Training Events & Materials
The Empowerment Thematic Group periodically organizes seminars, workshops, brown-bag lunches (BBLs), and training events. The announcements, presentations and papers presented at the events are archived here. Please click on the name of the event to access these materials (Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them).
Please note that the presentations are usually designed not to stand alone, but to be accompanied by the speaker's lecture. In addition, many presentations are made on work that is still being revised and the versions of the papers shown may not be finalized.
Date Event Presenters July 20, 2005 Youth, Inclusion, and Empowerment through Broadcast Television: Kabataan News Network Dale Rutstein (UNICEF Philippines) and Mojgan Sami (World Bank) April 27, 2005 Making Development Happen: Growth and Empowerment Nicholas Stern June 2, 2004 Offshore Outsourcing of Information Processing Work and Economic Empowerment of Women Swasti Mitter October 21, 2003 Social Capital, Empowerment, and Community Driven Development Ruth Alsop, Rob Chase, and Dan Owen May 20, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Measuring Subjective Well-Being and Power Steven Brown, Ed Diener, Carol Graham, Martin Ravallion, Norman Uphoff April 30, 2003 Community Radio, Voice and Empowerment Steve Buckley, Alfonso Gumucio, Soule Issiaka, William Reuben, Loty Salazar February 4, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Concluding Remarks Anis Dani, John Page, Lant Pritchett, Catalina Smulovitz, Michael Woolcock February 4, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: the National Level Christiaan Grootaert, Phillip Keefer, Stephen Knack, Brian Levy, Carmen Malena February 3, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Community and Local Governance Levels — Part 2 Kaushik Basu, Hans Binswanger, Peter Gubbels, Asim Khwaja, Caroline Moser February 3, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Community and Local Governance Levels — Part 1 Shubham Chaudhuri, Kevin Cleaver, Cyprian Fisiy, Vijayendra Rao, Norbert Shady, Norman Uphoff February 3, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Keynote Lunch Nicholas Stern February 3, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Gender and Household Dimensions Tamar Manuelyan Atinc. Lynn Bennett, Anju Malhotra, Karen Mason, Pierella Paci, Robert Pollak February 3, 2003 Measuring Empowerment: Frameworks and Concepts Ed Diener, Gobind Nankani, Deepa Narayan, Michael Walton July 2, 2002 Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa: Including the Economic Empowerment of Women with Disabilities Bob Ransom (International Labour Offfice, Ethiopia) June 20, 2002 PREM Learning Week 2002: Local Governance and Empowerment: Building State-Society Relations Jean-Paul Faguet, Deepa Narayan, Samuel Paul, Elena Petkanovska, Sanjay Pradhan Victor Vergara June 19, 2002 PREM Learning Week 2002: Empowerment and National Governance: Participation, Accountability, and the Use of Public Money Matthew Andrews Turkewitz Joel Deepa Narayan Frederick Stapenhurst June 18, 2002 PREM Learning Week 2002: Trade, Poverty, and Empowerment Celine Charveriat, David Evans, Ian Goldin, Reema Nanavaty, Deepa Narayan June 17, 2002 PREM Learning Week 2002: Empowerment: A Framework for Policy and Practice Nisha Agrawal, Gobind Nankani, Deepa Narayan, Samuel Paul May 18, 2001 Community Empowerment and Consensus Building: Part 4 Xavier de Souza Briggs May 18, 2001 Community Empowerment and Consensus Building: Part 3 Xavier de Souza Briggs May 17, 2001 Community Empowerment and Consensus Building: Part 2 Xavier de Souza Briggs May 17, 2001 Community Empowerment and Consensus Building: Part 1 Xavier de Souza Briggs