| Rural women could easily borrow from the cooperative institutions to participate in productive activities (Cited in Haile 2004). To solve the problem, women are organized themselves under cooperative institutions, which make them homogenous and for development interventions easy to operationalize. This paper attempts to analyze the responsibility and involvement of cooperatives in empowering the women. In the study, the investigator used simple random sampling technique for selecting the sample. Secondary data and information are collected from the published and unpublished sources like books, journals websites, etc. Percentage analysis, mean, standard deviation chi-square test, probability and 't' test were the statistical techniques used for carrying out the analysis and interpretation of the data collected. |