MODEL OF COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF SELF-RELIANT ACTIVE STANDBY VILLAGE IN ACCOMODATING THE REDUCING PREVALENCY OF STUNTING IN GARUT REGENCY
This study aims to build a model for empowering rural communities to be active and independent within the framework of reducing the prevalence of stunting in Garut Regency, West Java Province. This research uses a combination method (Mixed-Methods) with a concurrent embedded strategy; in this study, the combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches is used together to support the research to be studied. This study uses a Soft System Methodology (SSM) approach. The SSM method is also action research that aims to solve complex problematic situations. To meet the objectives of this study, the SSM analysis consists of (1) CATWOE analysis, (2) Role analysis and (3) Social Systems Analysis. The results of this study are in the form of a model for empowering community to be active and self-reliant, which is the result of the integration of conceptual thinking and the consequences of reality that complement each other in producing the model. This model is a solution to overcome problems in achieving self-reliance, active standby village (in Garut Regency, West Java Province. The recommendation that can be given is that the local government, especially Garut Regency, can run the model as an effort to overcome the problems that have occurred so far in achieving self-reliance of an active standby village.
Community Empowerment, Model, Self-Reliant, Active Standby Village.