Empowerment Of Groups Research Articles

Pemberdayaan Kelompok Tani Hutan (KTH) Ngudi Waluyo Menuju Industri Kreatif Ternak Lanceng

The purpose of this activity is to determine the success of the forest farmer group empowerment program in managing lancet bee cattle into an education-based creative industry. The method of implementing this activity is carried out through stages, including: identifying problems, describing the target community, making plans for forms of intervention and carrying out work programs. In this activity, it is not possible to assess the success of the program, considering that the activities carried out are still limited to socializing the work program to the target group, mapping the area, making green houses for nurseries, making artificial vegetation and conducting educational trials of lancet bee tourism

Community Empowerment in Implementing the Policy of Kelurahan Fund Allocation in Kelurahan Agung, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency

The purpose of this study is to find out how to empower the community in Tabalong Regency and to find out what factors are the success of community empowerment in implementing the Village Fund allocation policy in Agung Village, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive type of research. Data collection techniques used through interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis used qualitative data analysis techniques, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusions. The results showed that community empowerment in implementing the village fund allocation policy in Agung Village, Tanjung District, Tabalong Regency had been going well but not yet fully successful. It is still found factors that affect community empowerment, several factors that affect the implementation of community empowerment with the allocation of village funds in the Agung sub-district, Tabalong Regency, such as the identification of the social system of the village apparatus for the village community is still not optimal and there has been no follow-up from the village government on the empowerment group that has been implemented. successful in directing and developing the results of empowerment group products.

Empowerment of Farmer Groups in Rambahan Village in Processing Palm Oil Mill Waste into Organic Fertilizers for Porang (Amorphophallus muelleri) Plantation

Porang (Amorphophallus muelleri), also known as Iles-Iles or Suweg. In its cultivation, porang has a shade tolerance of 60 percent. But without using shade, it can still be cultivated. Farmers in Jambi usually planted porang among old rubber plants without fertilizing. This causes porang tuber production to be at a minimum below its potential. Porang is only produced without treatment, reducing the size of the tubers, and the konjac glucomannan content in tubers is low. Porang tubers are usually made into chips, and chips will crumble easily if the konjac glucomannan is low. Based on this, counseling and mentoring activities will focus on making fertilizer from the waste from palm oil mills. Palm oil mill waste that is most easily transported and easily decomposed is the cake decanter (DC). In the village of Rambahan, it is known as a solid decanter. The village community had heard but did not know that this waste with specific treatments could be used as organic fertilizer. That this waste, with particular treatments, can be used as organic fertilizer. The treatment is by fermentation with local microorganisms (LOM) from cow urine mixed with MOL from snails (RINMAS). Keongmas are pests and are widely found in farmers' fields. Beef and conch urine are used as LOM. After they are made, the two LOMs are mixed with a ratio of 1: 1 and used as a decomposer to ferment the decanter cake plus for two months. After two months, it can be used as organic fertilizer for porang plants. LOM cow urine and LOM snail (RINMAS) are also used as foliar fertilizers. The technology application activities will be carried out in Rambahan Village at the Mekar Kembali KT and KWT Pokja Alamanda. The target for KT Mekar Kembali and KWT Pokja Alamanda is to increase the area of porang plants, which previously were only intercrops, now every KT, there is an increase in the area of porang plants every KT of 0.5 hectares. Once, farmers and KWT did not know how to make solid and liquid fertilizers. After counseling and DEMPLOT, they could make their fertilizers. Every two months, the farmers produce 100 kg of solid fertilizer decanter cake, urine MOL, and Keongmas MOL as 100 liters of liquid fertilizer per month.

Social Work in Social Farming in the Concept of Empowerment

Abstract This article aims to present social farming from the perspective of social work; it, therefore, explores the added value of agriculture. More specifically, it adapts the concept of empowerment to the conditions of working with participants with disabilities on social farms. In general, the concept of empowerment is described as the acquisition and use of skills to meet one's own needs and gain control over one's own life. Further, the empowerment of groups and communities is understood as gaining rights and straightening the system. It is a systematic method of work used with people with health or social disadvantage, fragile groups and communities. Using participant observation protocols from the stays on different social farms gathered within the project led in four European countries, the form, benefits, and limits of the concept of empowerment are investigated in this alternative agricultural environment. The paper summarises that the process of empowerment on social farms takes several forms at the individual level. Still, when it comes to the acquisition of power by a group or community in conjunction with participation, the use of the concept is limited.

