WOMEN THE RESILIENT CHANGE MAKERS POST-TSUNAMI -MICROENTERPRISES & ROLE OF NGO'S IN WOMEN EMPOWEMENT

Empowerment of women, also called gender empowerment, has become a significant topic of discussion in regards to development and economics. Entire nations, businesses, communities, and groups can benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of women empowerment. There are obstacles to women's entrepreneurship type of education, lack of role models in entrepreneurship, gendering of entrepreneurship, weak social status, competing demands on time and access to finance. Increase the ability of women to participate in the labour force by ensuring the availability of affordable child care and equal treatment in the work place. More generally, improving the position of women in society and promoting entrepreneurship generally will have benefits in terms of women's entrepreneurship. Listen to the voice of women entrepreneurs. Incorporate a women's entrepreneurial dimension in the formation of all SME-related policies. This can be done by ensuring that the impact on women's entrepreneurship is taken into account at the design stage and promoting women entrepreneur networks. Women's entrepreneurship depends on both the situation of women in society and the role of entrepreneurship in that same society. The quantitative and qualitative aspects of women's entrepreneurship are dependent on both demand and supply side factors (the availability of suitable individuals to occupy entrepreneurial roles.