<P> According to Robert Adams, there is a long tradition in the UK and the USA respectively to advance forms of self - help that have developed and contributed to more recent concepts of empowerment . For example, the free enterprise economic theories of Milton Friedman embraced self - help as a respectable contributor to the economy . Both the Republicans in the US and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher built on these theories .' At the same time, the mutual aid aspects of the concept of self - help retained some currency with socialists and democrats .' </P> <P> In economic development, the empowerment approach focuses on mobilizing the self - help efforts of the poor, rather than providing them with social welfare . Economic empowerment is also the empowering of previously disadvantaged sections of the population, for example, in many previously colonized African countries . </P> <P> Legal empowerment happens when marginalised people or groups use the legal mobilisation i.e., law, legal systems and justice mechanisms to improve or transform their social, political or economic situations . Legal empowerment approaches are interested in understanding how they can use the law to advance interests and priorities of the marginalised . </P> <P> According to' Open society foundations' (an NGO) "Legal empowerment is about strengthening the capacity of all people to exercise their rights, either as individuals or as members of a community . Legal empowerment is about grass root justice, about ensuring that law is not confined to books or courtrooms, but rather is available and meaningful to ordinary people . </P>

Which of the following is the best example of empowerment