Empowerment Evaluation in Spain: The Critical Friend Role in Working with Rural Communities


Autoria(s): Fernández Moral, María José; Vidueira Mera, Pablo; Diaz Puente, Jose Maria; De Nicolas De Nicolas, Víctor Luis
Data(s)

01/06/2015

Resumo

Rural communities in Cuenca (Spain) are characterized by a great social dislocation, mostly due to the low population density in these areas. In this way, the existence of groups of citizens able to be active agents of their development process is a critical aspect for any community-based development process in this Spanish region. The Institute of Community Development of Cuenca (IDC) has been working with this type of groups for the last 30 years focusing on the organizational empowerment of the rural communities. Main tools in this process have been the empowerment evaluation approach and the critical friend role when helping the groups to achieve their objectives and reinforcing them. This chapter analyses the empowerment process and how the critical friend role is nourished by the facilitator figure.

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http://oa.upm.es/41324/

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM)

Relação

http://oa.upm.es/41324/1/INVE_MEM_2015_229379.pdf

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815027433

info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.483

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, ISSN 1877-0428, 2015-06, Vol. 191

Palavras-Chave #Ciencias Sociales
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Artículo

PeerReviewed