The Role of Facilitators in Community Empowerment Based on Learning Community to Improve Vocational Skills

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the role of facilitators in community-based learning community empowerment to improve vocational skills in Wagir District, Malang Regency. The results have been found that the role of the facilitator in empowering farmer groups is the main target in mentoring and learning activities to improve vocational skills in meeting the needs and welfare of the community, as well as having competence in planning and determining a quality life. This assistance has a very decisive role for the success of the community empowerment program by paying attention to the importance of public or community participation, this is in accordance with the principle of empowerment. For companions, they view the community as an active system and have potential. So that assistance is an effort to provide convenience and can solve problems faced by the community and this is a strategy that will determine community empowerment programs. Community empowerment essentially awakens the potential that exists within individuals or groups by providing encouragement, providing awareness of the potential possessed by that person or group with the aim of empowering leading to a state of achievement or what it wants to produce towards community change that is efficient and has the ability to change and improve. socioeconomic life of the people.