Social empowerment

What this covers

Social empowerment is the process through which individuals and groups gain the real capacity to make choices, exercise rights, access institutions, control resources and influence decisions. It is broader than welfare delivery. Study agency, capabilities, recognition, representation, asset and livelihood access, education, health, safety, legal awareness, accessibility and collective organization. Distinguish formal entitlement from effective access, and assess how caste, tribe, gender, disability, sexuality, age, class and location create intersecting barriers. Empowerment is demonstrated by durable changes in power and outcomes, not by participation figures alone.