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Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices

The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the succes...

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Main Authors: Md Yassin, Sulaiman, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, Hassan, Md Salleh, Othman, Mohd Shahwahid, Abu Samah, Bahaman
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Language:English
Published: Centre for Extension, Entrepreneurship and Professional Advancement (APEEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/1/39240.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.392402016-01-27T09:09:57Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/ Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices Md Yassin, Sulaiman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Hassan, Md Salleh Othman, Mohd Shahwahid Abu Samah, Bahaman The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the successes and failures of several approaches. However, many development agencies are still grappling with what should be the plausible components of an empowerment model and it remains to be further studied and discussed by experts and practitioners. This paper shall examine and analyse some examples of empowerment concepts and experiments in the past as well as relate to current and on-going empowerment strategies being developed and experimented with in Malaysia and in other countries. Salient constructs found to be successfully implemented and those that have failed shall be duly highlighted and discussed as to why they had been significant factors. Further discussion shall be made on the prospects of empowerment strategies in extension activities in the future. Centre for Extension, Entrepreneurship and Professional Advancement (APEEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia 2010 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/1/39240.pdf Md Yassin, Sulaiman and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril and Hassan, Md Salleh and Othman, Mohd Shahwahid and Abu Samah, Bahaman (2010) Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices. In: International Conference on Agricultural Extension 2010 (AGREX’10): Empowering of Agri-Food Stakesholders in Facing Global Challenges Towards Sustainability, 26-28 Oct. 2010, Palm Garden Hotel, IOI Resort Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 1008-1032).
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description The term empowerment has fast become the currency in many development projects involving beneficiaries, where their meaningful participation is deemed to be worthwhile and crucial to the success of such projects. Several techniques have been used in the past and lessons can be found as to the successes and failures of several approaches. However, many development agencies are still grappling with what should be the plausible components of an empowerment model and it remains to be further studied and discussed by experts and practitioners. This paper shall examine and analyse some examples of empowerment concepts and experiments in the past as well as relate to current and on-going empowerment strategies being developed and experimented with in Malaysia and in other countries. Salient constructs found to be successfully implemented and those that have failed shall be duly highlighted and discussed as to why they had been significant factors. Further discussion shall be made on the prospects of empowerment strategies in extension activities in the future.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Md Yassin, Sulaiman
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Hassan, Md Salleh
Othman, Mohd Shahwahid
Abu Samah, Bahaman
spellingShingle Md Yassin, Sulaiman
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Hassan, Md Salleh
Othman, Mohd Shahwahid
Abu Samah, Bahaman
Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
author_facet Md Yassin, Sulaiman
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril
Hassan, Md Salleh
Othman, Mohd Shahwahid
Abu Samah, Bahaman
author_sort Md Yassin, Sulaiman
title Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
title_short Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
title_full Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
title_fullStr Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
title_full_unstemmed Empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
title_sort empowerment of beneficiaries in community development: understanding the concept and examining present practices
publisher Centre for Extension, Entrepreneurship and Professional Advancement (APEEC), Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 2010
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39240/1/39240.pdf
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