Subject(s): Community development in Developing countries. -- Poverty in Developing countries. -- Community development. -- Frameworks, concepts and methods : Conceptual framework and methodological challenges, evaluating empowerment in Latin America -- Gender and household : Women's empowerment as a variable in international development, measuring women's empowerment in cross national research, gender, power and empowerment- analysis of household and family dynamics -- Subjective well being and power : Psychological empowerment and subjective well being, subjective well being and objective measyres- insecurity and inequality in emerging markets, self rated and welfare in Russia, applying Q methodology to empowerment -- Community and local governance levels : Analytical issues in measuring empowerment at community and local levels, peace, conflict and empowerment- Colombian case, measuring empowerment at community level- an economists perspective, mixing qualitative and econometric methods -- National level : Assessing empowerment at national level in eastern Europe and central Asia, CIVICUS civil society index, empowerment as a positive sum game, democracy and poverty, empowering the poor- what do democracy have to do with it, measuring democratic governance - central tasks and basic problems -- women empowerment