Assessing the needs of women headed house hold From social protection programs "Comparative study between the rural community and urban community"

This research is an analytical descriptive one which aims at describing and evaluating the social, economic, educational and health needs of female heads of household in rural and urban areas. This aims at reaching planning indices as tools to achieve the integration of social protection programs that are provided to female heads of household. The current study adopts the social survey approach, with its two types, that includes those in charge of social protection programs in NGOs which reached (81) in urban areas and (72) in rural ones. It also adopts the sample survey for female heads of household who benefit from social protection programs which reached (142) in urban areas and (127) in rural ones. The study depends on two tools in collecting data. The first tool is conducting interviews by social protection programs to evaluate the needs of female heads of household and it was applied on female heads who benefit from social protection programs. The second tool is a questionnaire on the indices of achieving the integration of social protection programs and it was applied on those in charge of NGOs. Moreover, the research adopts the theories of social patterns and alienation as its theoretical approach. One of the most important outcomes reached by the study was that there is a strong and substantial positive relationship that is statistically significant between the evaluation of the needs of the female heads of social protection programs and the educational level in both urban and rural areas (α≤0.01).The study also proved that there is a strong and substantial positive relationship that is statistically significant between the evaluation of the needs of the female heads of the social protection program and the age level in both urban and rural areas (α≤0.01). There are also substantial differences that are statistically significant between the average levels of female heads in rural and urban areas and their evaluation of their needs from social protection programs (α≤ 0.01).