Evaluasi Pengelolaan Dana Desa dalam Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa (Studi Deskriptif Desa Limo Biang Kecamatan Pulau-Pulau Batu Utara Kabupaten Nias Selatan)

Abstract

One of the Central Government’s development strategies to increase the welfare is by allocating village funds to all villages in Indonesia. Village funds are use for priority activities for the development and empowerment of village communities. The purpose of development is to describe the effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, leveling, responsiveness, and accuracy of village fund management in empowering rural communities and supporting factors and inhibiting the management of village funds. This research was conducted in limo village of Batu district north of South Nias district by conducting interviews and observation to get data and information about village fund management. The result of interviews and data obtained from the study location interpreted. The result of this study indicate that processing of village funds are not transparent in the village government and participation less active community. Due to the lack of effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, leveling, responsiveness and accuracy in the management of village funds. Village fund is used for physical building while community empowerment is not implemented form of empowerment activity done more to physical empowerment that is development of wall of village yard, construction of land detention, and construction of livestock enclosure while non physical development that is training of village apparatus and activity done at group prosperity family (PKK). But it has not been done for two years. The result of this study also explains that the factors supporting the managing of village funds in the empowerment of Limo Biang village is the support of policy/regulation, socialization, facilities and infrastructure. The inhibiting factors were lack of human resources and lack of villagers’ participation.