NGO roles in economic empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh

Abstract

The ninth most populous country and the most densely populated of the world’s larger states. The position of Bangladesh is 25th among the 39th poorest countries. In Bangladesh, most of the people live in the rural areas. Mostly they are poor and cannot fulfill their basic needs. The poor people are affected in malnutrition, illiteracy, helpless and not empowered etc. There have been applied different development models through Government and Non-Government Organizations to alleviate poverty. They have great influence on the life rural woman. Their goal of development is to increase the well being and quality of life of the rural woman through growth of social vertices. Women are nearly half of the population. They represent a half of the countries human resources and thus a half of its potential. It provides micro credit to the poor woman, because they are helpless. By taking micro credit they reduce their poverty and try to change their life. It emphasizes the empowerment of rural women who are the half of the total population of Bangladesh. Empowerment can be defined as the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them. Hence our women are very much deprived of different kinds of opportunity for the over of decades. Still it is continuing. Therefore NGO stands by them to empower in the entire life of women. In addition, there is a real change that has been done by such NGOs which are working in the study area. Women have developed and removed their sorrowful life over two decades by involving with NGO.