Construct Of Empowerment Research Articles

Empowered hospitalized patients are involved in shared decision making on antibiotic therapy: a quantitative analysis

BackgroundHalf of hospitalised patients receive antibiotics, but they are rarely involved in shared decision making (SDM) on antibiotic therapy. We sought to understand the association between patient empowerment and their involvement in SDM on antibiotic therapy. MethodsFrom March 2021 to April 2022, we conducted a cross-sectional survey on hospitalised patients receiving antibiotic therapy for ≥1 day in a 1600-bed adult general hospital in Singapore. The questionnaire included 7 items (5-point Likert scale) on involvement in SDM from SDM-Q-9 (Kriston,2012) and 10 items (4-point Likert scale) on patient empowerment from HCEQ-10 (Gagnon,2006). A multivariable logistic regression model was constructed to assess for independent associations between the three constructs of patient empowerment and involvement in SDM on antibiotic therapy. ResultsOf 636 hospitalised patients, mean age was 57.6 (SD 15.5) years, 61% were males and 37% had tertiary-level education. The majority (90%) were aware that they were on antibiotic therapy, but only 11% of them knew the name of the antibiotic given. After adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, educational level, and duration of hospital stay, patients with a high-level of involvement in decisions (Adjusted odds ratio[AOR] 3.63, 95% CI 2.19-6.01), interactions with healthcare professionals (AOR 1.77, 95% CI 1.03-3.02), and degree of control over their hospital care (AOR 1.90, 95% CI 1.15-3.12) were more likely to have a high-level of involvement in SDM on antibiotic therapy. ConclusionsEmpowering hospitalised patients with involvement in decisions, interactions with healthcare professionals, and control of their hospital care can increase their participation in SDM on antibiotic therapy in hospitals.

Digital Health Empowerment, Autonomy, and the Capability Approach: Reply to de Proost and Grey

De Proost & Grey criticize Nickel et al.’s article “Justice and empowerment through digital health: ethical challenges and opportunities,” arguing that it should have embraced relational autonomy and capability approaches. We distinguish two variants of this critique, one saying that a view of digital health empowerment should welcome these approaches, and one saying that a view of digital health empowerment should essentially be defined in terms of these approaches. We are somewhat open to the first variant: relational autonomy and the capability approach are promising ways of spelling out the ethical values behind digital health empowerment, even if they are not completely unproblematic and uncontroversial. However, there are reasons to reject the second variant. A view that leaves the exact normative commitments of digital health empowerment open is persuasive to a wider audience, and more amenable to different constructs of autonomy, capability, and empowerment across disciplines.

The EMERGE framework to measure empowerment for health and development

RationaleWomen's empowerment is a UN Sustainable Development Goal and a focus of global health and development but survey measures and data on gender empowerment remain weak. Existing indicators are often disconnected from theory; stronger operationalization is needed. ObjectiveWe present the EMERGE Framework to Measure Empowerment, a framework to strengthen empowerment measures for global health and development. MethodWe initiated development of this framework in 2016 as part of EMERGE – an initiative designed to build the science of survey research and availability of high-quality survey measures and data on gender empowerment. The framework is guided by existing theories of empowerment, evidence, and expert input. We apply this framework to understand women's empowerment in family planning (FP) via review of state of the field measures. ResultsOur framework offers concrete measurable constructs to assess critical consciousness and choice, agency and backlash, and goal achievement as the empowerment process, recognizing its operation at multiple levels-from the individual to the collective. Internal attributes, social norms, and external contexts and resources create facilitators or barriers to the empowerment process. Review of best evidence FP measures assessing empowerment constructs, social norms, and key influencers (e.g., partners and providers) show a strong landscape of measures, including those with women, partners, and providers, but they are limited in assessing translation of choice to agency to achievement of women's self-determined fertility or contraceptive goals, instead relying on assumption of contraceptive use as the goal. We see no measures on collective empowerment toward women's reproductive choice and rights. ConclusionThe EMERGE Framework can guide development and analysis of survey measures on empowerment and is needed as the current state of the field shows limited coverage of empowerment constructs even in areas which have received more study, such as family planning.

