Browsing by Subject "empowerment"

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Empowering Women: Policy to Chip Away at Money’s Glass Ceiling
(2018-11-30) Ancheta, Jason Eric A.
Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?
(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-01) von Broembsen, Marlese
This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty reduction discourse. It argues that the value of LEP, as envisaged by its architect, Stephen Golub, is less of a new development paradigm, but rescues one of the strands of the rights-based approaches from a contested discourse, which is being lost to an overly legalistic interpretation. I respond to the critique that the LEP framework lacks conceptual rigour, by initiating a discussion on power and empowerment, the objective of which is to contribute to LEP’s conceptual development. LEP’s focus on power, as opposed to law, critically distinguishes it from the dominant rights-based discourse, yet little attention is paid in LEP literature to constructing a coherent concept of power or empowerment. This paper aims to contribute to the concept of empowerment within the LEP framework. I draw on the work of Lukes and the substantial body of work on empowerment by development scholars.
Local interaction Strategies and Capacity for Better Care in Nursing Homes: A Multiple Case Study
(2014-06) Anderson, Ruth A.; Toles, Mark P.; Corazzini, Kirsten; McDaniel, Reuben R.; Colon-Emeric, Cathleen; McDaniel, Reuben R.
To describe relationship patterns and management practices in nursing homes (NHs) that facilitate or pose barriers to better outcomes for residents and staff. Methods: We conducted comparative, multiple-case studies in selected NHs (N = 4). Data were collected over six months from managers and staff (N = 406), using direct observations, interviews, and document reviews. Manifest content analysis was used to identify and explore patterns within and between cases. Results: Participants described interaction strategies that they explained could either degrade or enhance their capacity to achieve better outcomes for residents; people in all job categories used these 'local interaction strategies'. We categorized these two sets of local interaction strategies as the 'common pattern' and the 'positive pattern' and summarize the results in two models of local interaction. Conclusions: The findings suggest the hypothesis that when staff members in NHs use the set of positive local interaction strategies, they promote inter-connections, information exchange, and diversity of cognitive schema in problem solving that, in turn, create the capacity for delivering better resident care. We propose that these positive local interaction strategies are a critical driver of care quality in NHs. Our hypothesis implies that, while staffing levels and skill mix are important factors for care quality, improvement would be difficult to achieve if staff members are not engaged with each other in these ways.
Male-Centric Metrics Fail to Measure Women’s Progress: Analyzing Women Through Economic, Political, Corporate, and Educational Metrics
(2020-08) Owen, Elizabeth
My thesis is a questioning thesis that examines four metrics used to analyze women's progress in the world today: economic affluence, political influence, corporate influence, and education. I am looking at what these metrics tell us, how adequate these metrics are, and if these metrics provide any substantial information about women’s progress at all. I am analyzing the current political, economic, and social structures in place and whether women can truly progress if these structures are not changing, as well. I am looking at whether researchers can learn anything about women’s progress when they are looking at women through a male lens, using male-centric metrics that have been used to measure male progress.
Power in Community: The Cooperative Model as an Empowering Space of Refuge, Agency, and Support for Survivors of Human Trafficking
(2020-05) Kapuria, Nishtha
Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery where traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion to control another person into engaging in commercial sex acts or soliciting labor and services against her or his will. The current rescue model is flawed because it fails to meet the basic needs of survivors, resulting in the common occurrence of re-victimization post-rescue when survivors voluntarily return to their traffickers. An examination of the issue showed that the current rescue model fails to meet the basic needs of refuge, agency, and support. I hypothesized that cooperative living could be a potential solution that provides all three. After extensive research into the background and current models of cooperative living, I tie the Rochdale Principles, which have guided co-ops since the 1800s, to the three core needs and offer recommendations for an adapted cooperative model that is modified for survivors of human trafficking, along with ideas for future research and steps towards actualization. Cooperatives have long been at the center of reformative justice movements by redistributing power to marginalized communities, like survivors of human trafficking who struggle to successfully re-integrate back into society. Co-ops can offer them a safe and consistent refuge, the ability to regain their agency, and a support system that offers them the chance at family beyond biology.