Empowering Communities: Valuing Empowerment
Bidding for resources to support people and communities to influence public services is not easy in difficult economic times. Three publications funded by Empowering Communities and now available on our website help build the case.
Two related documents, both written by Gabriel Chanan:
Evaluating empowerment
This booklet, Evaluating empowerment - reconciling indicators with local experience, suggests ways of linking official indicators to project-based methods and small-scale local experience to produce a fuller picture.
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Making the business case for community empowerment
A discussion paper intended to stimulate thought and discussion. It is not aiming to be the solution, but may provide a framework for finding one.
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also:
What is Community Empowerment Worth?
An 8 page pamphlet based on Making the business case for community empowerment. For a hard copy of this pamplet, please e mail us at newsandinfo@creatingexcellence.org.uk

