Community empowerment – This book covers the entire syllabus of “Community Health Nursing” prescribed by the Universities of Bangladesh- for Basic and diploma nursing students. We tried to accommodate latest information and topics.
This book is examination friendly setup according to the teachers’ lectures and examination’s questions. At the end of the book previous university questions are given. We hope in touch with the book students’ knowledge will be upgraded and flourished. The unique way of presentation may make your reading of the book a pleasurable experience.
Community empowerment
Community empowerment
Community empowerment refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over their lives. Community empowerment necessarily addresses the social, cultural, political and economic determinants that underpin health, and seeks to build partnerships with other sectors in finding solutions.
Objectives community empowerment
- Promote community development by providing motivation, education and proper cognitive, democratic and social skills
- Increase Palestinian communities’ capacities and resources to bring people together around common goals and interests
- Increase participation of the Palestinian communities in decision-making and problem-
solving processes - Enhance exchange and partnership with local, regional and international communities and groups
- Build up social capital
Competitive Advantages of community empowerment
- People centered, from the people to the people
- Rights based and action oriented
- Increases focus on cooperation and networking with local and international organizations
- Promotes social justice, participation and ownership Promotes peer education and community involvement
- Empowers marginalized groups to take positive control of their own lives
Empower a community
In order to empower a community, that is to involve groups of people in engagement activities, it may be necessary to develop a campaign. However, people should bear in mind that a campaign based on other motivational grounds besides community welfare, fails the whole purpose of community empowerment. Community engagement involves the active participation of individuals and community representatives in all aspects of the campaign. It is very important for the community to be active participants, instead of passive ones.
Empowering people is not an easy task. Individuals often do not have the time, energy, resources, and expertise to develop and implement such campaigns. Community engagement demands certain criteria, namely resources to enable empowerment such as political and legal rights, funding and the social capacity to create mobilization networks, opportunities such as those provided by institutional arrangements and finally motivations for people to exert their rights.
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