Judul: Mekanisme Kolaborasi untuk Peningkatan Kapasitas Masyarakat dalam Program Kebun Bibit Rakyat di Kabupaten Pohuwato
Abstrak: Kebun Bibit Rakyat (KBR) is one of government’s efforts to empower the society in order to combat degraded land through reforestation. This is government’s program in facilitating and providing forest plant seeds and versatile plant which is fully managed by the group of people. In forestry sector, community empowerment role mode is formed by forest management based on the community which emphasized on community learning process and developing program as its purpose. The people are encouraged to develop their capacity and broaden the knowledge in facing the obstacles which may emerge in their own life, therefore, to support peoples’s initiative in arranging action plan program. Moreover, it is expected that there will be a close relationship between the community and government continously. The KBR program aiming to improve land productivity by providing various products of KBR plants, for instance wood and non wood plants, as well as to give the opportunity for the people in working field in enhancing their income. The target of KBR utilization are to support people’s activity in forest, to promote green environment in public facility, as well as mangrove rehabilitation and community forest working area and village forest. To achieve these goals to be successful, it is required to have the same ways of thinking, managing by all actors in forestry to make coordination and collaboration in a program implementation. Through the collaboration, there will create a right clarity, a role, a responsibility, a benefit as well as a relationship among parties, hence, there will open the rooms for public participation to those who interested in forestry sector. The sequences of forest management as mutually will grant not only in contribution to the forest perservation efforts but also will benefit to the community in promoting their initiative and resource management capacity. Regarding to the capacity building, collaboration mechanism is a process of community development in learning, understanding, and utilizing the resources availability in the area. The implementation of KBR in 2013 at Pohuwato Regency was done in 10 districts, 27 villages with 27 groups of community. Every group consisted of 15 persons including the chairman, secretary, treasurer, the planning team leader, manager, supervisor, and the members inside the seedbed location and seed planting within the area owned by the people. This research aimed: 1) to identify the role of stakeholder in capacity building of the community within KBR program at Pohuwato regency. 2) to evaluate the capacity level of the community within KBR program at Pohuwato regency, 3) to formulate the collaborative strategy to the succeed of KBR program at Pohuwato regency. The datas were collected through interview, observation and questioners. The datas then were analyzed by using stakeholder analysis, gap, and SWOT. The results showed that 1) the stakeholder involved in KBR program was mostly dominated by primary stakeholder, meanwhile secondary stakeholder was not involved in KBR program even though from the identification, secondary stakeholder was concerned and influential enough towards the community capacity building within KBR program; 2) the evaluation of community capacity in KBR program were using gaps analysis showed that the difference between
Keyword: collaboration, stakeholders, community capacity building, Kebun Bibit Rakyat (KBR) program