Small and Micro Enterprises and Their Role in Achieving the Economic Development "Women's Service Projects in Zliten as a Model"

Abstract

This study addressed Small and Micro Enterprises and Their Role in Achieving Economic Development “Women’s Service Projects in Zliten as a Model”. The importance of this study lies in knowing the impact that women’s service projects have in supporting local development by providing job opportunities and creating added value services thus increasing the local output within the city. We used the descriptive approach in this study, in addition to the quantitative analysis by estimating the relationship between the study variables and applying them to the data obtained from their primary sources from the study community using an electronic questionnaire form. Despite the difficulty of accessing and stumbling data on this topic, this study at least shed light on the activities of an effective and important segment of the segments of society within Zliten and was able to identify the role of women in the service sector and to stand on the extent of their contribution in supporting and stimulating the local development process through the great role that the study sample plays in helping their families and carrying part of the life and living burden, where the study found a direct positive relationship between the size of the project capital and the size of the income generated from the project, where the study found that every increase in capital by one dinar will lead to a rise in income by 415 dirhams,  it was found that most projects rely on capital less than 5000 dinars. And that 52% of the projects have workers, which explains the ability of private projects to create job opportunities within the study community, as well as finding a positive relationship between the educational level and the role of workers in helping their families, which gave these projects special importance in achieving comprehensive development, and also found that most small and micro enterprises were projects with a service character and thus contributed to increasing the gross domestic product. Finally, the study recommends the inclusion of cultural material on home economics taught in universities for the great role that women have achieved from this aspect and the need for official bodies and the government to study a mechanism to facilitate the provision of small loans to women who have the desire to establish these projects to help establish their projects in the best way.