Development Analysis of Economic Empowerment Policies
INTRODUCTION
The course takes an actor-oriented perspective, grounding applied practices in macro-economic, historical and socio-political contexts of local people’s development experiences. It privileges the ways in which development beneficiaries perceive, understand and feel about the imposition of development and culture change and to what extent they can gain knowledge and/or power over this process through the analysis of several community-based case studies. The course also looks at some of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are needed to seek practical solutions in these settings, exploring various participatory field methods concerned with generating shared information, ensuring community empowerment and participation and in eliciting community/ local views
Learning Outcomes
- Secure and accurate understanding of the nature and theories of development at the community and/or grassroots level as well as the main critiques of development from a gender-based perspective.
- Knowledge of and insight into key issues and concerns raised about the nature of development and development studies from a critical perspective.
- Ability to understand and apply key theoretical approaches to contemporary development contexts and situations.
- Capacity to critically evaluate central themes, propositions and concepts in development studies, particularly those concerned with community development and gender-based development.
its for Men and women in community organizations formed at community, village and union council levels, poor and marginalized particularly women and youth, smallholder producers, low-income manufacturers, local market players, and small-scale entrepreneurs etc, Laws and policies on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.