Community Empowerment Program Based on Green Economy in Preserving Herbs as Local Wisdom

Rural communities have ways to maintain the health of their families, and the community environment by processing plants and herbal products during the Corona Virus Disease-2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. The study aims to design a community empowerment program base on the green economy in preserving herbs as local wisdom. The study used Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) is relevant to the design of empowerment by collecting data through interview dialogue, observation, documentation, and focus group discussions. Research informants were determined through purposive sampling, namely stakeholders in the government of Tegal Regency, Central Java Province in Indonesia, such as the head of the health department and regional technical implementing unit for the Herbal Medicine Tourism (HMT) area in Kalibakung, the Headman of the Kalibakung Village, herbal practitioners, and empowerment groups. Participatory research analysis was used to identify, and categorize problems, prepare action plans, evaluate the entire process, and implement actions. The results of the study showed: (1) The community around the HMT area has not been empowered to cultivate plants and herbal products, so mutually beneficial partnerships have not been established. (2) HMT area in Kalibakung and the surrounding community land have the potential for cultivating herbal plants that can realize health independence for families, and communities, so there need to be empowerment programs. (3) The empowerment programs for the cultivation of plants and herbal products could be started by increasing the motivation and inspiration for the benefits of herbs, knowledge, understanding, and skills of products, and the cultivation of herbal plants in a sustainable manner.

PEMBERDAYAAN EKONOMI UMMAT BERBASIS ZAKAT

Empowerment, conceptually is empowerment derived from the word 'power' (power or empowerment). In this context, empowerment is a process and purpose. Empowerment process is a series of activities to strengthen the power or empowerment of weaker groups in society, including individuals who experience poverty problem. For the purpose of empowerment refers to circumstances or results to be achieved by a social change, ie an empowered community, have power or have the knowledge and ability in meeting the needs of economic life is both physical, and social. While the meaning of charity in the context of jurisprudence is the amount of certain assets that are required of God handed to the person entitled. From the definition above, the economic empowerment of community-based charity is a process or series of activities to raise the economic potential of community both in personal life (syakhsîah), family (usroh), community (umma) and even state and nation to create an empowered community economy, based on the values ​​of zakat.

Transactional Leadership Style and Market Share of Selected SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the growth of national economy, driving economic development, and are widely recognized as the primary source of employment, poverty reduction, lifestyle improvement, and empowerment of low-income groups. However, notwithstanding their seeming importance, SMEs are plagued with myriads of challenges such as inadequate, inefficient, and at times non-functional infrastructure, which has led to poor market share. This study, therefore, investigated the effect of transactional leadership on market share of selected Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design. The population of the study was 8,395 which is the total number of registered SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. A sample size of 477 supervisors and middle level managers of SMEs were enumerated using Cochran’s (1977) formula. The study adopted stratified sampling technique. A structured, adapted and validated questionnaire was used to collect primary data from the respondents. Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient for all the constructs is greater than 0.7. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential tools. Linear Regression Analysis was used to determine the effect of the variables using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25. The finding revealed that transactional leadership had a significant effect on market share (β = 0.599, t = 13.456, R2 = 0.287, p<0.05). The study concludes that there was a statistically significant effect of transactional leadership on market share of selected SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria. Transactional leadership style is considered an important factor to SMEs survival and market share sustainability. It focuses on maintaining the status quo to increase company revenue and overall market share. Thus, SMEs owner/managers are encouraged to adopt the transactional leadership style, in order to achieve greater and sustainable market share. Keywords: Leadership style, Transactional Leadership, Market Share, Organizational performance, Small and Medium Enterprises.

Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups Through Housing Schemes in Karnataka: Empirical Study

Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups Through Housing Schemes in Karnataka: Empirical Study

Assistance in making corn silk juice for the Family Welfare Empowerment Group in Giripurno Village

Giripurno Village is one of the villages that has the largest corn agricultural commodity in Batu City. The abundance of corn harvests makes prices unstable. In addition, most farmers sell their corn harvest in the form of corn kernels, so it is not optimal in processing corn cobs, husks, and silk. Most of the people belong to the low economy. The community service program aims to provide ideas through assistance to the Family Welfare Empowerment Group (PKK) to process corn silk waste into drinks that have economic potential for the community. The assistance method used is in the form of training in making drinks, packaging, and selling. The evaluation was carried out to determine the improvement of skills in making corn silk juice drinks. This assistance program was attended by 15 participants. The results of the assistance showed that PKK women had understood how to process corn silk. This is evidenced by the fact that sales have reached 468 products sold in several cities, especially East Java. Hence, it is concluded that the assistance of this corn silk drink, can improve the welfare of the local community.