Konstruksi women empowerment dalam film Memoria

Women empowerment is a form of women's resistance to the domination of power and gender-based violence. This research aims to reveal the construction of women empowerment in the film Memoria (2016) by Kamila Andini through analysis of the film's narrative structure and cinematographic elements. The identification of the film's narrative structure uses Gérard Genette's narratology theory through the concept of focalization and the identification of cinematographic aspects using Metz semiotics. The method used in the research is the descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques were carried out by reviewing film sequences, literature studies, and identifying cinematographic aspects. The results show that Maria's focalization dominates the story, moves the story, and there are six grand syntagmas, namely descriptive syntagma, parallel syntagma, bracket syntagma, scene, episodic sequence, and insert subjective. Analyzing the narrative structure and the cinematographic aspects of the film through a series of syntagms, both represent the construction of women empowerment continuously. Maria is a woman who survives various life challenges and can heal the trauma within herself. The healing process starts from within oneself (self-healing) and then sharing stories (sharing) with family or trusted people. These things are steps toward freedom, justice, and women empowerment.

The motivational micromanager

Micromanagement is a well-known phenomenon in the modern workplace. However, there’s a new subtype of micromanager: the motivational micromanager. This type of manager is showing up more and more in offices around the globe, and they can be as dangerous to innovation and team motivation as traditional micromanagers. The objective of this paper is to introduce the concept of the motivational micromanager, a leader who believes that when they give advice and detailed instructions, often with a smile and great enthusiasm, they are motivating their employees to succeed. Micromanagement is seen by many as even dangerous to organizational success and employees who work for motivational micromanagers are also at risk for burnout and quiet quitting because they, too, feel the strain of following detailed instructions, respecting a rigid regime, and avoiding mistakes at all costs. We discuss how motivational managers can shake free of the delusion that they are serving their employees. They need training and support to learn how to encourage others to come up with their own solutions, to create positive work cultures where innovation flows, to give and receive feedback without fear of retaliation, and to accept that mistakes are part of the learning process. The motivational micromanager borrows from two leadership constructs of empowerment and micromanagement. On the one side leaders wish to empower others with the best intentions and a motivational approach, on the other hand however the reality of the execution indicates a new sub-form of micromanagement. The distinctive contribution of this paper is to firstly label and uncover motivational micromanagement and raise awareness that this new species of managers exists and secondly to provide practical implications for MBA students, Executive Education programs and managers to move out of the micromanagement and into a truly empowering mode of leadership.

THE EXPANDED DIGITAL MEDIA EMPOWERMENT ON SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SETTING

Background: Digital media empowerment by ensuring equitable access to digital technologies and safeguarding against digital divide issues. Legal measures also ensure that digital platforms are not misused for spreading misinformation or engaging in unlawful activities. This study expanded the digital media empowerment construct for Jakarta's senior high school students to eight dimensions, blending awareness, motivation, technical access, empowerment, and gratification dimension with three dimensions of social contract utilitarianism, egalitarianism, and real equality of opportunity.
 
 Method: This study applied an explanatory quantitative approach and conducted a survey. Six hundred respondents were online surveyed and analyzed to confirm the integration of eight dimensions of digital media empowerment. Eight dimensions were validated by Person’s correlation of validity and assessed by Cronbach’s Alpha of reliability. The integrated dimension was tested as a hypothesis by Confirmatory Factor Analysis by showing the value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling and Barlett’s Test of Sphericity.
 
 Results: The result of validity, reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis proved the integration of eight dimensions of digital media empowerment. The results highlighted a significant correlation among all eight dimensions with the digital media empowerment construct. The gratifications dimension is the most dominant dimension of digital media empowerment from students’ perspectives on digital technology usage.
 
 Conclusion: The integration offers a more holistic understanding of justice distribution in the secondary educational setting. It underscores the importance of considering both technological and ethical-social factors in shaping students' digital experiences and competencies, paving the way for more targeted and sustainable educational development in the digital era.

