Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development

Empowerment has become an eloquent catchphrase in many development projects. While commonly used, the implications of empowerment in development work have been criticized because of the inherent assumption that someone has the power to give power to another. At the same time, small scale farmers hav...

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Main Author: Robinson, Sara
Other Authors: Yhteiskuntatieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
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Language:eng
Published: 2010
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description Empowerment has become an eloquent catchphrase in many development projects. While commonly used, the implications of empowerment in development work have been criticized because of the inherent assumption that someone has the power to give power to another. At the same time, small scale farmers have been identified as key figures not only in rural development, but also for national economic stability and growth. However, in reality rural communities are largely left out of the design and implementation of the very projects that intend to contribute to rural people’s empowerment. By relying on theoretical roots of the meanings of empowerment from community psychology, education and other fields, this study focuses on the need of all to feel empowered, all gaining possibilities to empower oneself and contribute to empowering opportunities for others. The aim is to explore contextual meanings of empowerment and the collaborative relationships built between rural communities and development agencies through projects as the medium, while recognizing varying levels of complications within project interactions. Intrapersonal empowerment in this research has been the first to be impacted at greater levels, even in the case where structural, governmental, managerial, spatial and time complications have kept the program from achieving many of its intended goals. Still, empowerment can flourish with personal involvement, both men and women’s participation as well as caring and respectful interactions in project work. Through my qualitative fieldwork in Nicaragua, I consider questions over the notions of ‘empowerment’ and focus on factors of empowering conditions within project complexities. This case study approach, carried out primarily through methods of participant observation and interviews, scrutinized the following aspects of empowerment: learning through interaction and project processes from both community and organizational perspectives, ownership and vision as well as participant involvement.
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title Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
title_full Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
title_fullStr Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
title_full_unstemmed Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
title_short Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
title_sort complexities of project interactions in nicaraguan rural development
title_txtP Complexities of project interactions in Nicaraguan rural development
topic complexity empowerment rural development perspectives interaction Yhteiskuntapolitiikka Kansainvälinen kehitystyö (maisteriohjelma) Social Policy Master's Degree Programme in Development and International Cooperation 209 211 kompleksisuus voimaantuminen kehitysyhteistyö kehitysmaat maaseutu vuorovaikutus
topic_facet 209 211 Kansainvälinen kehitystyö (maisteriohjelma) Master's Degree Programme in Development and International Cooperation Social Policy Yhteiskuntapolitiikka complexity empowerment interaction kehitysmaat kehitysyhteistyö kompleksisuus maaseutu perspectives rural development voimaantuminen vuorovaikutus
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