"empowerment scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a plan or program that provides individuals or groups with the power to take control of their lives, typically through a set of skills, resources, or opportunities. For example: "The government's new empowerment scheme will provide low-income families with the resources and skills necessary to achieve financial security."
The government's Black Economic Empowerment scheme has created a class of new entrepreneurs who are often dependent on state contracts, and so inclined to favour the ANC.
South Africa - 'NICRO Diversion Options', L.M. Muntingh and R. Shapiro (eds), National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders (NICRO), 1997 [Pdf 174kb] Detailed, step by step information on each of the 5 NICRO diversion programmes (Youth Empowerment Scheme (YES), Pre-Trial Community Service, Victim-Offender Mediation, Family Group Conferencing & The Journey).
The former reeked of socialism – all taxes, empowerment schemes and regulation.
He went on to say that foreign countries funding youth empowerment schemes in Kenya – a barely veiled reference to the US — were in fact trying to overthrow the government.
Black-empowerment schemes to redress apartheid's injustices have been widely abused to enrich ANC-linked people.
Pugh is her own discovery, at just 19 offering a preternatural knack for both empowerment and scheming, all with a kind of black comedy.
Unimpressed by many of the existing schemes, he came up with a programme called Youth Empowerment Crime Diversion Scheme.
Might another, less dramatic, bank job redistribute wealth more effectively?On October 17th, South Africa's finance minister, Trevor Manuel, and its banks, insurers and investment companies presented a long-awaited "empowerment charter": a scheme to move more capital and financial jobs into black hands.
In addition to the week of adventure activities, the young people tell Hurd that they have enjoyed meeting new people, bonding over the volunteering projects, and the feeling of empowerment and confidence the scheme gave them.
Even though the end-to-end delay was observed to be slightly higher for the proposed scheme, significant empowerment in communication reliability (i.e; expressed as PDR) was obtained, as compared to greedy forwarding.
Similarly, recent programs such as the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (SABLA) that target adolescent girls through the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) provide an opportunity to improve preconceptional nutritional status, as well as deliver messages related to delaying age at first birth and spacing.
