Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Micro finance and skill training are integrated to build empowerment model to improve socioeconomic level of women in Nepal. This popular model is widely employed to improve socioeconomic empowerment of women, particularly single women to restore and rehabilitate their life from psychological trauma and vulnerability. Its result is claimed positive. In this context, this paper examines whether the skill training and micro finance improves to empower single women socioeconomically and to reduce poverty and vulnerability and happiness of single women in Nepal through descriptive statistics and the paired “t” test. Its primary data sets are collected from the survey. The “t” test is significant that the skill training and micro finance are effective measures to empower single women socioeconomically and to reduce their vulnerability and then improve their self-reliant and happiness.