How can community empowerment help shape public policy? The first thing is what empowerment is. Empowerment is about increasing people's ability and willingness to influence decisions that affect the quality and delivery of services provided by government and others. For communities to have real and lasting influence on decision making and capacity building within communities (Gregson, Rachel with Court, Liz (2010). What is the difference between systemic and institutional agendas? The institutional agenda is basically an action agenda and will therefore be more specific and concrete in content than a systemic agenda. An institutional agenda does not guarantee that a topic will be put into practice. And the systemic agenda is essentially a discussion agenda which most points consist of all issues that are commonly perceived by members of the political community as deserving of public attention and as issues that fall within the legitimate jurisdiction of existing government authority. example of a systemic agenda is drug abuse and the protection of the environment. And the institutional agenda is political decisions taken at different points of the political system (J., Anderson pag,