Mpowerment Of Cadres Influence On Knowledge And Attitude Of Mothers In Breasting In Bengkulu City

WHO has established 7 contacts with lactation counselors or lactation clinics from pregnant women to babies born and breastfeeding. With enough information about breastfeeding and breastfeeding, mothers and families are expected to be ready to undergo the process of breastfeeding later. The Cadre Empowerment Program is a community empowerment program by conducting mentoring activities to increase knowledge and understanding of family planning through counseling, guidance and counseling so that postpartum mothers can carry out her nature in providing nutrition to their children. 
 This research is a quantitative study, using quasi-experimental research designs with a pre-post control group. The sample of this study was 36 respondents, namely 18 people in the cadre empowerment group (intervention) and 18 people without cadre empowerment (control). The research instrument used a questionnaire of knowledge and attitudes about breastfeeding. Bivariate statistical tests use the Wilcoxon Test.
 The results showed that in the intervention group it was known that the majority (83.3%) were aged 20-35 years, the majority (66.7%) with secondary education (high school) and the majority (72.2%) were multiparous. There is a significant influence between the Empowerment of Cadres to the Knowledge and Attitudes of Mothers in Giving ASI in the City of Bengkulu with p = 0.002
 Collaboration of MCH health personnel and Health Cadres in improving the attainment of knowledge and attitudes of mothers in breastfeeding in Bengkulu City can be through empowering health cadres.
 Keywords: Empowerment of Cadres, Knowledge and Attitudes, ASI

“I’m Actually a Female Empowerer”: Student Perspectives on a Critical Pedagogical Approach to Re/Engage At-Risk Females in School

Internationally, there is increasing concern regarding the disengagement of marginalized students, particularly girls, from the formal education system, particularly since Covid-19. Students experiencing oppression/marginalization within urban education systems are considered at-risk from poor attendance, early school leaving, underperformance, low self-confidence, and social exclusion. In considering Paolo Freire’s conceptualization of education as “the practice of freedom,” this paper presents findings from an intervention, the Female Empowerment Group, a critical pedagogical approach to re/engaging at-risk female students in school. The Female Empowerment Group created a space for at-risk female students to explore complex contemporary issues shaping the intersectionality of their identities as marginalized, feminized, and politicized citizens in/outside school. Drawing on findings from a mixed methods design (quantitative surveys ( n = 21 girls), qualitative interviews ( n = 9 students, 7 teachers, 2 parents), Ketso ( n = 9 students), this study presents the power of critical pedagogy for empowering and re/engaging at-risk students in school. Findings illustrate the powerful impact of a critical pedagogical approach for empowering students, enhancing self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and engagement with issues impacting their lives. Reported outcomes included more positive relationships with adults/peers, increased re/engagement in class and enhanced sense of belonging in school.

PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING SCHOOL DROP OUT AMONG MASAI BOYS IN MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES

Education is a significant tool for empowering people socially and economically. It is capable of improving the livelihoods of people around the world. A high rate of school dropouts therefore has the capacity to reduces the pool and diversity of qualified workforce that contributes to national. Building. A study was therefore conducted on psychosocial factors that influence boys dropout rates among primary school boys in Illodokilani Zone of Kajiado County, Kenya. This paper is a presents the findings of school dropout rates among boys in selected primary schools within Illodokilani Zone of Kajiado County, the psychosocial factors that influence boys dropout in the selected primary schools and the relationship between the psychosocial factors and the drop-out rates among boys in the selected schools. A sample of 354 was employed, it comprised 90 class seven boys, 60 drop out boys 54 teachers and 150 guardians. The participants were obtained by through random sampling, snowballing and purposive sampling in case of drop-out boys and their parents. Mixed research design, interviews, questionnaires and focus group discussion were used to gather data while descriptive methods and inferential statistics were used for analysis. Class 7 recorded the highest rate of dropout (30.8) and psychosocial factors explained 80.8% of boys drop out from school. Schools should provide psychosocial support services. Boys peer group empowerment and Adult Education is needed for parents.

Ethno-religious Minorities in Bangladesh: A Historical Analysis

Bangladesh is historically a multi-ethnic, multi religious, multilingual, and pluralistic society, including Hindu, Buddhist, Sheik, Animist, and Atheist communities. After the Liberation War, it endeavoured to sustain religious, social, as well as political harmony among the people of multi religious beliefs. Using a qualitative descriptive historical approach, this study investigates the empowerment of the ethno-religious groups in Bangladesh. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part presents an overview of the current condition of ethno-religious minorities in Bangladesh, and the second explores why the ethno-religious minorities are facing multiple forms of discrimination in Bangladesh.

