The latter include market mechanisms and paying fees for services rather than co-management. The challenge, then, is to identify key elements of empowerment that recur consistently across social, institutional, and political contexts. Institutional design must then focus on incorporating these elements or principles of empowerment. 2.
Here are 10 ways to rebuild your collagen from the outside in and the inside out: 1  1. Eat more fruits and vegetables -especially those rich in vitamin C such as oranges, strawberries and lemons. 2  2. Drinking enough water and tapering off dehydrating substances such as alcohol and caffeine, can keep your body - and skin - hydrated.
Vitamin C is not only necessary for collagen production and maintenance, but it is also a potent antioxidant that can neutralize free radicals in the skin. Free radicals are atoms or molecules with an unpaired electron.8 Topical vitamin C may also help preserve existing collagen by influencing the enzymes responsible for collagen degradation. 19. Connective structures composed of collagen known as dermal papillae that lie in the skinâs dermis become smaller and weaker as collagen levels decline.