Abstract:
The term ‘women empowerment’ is a popular concept in the development discourse. However the empirical
data regarding empowerment is not much available. Therefore, this study has focused on assessing the impact
of women’s empowerment programs which were implemented in the estate sector by the government as well as
by NGOs in Sri Lanka. Basically, the study has focused on two main empowerment programs called
Plantation Development Program (PDP) and Plantation Community Empowerment Project (PCEP) by the
Government and the Care International as well. Most of the development plans do not assess the effect of
empowerment programs that can be implemented within communities. Therefore, the objective of this study
was to examine the ongoing approaches and the strategies related to empowerment of women.
