Abstracts

"TOOLS PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES AND
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN THE AGROINDUSTRY RURAL DEVELOPMENT"

Abstracts

Optimizing local potencies is an important way to sustain agro industrial rural development. In exploring local potencies such as human, natural and social capital is used participatory approach and community empowerment. To understand participatory approach and community empowerment, the aim of participatory, ethics on using participatory approach and developing collaborative are important before using tools of participatory approach and community empowerment. Participatory approach and community empowerment needs Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methods. In applying PRA methods requires several skills such as partnerships, social mapping, promoting stake holder, participatory assessment planning, participatory program management, integrating participatory monitoring and evaluation are necessary.
 

Key words: rural development, participatory approach, community
empowerment, participatory rural appraisal