Evaluating the basic training needs of rural women in osun state south west Nigeria with reference to the millennium development goals

Abstract

The study was designed to evaluate the basic training needs of rural women in Osun State in relation with millennium Development Goals. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Three research questions were raised to answer the research questions, while three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The entire population of 320 which comprised 300 trainees and 20 trainers were used for the study. Data were collected for the study through the administration of validated questionnaire on the respondents. The test re-test method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument which stood at 0.92 and 0.95 was established using Pearson product moment correlation (r). The mean statistics and standard deviations were used to answer the research questions while z-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses. The result obtained from the analysis showed that vocational training provided to the rural women in Osun state are not effective for  self reliance, problems militating against the training centres affects the provision of requisite training for the empowerment of rural women, and that government commitment to vocational training affect the empowerment of the rural women in the state. The conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made towards developing self sustaining enterprises that can create empowerment for the rural women in the state and these include: delivery of effective vocational training programme, government plan to be made in future on VTE should factor the problems of implementation, necessary leadership, financial and other logistical support among others.