Elements of Community Empowerment . It includes capacity to do things that community members want to do. .
Empowerment includes capacity building and strengthening in various dimensions.
Here are sixteen elements of a community that change as the community gets stronger. . As a community develops more altruism, it develops more capacity. The degree to which members of the community share values, especially the idea that they belong to a common entity that supersedes the interest of members within it. . The more that community members share, or at least understand and tolerate, each others values and attitudes, the stronger their community will be. The more that members have access to needed communal facilities, the greater their empowerment.