Performance Evaluation of Posdaya as Family Empowerment Model in Indonesia

Authors

  • Pudji Muljono Bogor Agricultural University

Keywords:

community, empowerment, family, Posdaya

Abstract

The Posdaya model combines and converges the MDGs, the eight functions of the familes, and even the HDI into a single compact and streamlined concept for social development with the family as focus.  The objectives of the study were to evaluate the performance of Posdaya in term of its secretariats, partnerships, education, economics, health, and the environment aspects. The study revealed that the performance variability of Posdaya was 89.09 (medium category), it showed that  such Posdaya is lack of its partnership, economy and environment. Whereas for the growth status of  Posdaya, they were classified  into three classes, namely Pemula, Madya, and Mandiri. Eighty percent (80%) out of the evaluated Posdayas, they fall under Posdaya Madya. Better management of the immediate environment of Posdaya, enabled them to manage better their secretarial, partnership, economic, and health aspects. While for the educational performance,  it was not correlate very much except with the secretarial aspects, which its correlation was quite significant,  at level 0.05.

Author Biography

Pudji Muljono, Bogor Agricultural University

Department of Community Development and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University

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Published

2013-10-14

How to Cite

Muljono, P. (2013). Performance Evaluation of Posdaya as Family Empowerment Model in Indonesia. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 1(4). Retrieved from https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJHSS/article/view/457