Analytic Framework dan Pengembangan Masy. | Keluarga IKMA FKMUA 2010

Empowerement :
An Analytic Framework
Hario Megatsari

Reflection
• People in all walks of life often have difficult
choices to make—but for some the range of
options is more restricted than for others. In
remote villages and urban communities, many
women, men, and children have limited
choices available to them, resulting in a daily
struggle to simply survive.

Reflection
• The poor in particular have limited
employment opportunities, little voice in
decision making over locally available
resources, often lack basic services, have
limited recourse to state-sponsored systems of
justice, and are rarely able to exercise
the right to hold their representatives

accountable.

Reflection
• These people suffer from inequality in terms
of the power they have to change their lives
and escape poverty. Some, such as women
and excluded ethnic or social groups, are even
more disempowered than others.

Introduction
• Understanding and measuring empowerment
and for framing action to further
empowerment of individuals or groups.
• Draws on a long sociological tradition of the
analysis of power
• The framework focuses on the dynamic and
iterative relationship between structure and
agency

Introduction

• Examining the concepts of agency and
opportunity structure
• Considers the degrees of empowerment that
can result from the interaction of opportunity
structure and agency
• Outlines how this can be used to assess
empowerment and factors associated with it
in different domains of life.

The Framework

Framework Overview
• The framework draws heavily on discussions
of power in social theory literature
• The analytic framework treats empowerment
as contingent betwen agency and opportunity
structure relationship.

Framework Overview
• Empowerment is defined as a group’s or

individual’s capacity to make effective choices,
that is, to make choices and then to transform
those choices into desired actions and
outcomes.
• capacity is primarily influenced by two sets of
interrelated factors: agency and opportunity
structure.

Framework Overview
• Agency is defined as an actor’s or group’s
ability to make purposeful choices—that is,
the actor is able to envisage and purposively
choose options.
• Opportunity structure, defined as those
aspects of the institutional context within
which actors operate that influence their
ability to transform agency into action.

Thank You