The paper reveals the conceptual links between power, empowerment and participatory development. Participatory development is deeply rooted with gender issues since participation means inclusion of all kinds of women of the society in to the development process. Participatory development is the...

Over the last two decades development policy has touted civic participation as a magic bullet for solving problems at the local level from improving livelihoods, to selecting beneficiaries for public programs, providing housing after earthquakes and floods, or improving village infrastructure....