Miraftab, F. Women’s Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS). ISBN-10: 9211312744; ISBN-13: 978-9211312744 (pp. 119).   *Translated in three languages and implemented in nine countries through the UNCHS Gender and Habitat program. In 1995 when serving in the inaugural advisory committee to the United Nations’ Secretary General of the Habitat II, Dr. Wally N’Dow, on gender concerns (Huairou Commission 1994-96), I was commissioned to develop and write a research guide for participatory research on gender gaps in low-income communities of Asia, Latin America, and Africa (1995). As opposed to professional researchers entering poor communities gathering information and leaving with harvested data, my mo,nograph included drawings (similar to a graphic novel) that explained step-by-step how to collect and analyze data, so that women with a basic knowledge of reading and writing could conduct research and analyze data about their communities— thus allowing women’s grassroots organizations to claim their “knowledge as power.” The UNCHS published this participatory research guide in 1996; it was translated into three languages and implemented by women’s grassroots organizations in nine countries. In the years that followed I continued this commitment to make my research accessible and, later in my career, co-produced with and for people in the everyday paths of life.