Kemandirian ekonomi masyarakat desa berbasis peman - Village community economic independence based on the use of productive assets in Mojokerto regency

This study aims at determining the success of encouraging productive assets for community independence through community empowerment efforts by PNPM. This research method uses a qualitative approach with an ethnographic strategy carried out in Gondang District, Mojokerto Regency, from August to September 2020. The data that used are primary data obtained through in-depth interviews. The researcher also uses secondary data in the form of archives and documents. This study indicates that the efforts to increase community independence through the PNPM community empowerment program tend to focus on increasing productive assets and have not fully focused on community independence through community empowerment activities. Some suggestions are following the research result, namely that the Gondang District UPK should select the community who credit the UEP program to ensure that its use is intended for business development and periodically providing mentoring to the target groups as a form of empowerment evaluation.