This course generally discusses the basic concepts of community empowerment, basic concepts of development, social work empowerment as a learning process and strengthening capacity, empowerment as a community development process and community participation development process, scope and stages of empowerment benefits, strategies and approaches to community empowerment, understanding and indicators of weak groups or beneficiaries of community empowerment, monitoring and evaluation of community empowerment, concept and characteristics of poverty, community empowerment methods, Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA), Participacy Rural Appraisal (PRA), Ruth Alsop‘s community empowerment model, John‘s community empowerment model Friedmann, Deepa Narayan‘s model of community empowerment.
