Control over communities

See if you think your understanding of the politics of empowerment would be enhanced by this event, publicised with this image and described in the email blurb I just received as follows:

"The Empowerment Action Plan: Making Empowerment a Reality in Every Community" takes place on Wednesday June 18th 2008 and will examine how authorities will be given increasingly greater control over their communities.

I don't care about the grammar, I'm upset to learn that people 'inside government' hold this understanding of empowerment.