The term of community empowerment in general can be defined as a process that builds human or community through community capacity building, community behavioral change, and community organizing. Usually community empowerment has been done in the villages, especially in the villages are still undevelopment. Community empowerment emerge due to a condition in community. Socio-economic conditions of community is very low, cause they don’t afford and don’t know. This happens, because they can’t enjoy an adequate education. Incompetence and ignorance of the community resulting in very low productivity.
The ability of the community to be developed. A lot of shortcomings, such as: the ability to strive, the ability to search for information, the ability to manage activities in the agricultural capability, the ability to resolve problems that occur and so on. In according to the needs or problems faced by the community.
The community behavior that needs to change is the behavior that harm the community or inhibits the increase in community welfare. For example: Toxicity defecate in any places, children should help their parents, women were never involved in the development, pregnant women never checked to the doctor, and so on.
The community organizing can be described as a community effort to regulate each others in managing the activities or programs that they can develop. Here the community can form a working committee, did the division of tasks, supervising, make a planning the activities, and so on. Indigenous institutions that already exist should be involved because it is an established institution, increasing its ability to stay alone.
Its happens, because the community have not mastered the technology that could help ease the burden of their work. They are forced to use conventional technology. They have learned for generations with minimal results. At first glance would seem, that they are satisfied with their results, but in fact they are still able to do things better. Then to develop the potential or the ability and attitude of life that includes developing the ability to farm, herding, self-employment, or other skills that are improving the productivity of community.
How to develop abilities and skills of the community ?. The development can be done in various ways, such as: training or include in training communty development capabilities and skills required. You can also invite the communty to visit another place activities with the intention that the communty can see at once learned, these activities are often referred to as a comparative study. You can also provide reading books that works for community needs or specialization. There are still many other forms that can be pursued.
Couse that the attitudes need to change, the attitude of living harmful or inhibit increase welfare. Changing attitudes are not an easy job. Why, because the community have experience for years, even decades already doing is like that. For it requires quite a long time to make a change in attitude. The trick to provide is awareness that they have been done to their detriment. This can be done by providing a lot of information by using a variety of media, such as reading books, invites to look elsewhere, the film set lighting, and so on.
On community organizing, the key is put the community as the culprit. The community need to be invited to start planning activities, implementation, to maintenance and preservation. The community involvement from the outset allows to have the opportunity to learn more. At the beginning of the activities may require a companion as a companion who will give information or explanations even give examples directly. At this stage, more community to learn, but at the later stage assistants must start giving the community an opportunity to try to be able to do themselves. If this is the case, when the escort left the community, they are able to do it alone or independently.
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