Enabling community based organizations to become engines of an inclusive, sustainable community development. The importance of political support and NGO involvement for re - adjusting and levelling the balance of powers in Romanian society, particularly by stimulating the process of CBO emergency in Bucharest

Reinstating the objectives and hypothesis of this thesis paper: General objective: assess the power balance between the local governments (the district municipalities), NGOs and community (organizations) in the context of Bucharest, Romania; Specific objective: build a model of participation, empowerment and support applicable to the Romanian context, to enable a genuine process of inclusive, sustainable community development. Hypothesis: a power unbalance between the local governments (district municipalities), NGOs and community (organizations) may have a negative effect over the process of attaining inclusive, sustainable community development.