Women Empowerment In The Development Of Agro Tourism Villag

DOI

10.2991/iclick-18.2019.15How to use a DOI?

Keywords

tourism village; agro tourism; women empowerment

Abstract

Women's empowerment is ideally implemented by exploring, maintaining, and developing social capital, including local wisdom. The socio-cultural values owned and developed in society must be optimized as the basic capital in creating social responsibility. This can be done by increasing the active role, concern and ability of women in an institutional and sustainable manner. This study aims to determine the strategy of women's empowerment as part of the development of agro tourism village in Paledah Village, Padaherang District, Pangandaran Regency, and West Java. The research uses descriptive method with case study approach. Data collection is done through participative observation, in-depth interviews, and literature study. The number of respondents is 9 person. They were the managers of Kampoeng Wisata Agro, community leaders, tourism businessmen, housewife and government staff. The process of data analysis consists of reduction, display, and conclusion. The results showed that the empowerment of women in the area of Paledah Agro Tourism Village through development various productive enterprises where the housewives engaged in processing and creating various agricultural products that will be marketed at the location of agro tourism. In the development of productive enterprises, the process of women empowerment consists of three stages those are the process of awareness, organizing, and delivery of resources. The conclusion is the empowerment strategy undertaken has built the independence of women in terms of economic, social, and culture.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Neneng Komariah
AU  - Encang Saepudin
AU  - Saleha Rodiah
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Women Empowerment In The Development Of  Agro Tourism Villag
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 72
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iclick-18.2019.15
DO  - 10.2991/iclick-18.2019.15
ID  - Komariah2019/07
ER  -