Empowerment of PKK Wanagiri Group Through the Application of Natural Preservative Aloe-coating on Strawberries

Postharvest handling of strawberries is an effort to prevent damage, maintain quality and extend shelf life. The application of the edible coating is a step that can be taken in the postharvest handling of strawberries. The number of harmful preservatives on the market is a cause for concern. Aloe vera gel is a natural ingredient that can be used as an edible coating for strawberries. Empowerment of community groups in the application of natural preservative Aloe-coating on strawberries can overcome the problems that exist in the community. One of the groups in the villages that has this problem is the Empowering Family Welfare Group PKK Wanagiri, which is located in Sukasada District, Buleleng Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia. Partners do not know post-harvest handling, entrepreneurship, and marketing. The solutions to solve the problems are: providing knowledge about post-harvest handling, packaging, entrepreneurship, and marketing. Appropriate technology on how to make Aloe-coating and methods of its application to strawberries are provided and quality can be maintained. The method used is active community participation and exploratory. The result is community service activities have been running smoothly. The PKK Wanagiri, get the added value and their standard of living has increased. Post-harvest handling of strawberries can be applied. Knowledge of Aloe-coating produce, method of application, packaging, hygiene sanitation, entrepreneurship, and appropriate product marketing was understood and applied. This activity is carried out continuously and the group can independently make aloe vera coating, and apply it to strawberries, thereby increasing income.

PEMBERDAYAAN KELOMPOK NELAYAN MELALUI PROGRAM SENTRA KELAUTAN DAN PERIKANAN TERPADU DI DESA DALUM KECAMATAN SALIBABU KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN TALAUD

Dalum Village is one of the villages in the Talaud Islands Regency with its residents mostly living as fishermen, however, fishermen in Dalum Village are fishermen who are not fully empowered or have not been developed even though the government through the Fisheries Service of the Talaud Islands Regency has empowered fishermen groups in Dalum Village through the Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Program. This study aims to describe and analyze the empowerment of fishermen groups through the Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Program, inhibiting factors and supporting factors for the implementation of empowerment and efforts made in overcoming inhibiting factors. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative with an inductive approach. Data collection techniques are carried out through interviews, observations and documentation. Data analysis techniques are carried out by data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results showed that the Empowerment of Fishermen Groups through the Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Program in Dalum Village, Salibabu District, Talaud Islands Regency, Fishermen Group Study at the Teluk Lawasan Indah Cooperative conducted by the Fisheries Service of the Talaud Islands Regency was carried out with four indicators, namely human development, business development, environmental development and institutional development. Through these four indicators, the empowerment process has been running, but there are still many shortcomings that are obstacles in the implementation of empowerment such as: the low level of education of fishermen groups related to the technology used, the facilities and infrastructure used by fishermen groups are still simple, the dependence of fishermen groups on assistance provided by the government, and the lack of sufficient availability of electricity in the Island Regency area Talaud. 
 Keywords: Fishing Group, Empowerment, Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Program

PEMBERDAYAAN KELOMPOK NELAYAN MELALUI PROGRAM SENTRA KELAUTAN DAN PERIKANAN TERPADU (SKPT) DI KABUPATEN MALUKU BARAT DAYA

Indonesia's fisheries potential has an essential and strategic role for the national development since it influences economic, security, ecological and social aspects. With this important role, it is assumed that the living standard of Indonesia’s fishermen improved. However, based on the data from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs (2018), most Indonesia’s fishermen still live within the poverty line. This current study aims at describing the implementation of fishermen group empowerment through integrated marine and fisheries center program in Maluku Barat Daya District. The data of this study are gathered through direct observation, in-depth interview and documentation study. Then they are analyzed based on Empowerment theory by Mardikanto and Soebiato (2017). The study’s result show that the empowerment emerged in three aspects namely human, business, and institutional development. It is also found that the empowerment process is still not optimal due to several obstacles namely lack of awareness of fishermen group, characteristics of the archipelago, and inadequate communication network. To overcome these, the Fishery Department has made efforts such as giving training, distributing fishing gears, and establishing certain fishermen groups. Suggestions given by the authors are giving self-awareness and work ethics socialization, cooperating with the heads of village, and issuing local government regulation regarding fishery.
 
