Because it increases analytical skills and provides communities with their own unique tool to assess the potential impact of projects, programs or policies on the health and well-being of their community it is an empowering process.
Social participation with decentralization policies is perceived as an empowering process that aims to include all different stakeholders in decision making.
From students' point of view, the correspondence of these themes may be interpreted as signs of an empowering process in which students' voices were heard.
"Technology is an empowering tool," said Vallentin.
And that was an empowering idea?
One possible supportive intervention is an empowering discourse.
In a study of difference between enabling and empowering, Espland and Shanta (2001), argue that empowering is an interpersonal process which increases students' control on their practice, while enabling encourages dependent behavior in students.
Thus, in some cases migration can be part of an economic empowering process for women.
Respecting a woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience during childbirth is satisfying and empowering is a critical process often referred to as "humanizing childbirth".
Lansang and Dennis, for example, suggest that capacity building is an " on-going process of empowering individuals, institutions, organizations and nations to define and prioritize problems systematically, to develop and scientifically evaluate appropriate solutions, and share and apply the knowledge generated" [ 13, p. 764 5].