Psychological Empowerment Link Using Employee Performance and Organizational Commitment on the Generation Gap: PLS-MGA Analysis

The generation gap is critical, especially when employees do not agree about some terms that affect their completion of tasks. This issue is debated in organizations, causing incompatibilities between human resource management and development structures. Hence, these constraints led this study to measure the differences shown by generations X and Y, and how they impact the relationship between psychological empowerment, employee performance, and organizational commitment. This research used questionnaires and in-depth interviews as the main procedures for collecting and obtaining data—196 items of data were received from the Malaysian Islamic Finance Agency. SmartPLS software was used to test the research hypotheses and the differences between the two groups are Gen X and Y (PLS-MGA). The results of the PLS-MGA test confirmed that, in the relationship of psychological empowerment and job performance alone, it was found there was a generational difference between X and Y (p-value < 0.05). However, while running the hypothesis test (using the bootstrapping test), it was found that both hypotheses are acceptable, which shows the relationship between psychological empowerment and job performance based on two different groups, namely Gen Y = t-statistic (10.961) and Gen X = t-statistic (11.993). Thus, H1 is supported. Meanwhile, the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment is based on two different groups, namely Gen Y = t-statistic (8.675) and Gen X = t-statistic (8.349), which means H2 is also supported. Consequently, it is hoped that the findings of this study will serve as essential guidance for employers in both the public and private sectors. Human resource management teams can use the findings to understand the natural complexity of psychological empowerment constructs in realizing the challenges and difficulties in predicting organizational goals, in terms of job performance and organizational commitment.

Research on the Influence Mechanism and Path Construction of Transformational Leadership and Psychological Empowerment on Employee Performance

Research on the Influence Mechanism and Path Construction of Transformational Leadership and Psychological Empowerment on Employee Performance

Development of a patient-reported outcome measure of digital health literacy for chronic patients: results of a French international online Delphi study

BackgroundA psychometrically robust patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) to assess digital health literacy for chronic patients is needed in the context of digital health. We defined measurement constructs for a new PROM in previous studies using a systematic review, a qualitative description of constructs from patients, health professionals and an item pool identification process. This study aimed to evaluate the content validity of a digital health literacy PROM for chronic patients using an e-Delphi technique.MethodsAn international three-round online Delphi (e-Delphi) study was conducted among a francophone expert panel gathering academics, clinicians and patient partners. These experts rated the relevance, improvability, and self-ratability of each construct (n = 5) and items (n = 14) of the preliminary version of the PROM on a 5-point Likert scale. Consensus attainment was defined as strong if ≥ 70% panelists agree or strongly agree. A qualitative analysis of comments was carried out to describe personal coping strategies in healthcare expressed by the panel. Qualitative results were presented using a conceptually clustered matrix.ResultsThirty-four experts completed the study (with 10% attrition at the second round and 5% at the third round). The panel included mostly nurses working in clinical practice and academics from nursing science, medicine, public health background and patient partners. Five items were excluded, and one question was added during the consensus attainment process. Qualitative comments describing the panel view of coping strategies in healthcare were analysed. Results showed two important themes that underpin most of personal coping strategies related to using information and communications technologies: 1) questionable patient capacity to assess digital health literacy, 2) digital devices as a factor influencing patient and care.ConclusionConsensus was reached on the relevance, improvability, and self-ratability of 5 constructs and 11 items for a digital health literacy PROM. Evaluation of e-health programs requires validated measurement of digital health literacy including the empowerment construct. This new PROM appears as a relevant tool, but requires further validation.

‘The Girls are Alright’: Beauty work and neoliberal regimes of responsibility among young women in Urban India

This article addresses the complex ways in which poor urban women’s educational and training needs are embedded in official discourses of capacity creation and are constructed in opposition to their community and kinship networks, an aspect that is very often overlooked when such programmes are designed. It argues that this oversight is not a coincidence, as neoliberal policies and discourses of empowerment construct young women as ‘subjects of capacity’. Where they are addressed directly, young women are framed as the single, autonomous subjects of liberalism who, once enabled, overcome ‘traditional’ kin and community attachments. Based on the ethnographic study of vocational training for beauticians provided by an Indian NGO, the article argues that such interventions are geared towards ‘community development’ and therefore reference broader social landscapes, but that the participants in training see themselves and the process as part of, rather than as opposed to, kin and community obligations. While education and training are more often than not conceived as stand-alone projects offering young women a way into employment and the labour market, the article foregrounds the class-based limits of such workist approaches and the entanglements between body work, caste/class, and histories of feminized poverty. It demonstrates how young women from lower-caste and lower-class backgrounds see opportunities in the beauty industry mainly as supporting their roles as responsible daughters, future wives and daughters-in-law realized within the complex economies of marginal urban communities. They are also acutely aware that while the actual work of the beautician allows some access to the world of ‘professional’ modern and classed notions of femininity and, arguably, a more dignified workplace than in domestic service, the pitfalls of an industry built on gendered, racialized and classist inclusions and hierarchies are noted too. Critiquing the mainstream feminist focus on access to the labour market, the article argues that young women are fully aware of their own precarious relationship with ideals of neoliberal constructs of autonomous subjectivities promoted by the state and its agents.

