Empowering Rural Women with Socio-Economic Skills for Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development

Abstract

Poverty is deadly and should be handled with almost seriousness. This is what the rural women go through from this research. The rural women who are the target of this paper suffer a lot of socio-economic and political setback as a result of poverty. Poverty is seen as when an individual or a household is unable to meet what is considered as minimum requirement to sustain livelihood in a given society. Sustainable development which is a panacea for poverty alleviation is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their needs. Poverty alleviation programme is a task that must rigorously pursued in order to make the rural women live a better life. This call for socio-economic skill, such as functional literacy, entrepreneur training etc. of bringing the rural women out of this condition are recommended, such as elimination of discrimination against rural women, ensure equal right of rural women to own land and inherit property. Finally conclusion to drawn thus, the rural women make serous and reasonable contributions to the economy of the nation and so every effort to liberate them from the scourge of poverty is a welcome idea. Keywords: Women Empowerment: Rural Poverty: Socio-Economic Skills: National Development: Sustainable Development.