The Social Fund for Development and its role in the development of rural women A field study of a sample of rural women in Beni Suef Governorate

The study aims in general to recognize the role of the Social Fund for development in bringing about the changes and directed the intended aim of the development of rural women, and to identify the motives of the development of these women, and obstacles facing the development. This is in addition to the identification of the effects or consequences of the development of rural women in all aspects of social, economic and cultural. .The researcher will depend in this study on the use of social survey method through comprehensive inventory, where it is an inventory of all rural women, women with financial support from the Social Fund for Development. It also will depend on the comparative method will be the comparison between the women beneficiaries of the Social development Fund with other women who are not beneficiaries of the fund. The researcher will depend also acted to form the interview as a key tool for the collection of data required by the study, due to the spread of illiteracy among rural women under study. This is in addition to the adoption of the researcher to use the style of analysis of documents and records, which are getting a lot of data required for the study by analyzing data in the Social development Fund. Study consists of two main sections Including seven main chapters, the first section which represents the theoretical part of the study, consists of three chapters: the first chapter reveals the objectives of the study and its main concepts, the second chapter handles the theoretical frameworks of development, and the third chapter which includes the previous studies that handle the Social Fund for Development. The second section is the plan and results of the field study and contain four chapters, Chapter IV: Plan of the field study and Chapter V is the role of the Social Development Fund in the development of rural women. The sixth chapter is motivated the development of rural women and constraints. Chapter VII is the outcome of the development of rural women and their effects.