Empowerment 1 - Academy Fondation Graines de Paix

(English word used in French, for lack of an equivalent word).
Sometimes translated as empowerment (too weak), habilitation (too weak), empowerment, empowerment, empowerment (does not sufficiently describe motivation, speaking out, taking action), social empowerment, appropriation of responsibilities, emancipation, capacitation, encapacitation, enpuissant, désinfériorisation)

See the words potentialisation / potentialiser in this Dictionary for a more detailed definition (words proposed in 2005 by Graines de Paix to translate empowerment / to empower).

The word empowerment does not appear in French dictionaries, although it is widely used in English, French, Italian and other texts. Google counted over 27 million entries with this word in 2005 and 34 million in 2011.

Some dictionaries translate it as autonomization or empowerment , which does not adequately reflect the meaning of the word empowerment, which goes far beyond this to also refer to the psychological and sometimes legal reinforcement of a person’s or group’s ability to act.

Some sites also use the less effective termempuissancement, as there is no corresponding verb to translate to empower, whereas both potentialisation and potentialiser exist in some dictionaries to describe chemical phenomena in particular.

Empowerment is generally subdivided into individual empowerment and community empowerment :

Individual empowerment is the process by which people take control of their destiny and find within themselves the strength to act and overcome obstacles.
Collective empowerment refers to the collective actions of oppressed or underprivileged groups who acquire the power of persuasion they lacked to overcome the social inequalities that disadvantage them.

See : www.bigpond.com.kh/users/gad/glossary/gender.htm