ANALISIS EFEKTIVITAS PELATIHAN KEUANGAN DESA: UPAYA PENINGKATAN PROFESIONALISME APARATUR DESA

Management of village funds as regulated in Permendagri Number 113 Year 2015 has many dimensions of weakness. Egocentrics of village head as holder of village finance management authority (PKPKD), as well as incompetence of regency village apparatus and village fund management policy. Many village do not understand the substance and technical imperatives of the rule of law and comprehensive guidance in the management of village funds, so that the understanding of village fund management is limited only to the proposal for disbursement of village funds, the formulation of the allocation of village funds, and administrative reporting. This weakness makes the effectiveness of the management of village funds is not as expected. Village financial training is believed to minimize the problem. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of village financial training on the ability of village officials in managing village funds. The research design is pre-exsperiment type with one group pretest posttest design. Sampling in this study using simple random sampling method. The sample in this study amounted to 42 respondents from 20 villages in sub-district of Cilongok. This research was conducted in April 2017. The average score ofunderstanding ofvillage finances before training was 5.94 in the less favorable category in village financial management. After being given training is up to 7.56 and enter the good category. The result of different test of paired t test between before and after village financial training showed significant difference with p value 0,00(