The Effectiveness of Village Fund Utilization in The Covid-19 Pandemic Era

(Study: Batu Lambang Village, Pasar Manna, South Bengkulu)

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.220209.049How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Effectiveness; Village Fund; COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 situation in Indonesia had upended the public’s livelihoods, thus changing the dynamics in any governmental actions. After all, it is the Government whose responsibility is to take care of all of their people’s livelihood. Thus, through the bureaucracy scheme based on regional distribution of power, the Government allocated funds which could be used to ease the economic burden and ensure the people’s livelihoods, even to the far-reaching villages. These allocated funds, one of which is in the form of the Village Funds, need to be evaluated to see how effective their utilization truly was, and whether they fulfilled the goals and reached the results the Government wanted. This research was a qualitative social research with the descriptive approach, where the data was gathered through interviews, observations, and documentations. The results show that, through the eight indicators that were tested to determine whether the village fund utilization in Batu Lambang village was effective, all of them were effective. This can be seen by the fact that the village funds were used to reach the predetermined goals, such as Cash Transfers (BLT), and the procurement of COVID-19 mitigation and prevention tools. In addition, all of those were done in a timely, economically effective manner, as prescribed in the fund’s planning.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nolla Prastica
AU  - Suswanta Suswanta
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/03/01
TI  - The Effectiveness of Village Fund Utilization in The Covid-19 Pandemic Era
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Public Organization (ICONPO 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 374
EP  - 381
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220209.049
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220209.049
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