Tools: Aspirations and Strategic Interests

Name	Description
Appreciative Inquiry-Dialogues Valorisants	Explores a person's experiences of positive change and aspirations to understand his/her stories of change /achievement (agency), in addition to the structures and relationships that have supported or raise barriers in these transformative experiences.
Cognitive-Semantic Mapping of Empowerment	Helps to identify what agency, relations and structures related changes women or men envision for the realization of women’s empowerment.
Defining Empowerment in Desired Changes	Helps to identify what agency, relations and structures related changes women or men envision for the realization of women’s empowerment.
Developing Empowerment Scales	Harnesses group discussions on empowerment to develop domains - across agency, structures and relations - as well as delineate various levels of empowerment within each domain.
Experiential Workshop on Power	Explores how people experience power in order to raise self-awareness (agency). As part of the SII, CARE Ecuador used this methods for both healing as well as to collect information through play resources.
Identifying and Describing Empowered Women	Helps to identify what agency, relations and structures related changes women or men envision for the realization of women’s empowerment.
Impact Dialogues	Examines how participants and communities view changes concerning agency, structures and relations in relation to an intervention and women’s empowerment.