Micro-Credit Service Provisions And Urban Women’s Economic Well Being A Case Study Of Makindye Division Kampala District, Uganda

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between microcredit services and economic wellbeing of isoinen in Makindye l)ivision. the study was guided by three objectives: (1) finding out the level of microcredit sen ices. (2) finding out the level of economic

wellbeing and (3) finding out the relationship between microcredit services and economic

wellbeing of women in Makindye Division. The stud> involved quantitative approach

specifically the descriptive correlational study design. [he target population of the stud> was 100

women out of which a sample of 80 women were selected using simple random sampling.

Closed ended questionnaires were used to assess the sariables under study. [he findings of the

study indicated that the lesel of microcredit sen ices among women in Makindye l)ivision is loss

as evidenced by the mean of 2.32. More so the study findings also rebealed that the level of

economic wellbeing among women is also still low as shown by the mean of 2.18. [he study

also found a weak positive relationship between microcredit senices and economic wellbeing

among women in Makindye division as shown by the Pearson correlation coeflicient of 0.329.

1 he study therefore concluded that the level of microcredit sen ices and economic wellbeing is

low. Consequently recommended government to derive policy frameworks that would favor

women to improve their economic wellbeing through credit access and community extension

sen ices.