Abstract
12Dec 2018 EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-HELP GROUPS (SHGS) IN EMPOWERING RURAL WOMEN IN BATTICALOA DISTRICT OF SRI LANKA. Arunasalam Sureshkumar and Saravanamutthu Jeyarajah. Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, World Vision Lank, Sri Lanka. Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.Lanka.
Highlights
Background of the Study:The self-help group (SHG) is a small group of rural poor, who have voluntarily come forward to form a group for the improvement of the social and economic status of the members
Many scholars Christuraj P and Saraswathy S (2009), Sita Devi K et al, (2011)Thangamani,(2013). confirmed in their studies that SHGs are playing a crucial role to provide microfinance to the rural poor especially women and SHGs impacts positively on their members in terms of empowerment, accessibility to credit, and socioeconomic change etc.The concept of empowerment is defined as the process by which women take control and ownership of their choices
44%of the respondent belong to the age group of [31-40], more than three fourth (33%) is in the age group of more than 41 years and the remaining 13% and in the age group of 18 – 30 and above 50 respectively. it can understand that in the study area the Self Help Groups attract more of the women from the age group of [31-40] when compared to the other age groups
Summary
EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-HELP GROUPS (SHGS) IN EMPOWERING RURAL WOMEN IN BATTICALOA DISTRICT OF SRI LANKA. 1. Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, World Vision Lank, Sri Lanka. 2. Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
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