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Pestalozzi 7/2012
International Development Cooperation
Capacity Building
of Actors
Fourth Day
5 July, 2012
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Empowerment
What do we mean by
“empowerment”?
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• Empowerment is about people
 taking control over their lives
 pursuing their own goals, living according to their own values,
developing self-reliance
 being able to make choices and influence - both individually and
collectively - the decisions that affect their lives
• Empowerment is a process, which can be long and complex.
• For women and men to be empowered, conditions have to be created
to enable them to acquire the necessary resources:
knowledge, political voice and organizational capacity
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Some abilities
• Ability to make decisions about
personal/collective circumstances
• Ability to access information and resources
for decision-making
• Ability to consider a range of options from
which to choose (not just yes/no, either/or.)
• Ability to exercise assertiveness in collective
decision making
• Having positive-thinking about the ability to
make change
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• Ability to learn and access skills for improving
personal/collective circumstance
• Ability to inform others’ perceptions though
exchange, education and engagement.
• Involving in the growth process and changes
that is never ending and self-initiated
• Increasing one's positive self-image and
overcoming stigma
• Increasing one's ability in discreet thinking to
sort out right and wrong
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Whose abilities?
The individual level
Here development takes place
through
 processes of learning
 sharing, experiencing
 participation in communities of
practice
 on-the-job training and
coaching
 other learning techniques that
empower and place the
individual in a central and active
position.
Individuals, represent the first
layer. For societies and
organisations to transform and
grow, they need individuals with
skills, knowledge and
experience.
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• as individuals make up
organisations and institutions,
the sharing of
 skills
 knowledge,
 experience
 values amongst individuals
belonging to a group or
organisation translates, over
time
• into the very organisation’s
capacity, consisting of
procedures, systems, policies
and culture.
The organisational level
The second layer of capacity is the
organisational or institutional
level.
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Some lessons learned
Respect, trust, and social relations matter
The best technical ideas have to be
 communicated
 owned
 defended
It takes time, skills, resources, and patience to
build consensus and trust.
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Participatory processes and conflict
management go together
Participatory processes should have
 clearly defined rules of engagement
 rules and mechanisms
for resolving conflict and disagreements that
are known and agreed to by all.
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Poor people’s realities are the starting
point
Looking at the world through the eyes of
poor women and men and then
searching for the best-fit policies for that
political, economic, social, and
institutional context will prevent many
mistakes.
This must be complemented by an attitude
of learning by doing.
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Four empowerment elements act in
together
access to
 timely and understandable information
 inclusion and participation
 accountability and investment in local
organizational capacity
all reinforce each other to deliver better
poverty reduction outcomes.
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The majority of young people do not have
any possibilities:
to fruitfully participate in shaping their
environment,
or to improve their personal situation, or to
bring their potential in building the
society.
There are not any offers of open extracurricular work with the young, which
will enable the young in a less favorable
position and belonging to marginalized
groups to access the support, which will
remove the danger of marginalizing a
large part of young population.
A lack of intercultural and integrating offers
is fertile soil for continuation of
interethnic tensions.
Example from Serbia
(by GIZ)
The National Youth Strategy define the
young as people of 15 to 30 years of
age. In Serbia there are around a
million and a half young people, which
makes twenty percent of the total
population.
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GIZ Serbia
Strengthening of the youth
GIZ programmes for the strengthening of
the youth aim at providing support to
the young directly, directing the
activities at the raising of individual and
social capacities of the young
themselves in the sense of transfer of
knowledge, skills and competences.
Within the scope of the programme
Strengthening of the youth, GIZ is
implementing the following activities:
Support to the youth activities – promotion
of participatory relationships in society
by supporting ideas and actions of the
young through projects they themselves
or together with our office design and
implement.
Leaders/peers education establishing
different educational models with the
aim to implement activities of
strengthening the youth and youth
groups both through individual projects
and cooperation with partner
organizations and professionals who
work with the young.
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Whose capacity?
The individual level
Individuals, represent the first layer of capacity. For
societies and organisations to transform and
grow, they need individuals with skills, knowledge
and experience.
At the individual level capacity development takes
place through demand-driven processes of
learning and knowledge acquisition and sharing,
experiencing, participation in communities of
practice, south-south learning initiatives, on-thejob training, mentoring and coaching and other
learning techniques that empower and place the
individual in a central and active position.
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The organisational/institutional level
The second layer of capacity is the organisational
or institutional level. As individuals make up
organisations and institutions, the sharing of
skills, knowledge, experience and values
amongst individuals belonging to a group or
organisation translates, over time, into the very
organisation’s capacity, consisting of
procedures, systems, policies and culture.
Developing organisations or institutions’ capacity
means fostering change within their complex
system of policies, systems, procedures,
regulations and organisational culture; a
process, fully owned and controlled by the
organisations and institutions that are
undertaking change.
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