Family Empowerment Program as Community Education in Supporting the Prevention of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Adhi Iman Sulaiman,Ahmad Sabiq,Toto Sugito

doi:10.30560/ier.v3n3p22

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https://doi.org/10.30560/ier.v3n3p22

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The Family Empowerment Post (Posdaya) has been running as a model for implementing community development, especially in rural areas in the fields of education, health and economy. However, mostly it still provides the minimum service standard and has not been able to reach the maximum standard in terms of transfer of knowledge and skills to the community. Therefore, the aim of this research is to design an empowerment program for public education including supporting the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative case study method, informants were selected purposively from the village government, Posdaya administrators, community leaders and entrepreneurial groups. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, discussion and documentation. Triangulation is used as verification of the data that has been collected. The findings show that a responsive, productive and innovative empowerment program in the form of informal and vocational learning is really necessary as a medium to increase motivation, knowledge, and entrepreneurial skill of communities based on local resources to maintain the welfare and the health of families and villagers especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Participatory development provides space for various parties to be involved in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities
Qualitative research is more flexible in its implementation and can construct reality with the same object, in this case Posdaya in different locations with their respective uniqueness and attractiveness
(3) Formulating and determining the themes, cases and focus of research which are very important for the development of science and a foundation for further research on the Posdaya development program as community education in supporting the prevention of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Participatory development provides space for various parties to be involved in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities. The community can play an active, creative and productive role without waiting for the government and other parties to provide development programs This is the manifestation of participatory empowerment concepts that involves all parties, provides motivation, knowledge, experience, skills and access to partnerships, either by parties outside the community or by the community itself so that they can develop themselves and others, especially in the social and economic fields whose ultimate goal is to improve welfare and create independence in the village community (White & Patel, 2004), (Sulistiyani, 2004), (Adisasmita, 2006), (Syahyuti, 2006), (Ife & Tesoriero 2008), (Huraerah, 2011), (Mardikanto & Soebianto, 2012), (Faizal, 2015), (Sulaiman et al, 2019). It has 3 main pillars that can accommodate and manage real community needs in the health, education and economic sectors

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