After a long and arduous battle to establish that human rights interventions can actually translate into long term quantifiable economic benefits to the community along with larger impact on thought processes ( what-is-empowerment ), now the new question was whether there should be a community based institution to sustain the empowerment and the efforts towards poverty reduction. A well regarded development sector consultant suggested in the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) program ( setting-it-right-for-generations-to-come ), the natural progression should be towards formation of SHG federations in order to sustain the collectives that were bringing economic benefits to the participating women and their families.I knew, understanding how it worked in the current environment of donor support, he was trying to save the program the only way he could. But wait a minute! Were we working towards poverty reduction in the strictest economic terms in the Empowering Rural Women (ERW)