Adaptation of the sexual and reproductive empowerment scale for adolescents and young adults in Kenya.

Measuring empowerment is critical to understanding the level of control adolescents and young adults (AYA) have over their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) behaviors, and could provide a key window into addressing their unique SRH needs. We adapted the Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment (SRE) scale for AYA for use in an East African context. This multi-method qualitative study sampled 15-23 year-old female adolescents and young adults in Kisumu, Kenya. We conducted in-depth interviews (n = 30) and analyzed transcripts with an inductive, constant comparison approach. Empowerment domains were integrated with Kabeer's (1999) framework in a conceptual model, which we referenced to revise the original and develop new scale items. Items underwent expert review, and were condensed and translated through team-based consensus-building. We evaluated content validity in cognitive interviews (n = 25), during which item phrasing and word choice were revised to generate an adapted SRE scale. Participants (n = 55) had a median age of 18 (range 16-23), and 75% were under 19 years. We categorize three types of adaptations to the SRE scale: new item generation, item revision, and translation/linguistic considerations. We developed nine new items reflecting AYA's experiences and new domains of empowerment that emerged from the data; new domains relate to self-efficacy in accessing sexual and reproductive health care, and how material needs are met. All items were revised and translated to echo concepts and language relevant to participants, navigating the multilingualism common in many African countries. Centering the voices of female Kenyan AYA, this study provides insight into measuring the latent construct of adolescent sexual and reproductive empowerment in an East African setting, and supports the adapted SRE scale's content validity for Kenya. We detail our multi-method, theory-driven approach, contributing to limited methods guidance for measure adaptation across contexts and among diverse adolescent populations.

Prevalence and perceptions of gender-based violence, and factors associated with gender-based violence among adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Cross-sectional study.

This study examined the prevalence and perception of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and factors associated with GBV among in-school Ethiopian adolescents. This cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted in Addis Ababa with 1,014 male and female adolescents aged 15-19. We examined differences by sex using the two-sample test of proportions and used multiple regression models to identify factors associated with GBV. Male respondents reported higher acceptability of GBV, while the overall mean empowerment construct was higher among females. Older adolescents (AOR: 1.43, 95% CI: 1.21, 1.69) and females (AOR: 2.15, 95% CI: 1.46, 3.14) were significantly more likely to experience sexual violence, and males were more likely to experience physical violence (AOR: 3.71, 95% CI: 2.15, 6.39). The study emphasizes the need for urgent multisectoral engagement to prevent and respond to GBV among adolescents. Tailored, school-related interventions may be an important means to address, prevent, and refer survivors of GBV.

Evaluating the Mediating Effect of Employee Training on the Link between Employee Empowerment and Organizational Performance

Assessing employee training as a mediator on the relationship between employees' empowerment and organizational performance offering insights for effective training interventions to further enhance employee empowerment and overall organizational success. Hence, this paper discusses a study on assessing a mediation effect of employee training which act as mediator to the relationship between the employee empowerment constructs with organisational performance construct. Data used to develop this mediation model was from 115 employees of UAE Federal National Council Organization. The model was developed and assessed in SmartPLS software using the concept of PLS-SEM technique of model development. The model was assessed in three processes which are the PLS Algorithm; Blindfolding and Bootstrapping. The results of mediating modelling assessments found that there is no evidence of mediation effect of Employee Training on the relationships of Meaning and Organization Performance and also, between Competence and Organization Performance. However, there is a partial mediation effect of Employee Training on the relationship between Impact and Organization Performance, indicating that Employee Training partially mediates the relationship between Impact and Organization Performance. Additionally, Employee Training fully mediating the relationship between Self-determination and Organization Performance. The table provides insights into the complex relationships within the model, clarifying the role of mediation in explaining the associations between variables. The findings from this study contributes knowledge on the mediation model of employees’ empowerment on organisational performance.

