.
- Holding a presentation - presenting visual aid to audience while simultaneously explaining to them. make sure they have a copy after.
- Persuading through drama - this is effective because it makes a theoretical issue more emotionally impactful.
[Methods for Advocacy] What are the methods? (part 3)
- Write a press release - release a story to the media.
- Interviewing someone - Conversation between media interviewer and someone with interesting story that is broadcasted.
- Organizing a press conference - journalists listen to a group of people speak.
[Advocacy Campaign] What is it?
A series of strategic events meant to influence people in authority.
[Advocacy Campaign] What are the methods?
- Issue identification - identify problems
- Research and Analysis - find out as much as possible about the issue
- Planning - decide on what you want to do and a strategy on how you want to achieve it
- Action - communicate your message to target audience
- Evaluation - analyze information to determine if goals of campaign were met
- Reviewing - ongoing learning at every step
