Empowered Worldview Project Model (EWV)

Empowered Worldview Goal: Empower and mobilize individuals, groups and communities’ gifts, talents, knowledge, resources, and capacities (spiritual, social, physical and economic) to drive social change for sustainable child well-being.

Empowered Worldview is a biblically-based enabling project model that can lead to deeper and more sustainable changes in child well-being when combined with other project models. EWV is a behavior change model that seeks to address dependency mindsets and promote individual empowerment among people living in poverty. The EWV curriculum uses Biblical principles to engage individuals on issues of identity, self-esteem, hope, and vision for the future. It has been shown to have a positive impact on an individual’s level of empowerment, increasing their ability to become agents of change within their own lives, their families and communities.

Project Model Document

Sharing the Empowered Worldview Experience

Breaking the Chains of Poverty with the Empowered Worldview Approach

First-person stories from small business owners, farmers, and faith leaders in three African countries demonstrate the ways faith and biblical...

Empowered Worldviews: Assessing the role of behaviour-change programming on mindsets and livelihoods in Zambia

CPAN partnered with World Vision to conduct an evaluation of the efficacy of WVI's faith-based approach called Empowered Worldview (EWV). The EWV...

World Vision: Transforming Lives through Empowered Worldview

Reese Machola, 45, has been a sole provider and caregiver for her five children since she got separated from her husband a few years ago. She recalls...

Empowered Worldview inspires traditional leadership to kick poverty out of their Chiefdom

Chief Mbang' ombe shares that EWV has completely changed his view of farming.

World Vision is working with traditional leaders to transform lives of...

How Pastor Issaka became a role model in his village thanks to Empowered Worldview

In 2019, 40 religious leaders like Issaka and 40 youth groups were trained in World Vision's Empowered Worldview approach across Maradi. The story...

Empowered World View: How saving 100 FRW Resulted in a School

In front of the World Vision Rwanda (WV Rwanda) team that paid a visit to Remera village, Nyamata District in Eastern part of Rwanda, Triphony is...

The Empowered Worldview Curriculum

This curriculum uses the following areas and mobilize individuals, groups and communities’ gifts, talents, knowledge, resources, and capacities (spiritual, social, physical and economic) to drive social change for sustainable child well-being.

IDENTITY: Participants gain a new view of their identity and value as they learn they are created for a purpose. This frees them from fear and superstition, enabling them to make bolder choices unencumbered by harmful traditions and reliance on aid agencies.
VISION: Participants learn God’s vision for communities to live in harmony. This encourages them to create a new future in which they benefit from the fruits of their labors and have the freedom to act in their communities to achieve this future.
COMPASSION: Participants learn the religious basis for caring for those in need and learn to develop action plans for addressing injustices in their communities.
RELATIONSHIPS: Participants see the importance of building relationships with people of different values and lifestyles, working together to collectively improve their futures.
FAITH IN ACTION: Participants are challenged to become more courageous, believing in their purpose and potential to creatively make use of all resources available to improve the lives of their families.