 Keywords: Empowerment, Fishermen Group, Integrated Marine and Fisheries Center Program

The Participation Model of Kampung KB in Prevention of COVID-19 in Banyumas Regency, Indonesia

Family Panning Village, known as “Kampung KB”, is a social institution at the Neighborhood Council level in villages formed by the Government in 2017. The purpose of this institution is to improve the quality of families living in those areas, including the health aspect. The managers were social workers in those areas. This research aims to investigate the participation of this institution in preventing the COVID-19 pandemic in Banyumas Regency, which cases are pretty high. The research informants included 82 participants from family planning village core administrators in 8 villages and one subdistrict in 4 districts of Banyumas Regency, Indonesia. The data were collected using online interviews through WhatsApp groups belonging to informants in each village/subdistrict, followed by in-depth interviews conducted in those groups. The qualitative data were then analyzed using an interactive model. Results of this study show that some villagers in three family planning villages identified with positive COVID-19, yet not all village core administrators knew about those cases. Most family planning villages had no special preventive programs. However, in those family planning villages and the surrounding areas with some villagers identified with positive COVID-19, the core village administrators will perform some preventive efforts more intensively in the forms of news socialization related to COVID-19 through Whatsapp groups of family welfare empowerment, neighborhood association, and neighborhood council groups. In addition, some family planning village core administrators organized the local villagers to help one elderly whose child was intensively treated at a hospital because of identified with positive COVID-19. It shows that the family planning villages may be optimized to improve the local family conditions and strengthen social solidarity.

Pembuatan Teh Antioksidan dari Beberapa Tanaman Pekarangan pada Kelompok Pemberdayaan Kesejahteraan Keluarga Komplek Permata Hijau Banjarbaru Kalimantan Selatan

The Permata Hijau Banjarbaru Family Welfare Empowerment Group is an activity partner who carries out various activities in their daily life. Consuming foods that contain high antioxidants is very important in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of natural materials found around our environment is asolution for improving the health of the community, one of which is plants that have antioxidant capacity. Partners do not have the knowledge and technology about antioxidant plants and their proper and targeted utilization methods. The purpose of the service was to train PKK members in making antioxidanttea by utilizing yard plant materials. The solutions offered in answering partner problems were through 4 stages, namely: preparation stage, science and technology transfer stage in the form of discussion, demonstration stage, and evaluation stage. 83.33% of PKK members who became the target audience understood the socialization material about antioxidant tea made from yard plants. A total of 10 people understood the socialization material from the initial target of 4 people. Capability of tea-making skills, serving dosage and packaging were obtained by 8 people who mastered the skills well. Overall service activities were categorized as successful in transferring knowledge and technology to the target audience. The use of yard plants as ingredients for making antioxidant tea was well received by partnersKey words: antioxidant, yard, plant, tea

Life Skills Education Through Non-Formal Education For People With Physical Disabilities

This study aims to identify and identify life skills education through non-formal education for persons with physical disabilities. Individuals who have physical limitations are called persons with physical disabilities. In the social environment, society tends to give negative stigma to people with physical disabilities and other problems that are in the spotlight are the low participation and provision of job opportunities for people with disabilities in obtaining work. This study used qualitative research methods. This research is sourced from secondary data obtained from documents, journals related and in line with physical disabilities and life skills education for physical disabilities. The result of this literature review is that empowerment of disabled groups must be carried out to increase participation in various fields of social life with adequate and relevant work skills. Skill enhancement is provided to gain accessibility for persons with disabilities, one of which is through non-formal education programs, namely life skills education. Vocational rehabilitation as a form of life skills education through non-formal education is carried out by providing services in the form of skills training activities that aim to cultivate, develop and increase the potential possessed by persons with disabilities, especially persons with physical disabilities.

Empowerment of Organic Fertilizer Farmer Groups in Developing Green House-Based Organic Vegetables

Organic vegetables produced by the women farmers group and organic fertilizers produced by the youth groups are not yet productive. The purpose of this community service activity is to empower the women farmers groups and the youth group in the village of Manggihan, Getasan District, Semarang Regency so that they can improve the quality of organic vegetable and organic fertilizers products. This community service is carried out by using ABCD approach, which is an approach to understanding and internalizing assets, potential, strength, and utilization independently and optimally. The results of this community service activity concluded that the entrepreneurial mindset of organic vegetable and organic fertilizer farmer groups was more creative and innovative in processing Green House-based organic vegetables, skilled in bookkeeping, online marketing, and making Intellectual Property Rights to increase awareness of healthy living, increase profits, business, and welfare of rural communities