SDC Experience and Practice on Empowerment in the Mekong Region
Empowerment Workshop: Hanoi, April 8th and 9th, 2008
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Fourteen participants from Swiss Cooperation offices in Hanoi and Vientiane gathered in a two-day workshop held in early April to share and learn about empowerment. The workshop facilitated by Reto Wieser from SDC’s Social Development Division aimed to strengthen the participants’ conceptual understanding on empowerment and to embed the issue it in a larger frame of poverty reduction. At the workshop, participants discussed about empowerment in the region, analysed specific interventions and drew conclusions from these analysis. Five possible line actions were defined, including making empowerment explicit and developing it in the Mekong regional programme, strengthening empowerment at project level, and monitoring and reporting on empowerment as process and outcome. |
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Project Analyses: To facilitate the reflection on working with an empowerement approach, workshop participants analysed SDC projects from an empowerment perspective. This analysis covered the project context, objectives, strategies and the role of SDC. The list of key questions that guided the analysis and the individual project analyses can be downloaded below.
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Key questions for analysing a project from an empowerment perspective |
Support to National Legal Aid System in Vietnam | |
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Public Service Provision Improvement Program in Agriculture and Rural Development |
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Lao Extension for Agriculture Project 
Market Access Support through Strengthening Institutional and National Capacities 
Poverty Reduction Fund 
For more information on SDC's activities in the Mekong Region, see our website Swiss Cooperation for the Mekong Region.
If you have an experience of working with empowerment approaches that you'd like to share, or if you have comments about the information presented here, please get in touch!
