Role of Mother's Group to Women's Empowerment
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Tribhuvan University Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Central Department of Rural Development Kirtipur, Kathmandu
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The secondary data collected through published and unpublished literature Journals,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
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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