Influence of Knowledge Aspects of The Multicultural on The Implementation of Multicultural Education in Elementary Schools

This study examines the knowledge level of Multicultural Education among national school teachers in Negeri Sembilan. This study was conducted on 927 teachers who teach in national-type schools in Negeri Sembilan. This study aims to identify the influence of knowledge about multicultural education from content integration knowledge, knowledge construction, equity pedagogy, prejudice reduction and knowledge of school cultural empowerment and social structure on implementing multicultural education in primary schools. It is quantitative survey research. The questionnaire was distributed to 927 respondents consisting of teachers who teach in national-type schools in Negeri Sembilan. The data of this study was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 26.0. Two types of statistics are used, namely descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation are used to describe the profile of the respondents and answer the research questions. The data of this study was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 26.0. Multiple Regression Statistics are used to identify the influence of multicultural education knowledge from knowledge of content integration, knowledge construction, equity pedagogy, prejudice reduction and knowledge of school cultural empowerment and social structure on implementing multicultural education in primary schools.

Career Don’t Stop Believing: Career Empowerment as a Mediator between Hope and Organizational Outcomes

The growing trend towards individual career management requires understanding the driving forces of career changes. In the current study we explore how personal resources, namely hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and social support are associated with the motivational construct of career empowerment, which in turn predicts employees’ behavioral (OCB, performance appraisal) and attitudinal (job engagement, life satisfaction) outcomes. We conducted a quantitative study in which 251 full- and part-time employees completed paper-and-pencil surveys measuring internal and external resources, and career empowerment. Our results indicate that the research variables are significantly and positively correlated with one another. Mediation analyses with competing models indicate that career empowerment is a partial mediator between personal resources and various outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Role of Training in Women Empowerment: An Empirical Analysis

India is progressing economically, but it needs to pay more attention to social and human development together with women empowerment. The economic contribution and empowerment of women are pertinent to strengthen female’s rights andenable them have control on their lives and influence the society. Sustainable development can be achieved through economic empowerment of women. Empowered women and gender equality lead in multiplying the development efforts. Under the SDG-5, India has stated that it will ensure women and girls contribute as equivalent partners to growth and development of the country by 2030. At the global level too, it has been observed that if women participate equally with men in the economic activity, the world will add $11 trillion in the annual 2025 GDP. Investing on education and skill enhancement through Vocation education and training. has been a pertinent issue for the Indian government for the last decade. The current paper identifies the constructs of women empowerment and observes the role of formal and informal training in female empowerment. In all 317 women participated in the study through two stage sample design involving area sampling followed by convenience sampling. The study identified five constructs of women empowerment Economic Empowerment, Family Health and Well Being, Civic Empowerment, Social Empowerment, Educational Empowerment through exploratory factor analysis confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis.Further, the mean scores of all the constructs of women empowerment for formally trained respondents were higher than informally trained respondents but no significant difference between women empowerment, constructs of formally and informally trained womenobserved in the study.

Longitudinal psychological empowerment profiles, their determinants, and some health-related outcomes

ABSTRACT This research relies on bifactor models to help improve our understanding of the dimensionality of the psychological empowerment construct. We also examined the configurations, or profiles, taken by psychological empowerment dimensions, and documented their stability over time as well as the associations between these profiles and theoretically-relevant predictors (workload, supervisor support, overall organizational justice, and role clarity) and outcomes (alcohol consumption, sleeping difficulties, and depressive symptoms). A sample of 750 healthcare workers completed a questionnaire twice over a one-year period. First, our results showed that employees’ psychological empowerment ratings simultaneously reflected a global overarching construct co-existing with four specific dimensions (competence, impact, meaning, and self-determination). Then, five profiles were identified and found to be highly stable over time: Low Empowerment, Moderately High Empowerment and Impact, Normative, High Empowerment, and Moderately High Empowerment and High Meaning. Role clarity was also associated with a higher likelihood of membership into the High Empowerment profile and a lower likelihood of membership into the Low Empowerment one relative to the other profiles. Finally, employees’ depressive symptoms were the highest in the Low Empowerment profile.

