Social empowerment

Empowerment empowerment as a multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives. It is a process that fosters power in people for use in their own lives, their communities and in their society, by acting on issues they define as important, increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities.
Empowerment is then the process of obtaining the basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to the opportunities. It also includes actively thwarting attempts to deny those opportunities. Empowerment also includes encouraging, and developing the skills for, self-sufficiency, with a focus on eliminating the future need for charity or welfare in the individuals of the group.
Social empowerment- is the process of accessing opportunities and resources in order to make personal choices (e.g. choosing what to eat, what to wear, what neighborhood to live in etc.) and have some control over our environment.
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social empowerment is a process that aims at better life management for young people and by extension, the incremental improvement of their life situation.
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Social empowerment is understood as the process of developing a sense of autonomy and self-confidence, and acting individually and collectively to change social relationships. Poor people’s empowerment, and their ability to hold others to account, is strongly influenced by their individual assets (such as land, housing, livestock, savings) and capabilities of all types: human (such as good health and education), social (such as social belonging, a sense of identity, leadership relations) and psychological (self-esteem, self-confidence, the ability to imagine and aspire to a better future). Also important are people’s collective assets and capabilities, such as voice, organisation, representation and identity.