1. Empowerement : An Analytic Framework
Hario Megatsari

2. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

8. The Framework

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Thank You