Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: November | Volume: 7 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 258-266
The Implementation of Prodamas to Increase the People’ Prosperity
Mochamad Muchson
Postgraduate Program, Nusantara PGRI University, Kediri, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Mochamad Muchson
ABSTRACT
Prodamas is a People Empowerment Program done by Kediri Governance from 2015 up to now (2019) with the fund allocation for each neighborhood is RP. 50.000.000 per year covers public infrastructure, economy and culture. For 2019, Prodamas Plus Model in developed with additional program on health, education and youth with Rp.100.000.000 as fund allocation per year for each neighborhood. The aim of this research is to find the program implementation in the level of neighborhood, to see the achievement of program in increasing the citizens’ prosperity. The approach of this research is qualitative with descriptive design and the data collecting method is questionnaire. The research sample is selected randomly form the citizens in neighborhood in Kediri city. The data analysis technique used qualitative analysis focusing on category analysis. The research found: 1) the Prodamas under the public utilities scope like water-channel, water absorption, paving, etc. 2) the Prodamas under economy empowering like sewing workshop, cooking, compressor, the saving and loan cooperative, etc. 3) the Prodamas program under the culture scope like garbage cart, flag pole, sound system device, funeral equipment, etc. The suggestion from citizens is Prodamas should increase more the citizens’ involvement, the transparent and accountable fund management, and more emphasize on the entrepreneurship. The discussion on the findings: 1) Prodamas has been conducted well with the completeness of the proposal documents in neighborhood level like public utilities, economy, culture, and the additional program on health, education and youth, 2) The program has been conducted well on the public utilities, economy, culture, and the additional program on health, education and youth, 3) Prodamas has been fit with the essence of the citizens empowering program, 4) Prodamas has been fit with the citizens empowering program principle, 5) Prodamas has been fit with the aim of citizens empowering program except economy program (workshop) because the program didn’t continue to business, 6) a clear measurement on the success of the program, the measurement is not only on the input-process-output but also the outcome that is the follow up and the effect on the citizens’ prosperity and citizens’ empowering.
Keywords: Empowerment, Prosperity, Empowering.
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