Microfinance Programs And The Empowerment Of Women In Kenya Case Study Of Wide Ridge Visions Development Programme

The research on the microfinance programs and empowerment of women provides a collection of statistical anecdote, market briefs, and concise summaries Of the researchers' findings. The rep01i offers a bird's eye view of the microfinance programs, and the changing trends dotting its landscape of women empowerment. The report starts by bringing the background of the study. Here, the researcher highlighted the reasons to why he decided to ca1Ty out the analysis and the empirical gap that was pointed out from the previous works. Chapter one which is the introduction pati also explain the research with the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, scope, questions and the significance of the study. To make the users of the report understands better the work, the repoti in this chapter end s with the conceptual framework which shows the variables in the study both dependent and independent variables and the intervening variables that came in between. In chapter two, the literature review was based on the existing literature written by different mthors about microfinance programs and empowerment of women in the society. It is reviewed ,long the major themes of the topic considering major microfinance programs and how they :elate to the empowerment of women. fhe chapter three shows the research design, sampling procedures which included simple ·andom and, stratified sampling, sample size, method of data collection which include interviews md questionnaires, research procedures and the method of data analysis. ['he chapters four present the analysis of the findings from the questionnaire and the interviews :onducted. The research findings were based on the data collected from the population sample ize selected from the top management, middle men, and operatives in each of the microfinance ,rograms. This was done in order to have a wider understanding of the issues relates to the mpowerment of women This gave an understanding of the challenges that are facing the 1icrofinance programs, both undisputed and those not even thought ofby the players.