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This study aims to proceed the analysis through qualitative descriptive and further explore the welfare of management and members of cooperatives in a sustainable manner by observing the business strategies and competency of members. This research was conducted at women's cooperatives in Malang district with the method of observation of female cooperative members to explore competencies, strategies that have been implemented as well as the welfare of members. Data mining was carried out by direct interviews and distributing questionnaires to cooperative members. The analysis was carried out with descriptive qualitative, namely frequency analysis to find out the responses of 171 respondents with a questionnaire. The results showed that respondents in this study responded well to welfare indicators. This indicates that someone who joined as a member of a cooperative is more effective in improving their welfare. This increase in welfare was marked by an increase in family income, although the increase was not significant with an increase in prices for necessities. Besides, improving health and education is also better than before becoming a member of the cooperative.

SMEs empowerment in Indonesia faces a lot of obstacles; one of the biggest and most frequent issues is capital. As a matter of fact, reality does not support the previous statement. Education, entrepreneur motivation, business competition, business protection, and empowerment are the issues to be dealt with in the national SMEs empowerment. The purpose of the study was to carry out sustainable development of SMEs through the improvement of the entrepreneurial capacity building where empowerment and change in business strategy become the means. As an addition, the basis for the study was Dajani (2013)’s article about the entrepreneurial empowerment of female migrant workers in the Middle East. The recommendation was to explore the overall impact of entrepreneurship towards public economic growth in detail. The method of analysis was descriptive quantitative and statistical analysis to support the result of the descriptive analysis. Thus, the analysis method used was an analysis of frequency towards 110 respondents of a questionnaire distributed in Malang. The findings showed that a lot of SMEs need some sort of business protection more particularly in the form of association. The result of the quantitative analysis revealed that empowerment towards SMEs of which goal was to increase business capacity had yet shown significant outcome; business strategy became the emphasis to improve business capacity. Therefore, a sustainable business strategy for SMEs in the form of improving entrepreneurial capacity is needed so that their business will last.