Local meanings and perceptions of women’s empowerment: Qualitative evidence from female and male farmers in rural Ghana

Assessing the relationship between empowerment and nutrition along the agriculture-nutrition pathway is limited by dissimilar emic and etic views of the construct, limited understanding of its contextual variation, and measurement difficulties. This study explored local meanings and perceptions of empowerment among women and men farmers in rural Ghana. The qualitative study took place within the LinkINg Up project, a quasi-experimental, nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03869853) in three sub-districts of the Eastern Region. The intervention was implemented through farmer-based organizations (FBO) that were selected using a set of criteria such as female representation and level of member participation. Within the FBO, all women were recruited to participate along with one male adult family member (spouse/partner, older son, father). Non-FBO members (women and their male family member) from the same communities were also enrolled as a comparison group. This manuscript addresses an independent research question on empowerment, not the LinkINg Up intervention outcomes. For the question, participants (53 females and 45 males) were selected purposefully based on FBO membership of the woman (member, non-member). During the first three months of the project, eight focus group discussions (FGD) with women and seven FGD with men were conducted to probe into local understandings of empowerment and women’s empowerment (WE). The FGD were translated to English from the local language and transcripts were coded using a Constructivist Grounded Theory approach (open, axial, selective coding) with MAXQDA 2022. Women and men described empowerment in terms of an individual’s capability to improve circumstances by setting and meeting intentional and measurable goals. The construct of empowerment was made up of internal and external components. Internal components were those that were essential to allow one to be empowered, such as self-confidence, while the external components of empowerment were related to personal and community factors that empowered people, for example, asset ownership and social support. Emic understandings of WE were often related to women’s relationships with others and their roles (reproductive, productive, and community) within the studied context. The local descriptions of an empowered woman were categorized as someone who: i) exhibits qualities that are perceived to help one achieve goals, ii) takes actions to achieve goals, and iii) works with others to achieve own goals or common goals. When assessing WE in the study area, it is important to incorporate measures for women’s goal-setting capacity in relation to farming and business activities, and their ability to implement their goals, while taking into account relational aspects. Key words: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture, Farmers, Empowerment, Emic, Women, Gender, Low-income population, Ghana

Covid-19 in the hospitality industry workforce: the resilience of hotel workers through human resource empowerment and motivation

The article aims to summarize the main arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on human resource empowerment and its impact on motivation as the main factor to resilience hotel workers getting through the pandemic Covid-19. The research variables which include human resource empowerment and Motivation in this study are latent so to identify the influence of the independent latent variables on the dependent latent variable, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. From the respondent's views, the study found out that, on the empowerment construct all statements scored above 3 except credibility. Within a coefficient of determination, it shows that the variation of the motivation variable for hotel workers during the pandemic is 52 percent influenced by human resource empowerment carried out by the management. Therefore, it can be concluded that to strengthen the empowerment of workers through the pandemic, the hotel should strengthen its capacity for worker empowerment within opportunity, delegate, provide for recognition, and create an open communication system to create mutual understanding between employees and management.

COASTAL WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PROCESSING OF FISHERY PRODUCTS IN TERNATE CITY

This article reports women’s empowerment activities in a fishery product processing program in Ternate City. Groups are assessed, not in terms of their success in producing fishery products and the impact on increasing the income of coastal families, from an economic perspective, but in terms of women’s contribution and participation to women’s empowerment in the program. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach with data collection techniques carried out through in-depth interviews, observations and literature studies. Evidence emerged that women were only involved in the program implementation process. They are not involved in the process of determining women’s basic needs in fishery business diversification, planning, monitoring and program evaluation stages. When considered in the construction of empowerment and democratization processes. Coastal women have not been involved as subjects in a fishery product processing program that aims to free them from poverty through various business trainings. As well as the cultural influence of coastal communities who still live in the customs of the Sultanate of Ternate. So that the results of the program based on the perspective of women’s empowerment do not contribute to the critical awareness of coastal women so that an inclusive and equitable model of coastal women’s intervention is needed and pays attention to social and cultural structures.