/ Empowerment, commonly of the poor and/or women, is considered as a crosscutting issue inrndevelopmental work apropos poverty reduction and gender equality. Closely linked to this vista,rnthe study is conducted with the main objective of cross-examining the local government's stab atrnincorporating gender perspective in economic empowerment endeavors. A particular emphasisrnis thus, given to examination of the panorama of self-employed women in the informal sector andrntheir access to productive resources and assets. Thereupon, the status of the informal self-employedrnwomen is appraised apropos livelihood engagements and labor, access to relevantrninformation, collective capabilities and its benefits, financial support and access to credit, andrnawareness on salient policies and individual agency.rnTo comply with the objective of the study, data is collected from both the informal self-employedrnwomen and local government offices that are directly pursuing economic empowermentrnobjectives. To this end, primary data is obtained through questionnaire survey, in-depthrninterview with local officials, and personal observation with some informal interviews.rnSecondary data are also collected from local offices and other sources.rnThe study's finding shows that the local government's effort in incorporating gender perspectivernin to economic empowerment programmers is quite low, even though a relative improvement isrnexhibited. In particular, the self-employed women in the informal sector are economicallyrndisempowered as they are constrained by limited or poor access to productive assets.rnFurthermore, the local supports available are also the one that reinforce women's traditionalrnengagements that hardly yield a better income to achieve growth and improvement. Besides,rnconstraints including lack of working premise, working capital, credit access, excessive domesticrnresponsibilities are found as some of the prominent factors that erode the earnings of therninformal self-employed women.rnIn general, to truly realize the empowerment of women and the poor women in the informalrnsector, a long way move forward must be made. Accordingly, to see a turnaround, policyrnimplementers need to strictly adhere to existing policy and regulatory frameworks that enhancesrnwomen's wellbeing apart from devising practical and feasible ways of unraveling the constraints of women engaging in activities with diminutive rewards.