Role of Mother's Group to Women's Empowerment

Abstract

Mothers Group one of the basic Group of women empowerment. However, it established as a right because of its expensiveness and other socio-economic reasons. The specific objectives of the study are to analyze Mother's Group pattern of rural women to find out the cause affecting for less participation of women in local governance. Gelu VDC of Ramechhap district has been taken as the study area. Women are the main inhabitants of the VDC. There are many others group but special women is only Mothers Group which was formation by the project of RHDP in this area. Till now, there is no further plan of VDC for women empowerment. So Mother's Group has been faced many problem and threaten. They are active groups of VDC and actively participation in decision mking. In the research area, mothers group has been functioning for women's empowerment and social development. For the empowerment of women, mothers group has managed many skill development programs, income generating programs, literacy programs etc. which helped them to make independent. In case of economic development of participant women's, MG has managed and provided loan for income generating activities that has helped them (to) make economically independent. Result of their training and economic growth has made them empowered. They have become capable of decision-making, Self-dependent, participation in social, political and development programs. After getting involved in mothers Group, they have made them socialize in present society, technology that has helped them solving their problem the awareness creation of women has helped them and their family for household decisions making, social welfare, self opinion. From different result, involvement in mothers group has made them empowered in society. Nature of the study is exploratory, descriptive and analytical. Both primary and secondary data were utilized for this study, primary data has been collected through field survey, interview schedule. Key informant interviews for selected MG members, non-members female and male. The secondary data collected through published and unpublished literature Journals, NGOs/INGOs reports, web-sites, research report and other relevant literatures. The primary data helped to collect general information and secondary data helped to understand the subject matter 7 historically. Both the quantitative and qualitative techniques were used for the data collection. quantitative information were gathered through field survey and qualitative information were collected through personal interview