Empowerment vs. Development — What's the Difference?

Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities. This enables them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority.

The process of developing or being developed

To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.

An event constituting a new stage in a changing situation

To equip or supply with an ability; enable

The process of converting land to a new purpose by constructing buildings or making use of its resources

The achievement of political, social or economic power by an individual or group.

The process of starting to be affected by an ailment or feeling

The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power.

The process of treating photographic film with chemicals to make a visible image

The state of being empowered (either generally, or specifically).

The process of bringing one's pieces into play in the opening phase of a game

(South Africa) Government programs encouraging advancement of blacks.

The application of techniques or technology to the production of new goods or services.

The act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

The business of constructing buildings or otherwise altering land for new uses.

A significant event, occurrence, or change

A group of dwellings built by the same contractor

The organized activity of soliciting donations or grants; fundraising.

Elaboration of a theme with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

The central section of a movement in sonata form, in which the theme is elaborated and explored.

(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

(countable) Something which has developed.

A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.

The building of such a project.

(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

(music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.

(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.

(math) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.

The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.

The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.

A tract of land on which a number of buildings have been constructed; - especially used for tract on which from two to hundreds of houses have been constructed by a commercial developer{4} for sale to individuals.

Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining;

A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage);

A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation;

The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful;

A district that has been developed to serve some purpose;

A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess);

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level;

Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible;