COMMUNITY CAPACITY EVALUATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CAPABILITY APPROACH Case Study: Rural Infrastructure Project, Pandeglang Regency, Indonesia

• Main Author: Hidayat, Ryan
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/45446
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The shift of development paradigm from top down to bottom up approach since 1950?s, has generated the approach in development to give more space for citizen participation. Many grants and funding have spread to developing countries either in Asia or in Africa, for financing the project using community-based approach as the mainstream. Indonesia is one of developing countries, which accepts the grants, implements the project using community-based approach to improve infrastructure problem especially in rural area. Unfortunately, the evaluation perspective of such project focused only on indicator of performance (such as, physical output, quantifiable parameters). Other important indicators, such as community?s quality of life, wellbeing, and the impact of development on freedom and social justice are not well accommodated. This research is aimed to offer a new perspective on the evaluation of community based infrastructure project from the perspective of capability approach. Combining it with the concept of Institutional Capacity building is the main idea of the establishment of evaluation framework. To test the evaluation framework, two case studies have selected in Pandeglang regency, especially, in villages that conducted road pavement and irrigation improvement project. Qualitative descriptive analysis has used to explain the phenomenon that occurred, as the result from the evaluation framework. The result of evaluation showed that there are important points that were not considered before. Cultural dilutions, elite practice, lack of attention in maintenance process, and uneven distribution of benefit are the effect of community based infrastructure project that has implemented. General implication resulted from this research might change the approach of evaluation for infrastructure project which has used the community base?s mainstream. In addition, incorporating capability approach with capacity would change the planning paradigm to more concerned with increasing choice that is aimed for decreasing gap rather than focusing on growth area oriented and productivity.