Community development is an activity that aims to provide a better life for the community. However, various dynamics in the implementation of community development programs can affect the sustainability of the program and even threaten the sustainability of the program. This research discusses the evaluation of community development programs carried out in Warjabakti Village through commodity transformation activities with the addition of commodities in the form of oranges through the application of Robert D. Putnam’s social capital theory and James Copstake and Richard Walker’s theory of change as the basis for the evaluation. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative method with primary data collection techniques through observation and in-depth interviews with the farmers and academics involved. Meanwhile, literature studies and documentation studies are used as secondary data sources. Meanwhile, to ensure data validity, source triangulation is used as a technique to test the validity of the data. The research results show that the application of social capital in evaluating community development programs using indicators from the theory of change found that the existence of social capital is an important factor that contributes to the sustainability of community development programs in addition to the existence of economic capital to realize one of the SDG’s Village goals, namely goal eight “Equal Village Economic Growth.”
Atlandi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.