Impact of Cooperative on Women Empowerment A case study of Sanopalati cooperative, Karthali VDC, Sindhupalchowk
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Department of Rural Development
Abstract
Co-operative is an economic enterprise and as self organization which functions on its
own way and make supportive role in the rural development and economic
development of Nepal. As Nepal is one of the least developed countries in the world,
it is extremely necessary to uplift the status of the country. Co-operative movement is
one of the measures to improve the economic condition. Moreover, the cooperative
organizations of Nepal are working in rural areas to uplift the economic condition of
poor people by accepting their small saving and providing loan at reasonable rate of
interest for investing in productive and skill oriented sector. Present study focused the
impact made by the Sano palati co-operative especially on the rural women. The
specific objectives of the study were to study the socio-economic impact of
cooperative activities to empower women, examine the change in socio-economic
conditions of the rural women.
The research was carried out on the basis of exploratory and descriptive research
design. Source of data collected was the primary and secondary data while the nature
of the data collected was quantitative and qualitative data. Among the total population
about 12% of the samples were selected by using the simple random sampling
method.
The findings of the study showed that Sano palati cooperative focuses on enterprise
support activities, social development activities such as literacy classes and health
care training for the women members. The major concern of members of this
cooperative includes education for themselves and for children, having own income
and savings, improve security, improve access to institutions with resources, freedom
to make own choices and decisions. To strengthen the cooperative both financially
and socially, cooperative should provide training for commercial agriculture farming
system to the member as well as can conduct mutual exchange of experience and
training program. It should also make loan flow and loan recovery system more
effective by regular supervision, monitoring and evaluation.