Community Empowerment Goals and Examples

Community empowerment means that people have the resources and talents to manage their affairs, control, and influence various types of social groups and related forces within and outside society. On the other hand, in the empowerment process there is the development of empowered community leaders and organizations .

In this condition, at least community empowerment includes social, cultural , political and economic aspects of society. What is done in order to achieve planned goals, both in the field of health, the meaning of education, and so on.

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Community empowerment is a series of processes that enable people to increase control over their lives. The definition of society here is a group of people who may or may not be spatially connected, but have the same interests, concerns, or identities. These communities can be local, national or international, with special or broad interests.

Whereas empowerment refers to the process by which people gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives. It is a social process and social interaction in which they enhance their assets and attributes and build capacity to gain access, partners, networks and / or voice, to gain control.

Community Empowerment Goals

The objectives of community empowerment are as follows;

1.   Institutional improvements (better institutions)

Through the improvement of activities or forms of social action, it is hoped that this can improve institutions, including the development of business partnership networks . Therefore, empowerment is always intended to increase the possibility of people controlling their own lives.

2.   Business improvement (better business)

Through improvement efforts in educational institutions including increasing enthusiasm for learning, improving business accessibility, activities and institutional improvements, it is hoped that it will also be able to provide improvements to the business being carried out.

3.   Improved income (better income)

Through efforts to improve in the business sector, it is always hoped that it will be able to improve the income it earns, including in this case a series of income in terms of family and society.

3.   Environmental improvement (better environment)

Through the field of improvement and increasing income, it is hoped that it can improve the environment (physical and social), this is because environmental damage is often caused by poverty or limited income.

5.   Better living

The purpose of empowerment is to be able to improve the level of income and an improved environmental condition, so on that basis it is expected to be able to improve the living conditions of every family and community.

  1. Better community

Living conditions that are better with a physical environment and a social environment that support community activities in their lives are expected to be able to realize a better community life as well. This better life is carried out as a goal of implementing empowerment in society.

Example of Community Empowerment

As an explanation in the example of community empowerment in Indonesia. For example, as follows;

1.   Health

In the health sector, recently it has become one of the crucial issues that must be addressed. Not only for Indonesia as a characteristic of a developing country, but also for the world community. Health that is threatened is related to the emergence of Covid 10 or known as the Corona Virus.

The empowerment process in the health sector is carried out by various parties by collecting funds from the community through the KitaBisa platform, after receiving an injection of funds, then the parties give masks to the community and provide counseling so that the community is spared.

Although, this condition is commonplace and is usually considered only as a formality, but on the other hand, social distancing and physical distancing can be controlled for the spread of the virus.

2.   Economy

In the economic sector, a real example in the form of community empowerment is what Kampung Marketer is doing as a social organization that provides training, informal education related to digital marketing.

Kampung Marketer is a community empowerment process in the digital era that has been quite successful. The location of this empowerment process is in Tamansari Village, Karangmoncol District, Purbalingga Regency.

So, that’s an article that we can finish with all circles regarding the goal of community empowerment and examples in the health and economy sectors. Hopefully it will provide insight for those of you who are in need.

 

 

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