Community of Practice

Updates: Gender/Empowerment film series ends on June 8, with Bread and Roses. Social Accountability (SA) Learning Module: first pilot course launched on January 25, 2005  See also: Calendar of Events

 

 

 

 

 

 

The events surrounding the development and release of the Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Sourcebook brought together a wide range of World Bank staff working on empowerment-related issues and indicated that empowerment increasingly is a concept present in the Bank's work.

As a result an active Community of Practice was formed in winter of 2003 with the purpose of exchanging information and experiences. Members of the Community of Practice have explored a range of empowerment related topics through brown bag lunches, learning events and newsletter articles. Following please find links to presentations/summaries from the events and articles from the newsletter. 

Brown Bag Lunches

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	Measuring Empowerment Seminar - Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
	Making Decentralization Work: The Performance of Local Organizations in India
	Human Rights, Development, and Equity
	Missed Opportunities for Poverty Reduction in Uganda
	Empowerment and Vulnerability
	Empowerment through Lending
	Empowerment, CDD and Social Capital
	Human Rights and EmpowermentÂ
	Empowering Project StaffÂ
	Empowering Groups with Special Needs through Demand Driven Projects

Learning Events

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	Social Accountability (SA) Learning Module
	Measuring Empowerment  (59kb PDF)
	Empowerment and Social Sustainability (B-SPAN video)

Newsletter Articles

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	Empowering Women Leaders in Indian Local Governance
	Does School-Based Management Empower Communities?
	Working with NGOs to Empower the Poor
	Empowering the Poor to Fight Corruption
	The Dangers of Empowerment
	Communications for Empowerment
	Measuring Empowerment
	Empowerment and Vulnerable Groups
	Empowerment in the WDR 2004
	PRSPs and Empowerment
	VPs and Directors Speak Out on Empowerment

Join the Community of Practice

Membership to the Community of Practice is open to all Bank staff interested in or working on empowerment-related issues. Non-Bank staff can subscribe to the newsletter as well as submit ideas. Suggestions and collaboration are welcome. To join, send an email to empowerment@worldbank.org.

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