Subject(s): Poverty -- Women Empowerment -- Unionization -- Economic Condition -- Women and poverty in south Asia, approaches to women's empowerment, experience of NGOs and POs in working with women -- Case studies : Village and community organizations, AKRSP in Pakistan, transforming women's economies- BRAC, demanding accountability -- Co-operative : Like my mothers house- women's thrift and credit co-operatives in south India, rural women manage their own producer co-operatives- self employed women's association SEWA/ Banaskantha women's association in western India -- Women's banks : Women banking for success- women's development federation -WDF in Sri Lanka -- Unionization : Empowering marginalized workers- unionization of Tobacco, workers by self employed women's association SEWA in Gujarat, Unionization of women in informal sector in Tamil Nadu -- Lessons learned : Sources of disempowerment- marriage and kinship systems, household and extended family, patron client relationships, community groups and local councils, wider economy and markets -- Organizing women for economic empowerment : Autonomy and sustainability of women's organizations -- Empowerment strategies : Specific economic strategies, financial interventions, enterprise development, market strategies, bargaining, socio-political strategies, broader economic support goals -- Economic empowerment of women : Material gains/economic change, direct tangible results, indirect tangible results, less tangible outcomes, increased bargaining power, structural change -- Towards a broader perspective on women's empowerment, economic is political, personal and collective power