1. The Human Development and Capability Approach - The Role of Empowerment and Participation.- 2. The Practice of Participation and the Capability Approach.- 3. Power and Deliberative Participation in Sen's Capability Approach.- 4. Balancing Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will: Some Reflections on the Capability Approach, Gender, Empowerment and Education.- 5. Notions of Empowerment and Participation: Contributions from and to the Capability Approach.- 6. Process and Outcomes: participation and empowerment in a multidimensional poverty framework.- 7. Participatory Development: A Sustainable Approach for Reducing Inequality and Fighting Poverty? The Example of Disability Policies in Afghanistan.- 8. Children and Youth Participation in Decision Making and Research Processes.- 9. The Integrated Capabilities Framework: Exploring Multiculturalism and Human Well-Beingin Participatory Settings.- 10. Participatory Research Methods and the Capability Approach: Researching the Housing Dimensions of Squatter Upgrading Programmes in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.- 11. Participatory Monitoring of Development Projects in the South Pacific.- 12. Planning and Managing for Human Development: What Contribution Can the Capability Approach Make?.- 13. Emancipatory Research as Empowerment: An Illustration from a Research Study of Persons with Disabilities in Palestine.- 14. Capability Development and Decentralisation.- 15. Participation, Empowerment and Capabilities: Key Lessons and Future Challenges