FACILITATE UNDERSTANDING

1. FACILITATE UNDERSTANDING

PNPM Kecamatan Sumbersuko

Facilitation is a word that describes a person's activities performed in a series of processes. Facilitation comes from the Latin word meaning Facilis ease. In some people often think the same between communication techniques with facilitation techniques. Though clearly has a different essence.

There are several definitions of words contained in the dictionary facilitation include:

• Freeing difficulties and obstacles and make it easy

• Reduce workload

• Help

So when adjusted for community empowerment in PNPM-MPd then Facilitation implies assist and strengthen communities and institutions in order to be able to develop themselves so as to meet their own needs in accordance with their potential in togetherness.

Why in PNPM-MPd necessary facilitation techniques?

To answer the question above, there are several reasons:

a. Working together with a group - community groups

The first and main reason of the need for facilitation techniques in PNPM-MPD is because we will be working together with groups - groups of people. They joined together with the carrying amount and the character of the individual mind to be able to bring a synergy that brings the productive relationship between them. Then with the appropriate facilitation techniques, a facilitator will be able to create a synergistic group, effectively and create a comfortable environment so that members of the group find common ground and agreement of thought and action to achieve common goals

b. Involving adults

Society and actors involved in PNPM-MPD is an adult who has a personality and self-concept, rich practical experience and have a view on something that can directly be applied. Basically, an adult is not empty glass that we can easily pour or fill something into it. Changes in outlook and behavior that are expected to emerge through empowerment in PNPM-MPD, demanding interactive and participatory approach, so that is where the good facilitation techniques necessary and appropriate.

c. Ideas or opinions each person in the group has the meaning

In PNPM-MPd always encouraged that any ideas or opinions from the public and can be delivered diakomoditir proportionally. We also need to be sure that the idea or thought everybody would have a meaning. It required facilitation techniques to collect and direct the idea or thought to be something useful and meaningful to the common perception to be followed up later as a common property

d. Empowerment requires third party

Approach to empowerment in PNPM-MPd least for now, require the involvement of a third party, just call one of them is a district facilitator (FK). As FK is expected to take a role as a driver of the acceleration of empowerment. Besides, it also creates a process of integration between the demands of the program (PNPM-MPD) with the conditions, hopes and aspirations of the people. In order to achieve this it is necessary facilitation process or technique is good and right.