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S: Worldbank – https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/humanrights (last access: 6 October 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ngo/outreachmaterials/empowerment-booklet.pdf (last access: 6 October 2024).
N: 1. 1849, from empower (empower, v: 1650s, also impower, from assimilated form of en- (1) + power (n.). Used by Milton, Beaumont, Pope, Jefferson, Macaulay, but the modern popularity dates from 1986. Related: Empowered; empowering) + -ment (suffix forming nouns, originally from French and representing Latin -mentum, which was added to verb stems sometimes to represent the result or product of the action. French inserts an -e- between the verbal root and the suffix (as in commenc-e-ment from commenc-er; with verbs in ir, -i- is inserted instead (as in sent-i-ment from sentir). Used with English verb stems from 16c. (for example merriment, which also illustrates the habit of turning -y to -i- before this suffix).
2. A process/phenomenon that allows people to take greater control over the decisions, assets, policies, processes and institutions that affect their lives. (UNHCR).
3. Social Policy (General); Economic Co-operation and Development; Sociology of Women: empowerment.
- The social, economic, political and legal enabling of certain groups, in particular women … to act by granting or re-enforcing rights, abilities and access to facilities previously denied or restricted.
- Empowerment does not mean developing the capacity of women to carry out agendas set for them from outside. Empowerment entails actual agenda setting and therefore requires consciousness-raising and development of capacity.
- … empowerment of women socially, economically, politically.
4. Decision-Making Process; Medicine and Health: patient empowerment, empowerment.
- … patient empowerment is “a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health.”
- Key term: empowerment of the patient.
S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=empowerment&searchmode=none (last access: 3 September 2014). 2. ReliefWeb – http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/4F99A3C28EC37D0EC12574A4002E89B4-reliefweb_aug2008.pdf (last access: 18 October 2015). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=empowerment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 6 October 2024).
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