Efforts to Improve the Capacity of Midwife in the Village to Conduct the Community Empowerment Process Towards an Active Alert in Pidie Jaya

Abstract

Community empowerment is very important to do with the aim that people become independent, in the sense that they have the potential to be able to solve the problems they face, and are able to meet their needs by not depending their lives on outside assistance, both government and non-government organizations. Midwives in the Village with individual characteristics are mostly aged less than 35 years, married status, Diploma-III education, with a working period of more than 6 years and most have become civil servants. The knowledge of village midwives about the development of Desa Siaga is 91.5% good, but the attitudes of village midwives towards the community empowerment process in developing Desa Siaga are more unsupportive, namely 57.3% and those who support 42.7%. Meanwhile, midwives in villages who have high work motivation as facilitators for Desa Siaga development are 58.5% and those who have low motivation are 41.5%. The level of activeness of the Village Midwife in social organizations, such as TP activities. PKK in the village, TP. PKK. Only 57.3% of midwives in the village can carry out the community empowerment process well, while 42.7% are still considered unfavorable. Of the 6 (six) stages of the empowerment process, only 70.7% help determine priorities. in sub-districts, and activities of religious organizations, is still very low at 3.7%.