English abstract
This study aiming to identify the role of the local communities in improving the lifestyle of the Omani women in terms of objective view, as this includes the improvement on economic, educational and health levels. It also includes the development of self-reliance and social rela study also extended as to identify the prominent difficulties that preclude the local community performance from improving the lifestyle of women and the possible measures to activate their roles. The study also based on some issues of the structural functionalism theory, as the present study is a descriptive one and relies on social survey method with its two types, the comprehensive one which employed for the board of directors of local community, and sampling, which employed for those who benefit from the services of the community. The study applied for Omani Women Associations, charity organizations - at Muscat Governorate which have already played great role in improving the lifestyle of women as general. Therefore, the study included the following communities:(4) Omani women Associa ons, (2) charity organiza ons, the study also applied to (91) bene ciaries and (38) members of Board of Directors and two ques onnaire papers , one copy for the beneficiaries and one for the members of the community board of directors. The study revealed many results that can be summarized as follows: At the objective view: it reveals that the individual of the sample from beneficiaries who with the opinion that, the local community have a growing improvement role at the economical level of Omani women, but unfortunately, it has a decreased role in connection to educational and health levels. In contrary, the officials, says that the local community has an important role in improving the economical level, but its role in boosting the educational and health levels, still below the required level. In connection to self-reliance in improving the women lifestyle, both, the beneficiaries and officials agreed, that the local community has a great role in developing the women self-reliance, whereas at the level of improving social relationships, the beneficiaries with the opinion that the role of the local community in this regard still below the required level, while officials, in favor of that the local community have a great role in developing women social relationships.
The results also revealed that, beneficiaries, with the opinion that, the most factors affecting the role of local community is the weakness of the in kind support and the complexity of rendering the services, but the institutional weakness come to be one of the low-affecting factors on the local community performance, while officials, related factors that affecting the performance of the local community to weakness of in-kind support along with the weakness of the occupational training programs for some members of the Association,
