Dynamic Governance in Reducing Stunting in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

This study aims to determine and analyze dynamic governance in reducing stunting, determine and analyze supporting and inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting, and determine and analyze efforts to overcome the inhibiting factors of dynamic governance in reducing stunting in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This study is based on the capability theory of dynamic governance by Neo and Chen (2007) in Syafri (2012: pp. 180-186), which constitutes three elements: thinking ahead, thinking again, and thinking across. This study used a descriptive method with an inductive approach. Several techniques used in this study to collect data included observation, interviews, and documentation. Techniques used to analyze data included data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. Results of this study on dynamic governance in reducing stunting in Manggarai Regency can be seen from the last measurement in August 2022, with 4313 cases of stunting, a decrease from 5320 cases in February 2022. The stunting reduction policy also increases children’s productivity, which is the fruit of cooperation between sectors tasked with reducing stunting in Manggarai Regency. It is suggested that the Manggarai Regency Government should improve stunting reduction intervention through collaboration between sectors to increase children’s productivity in the Manggarai Regency. Manggarai Regency Government is also suggested to set the right direction of policy by considering social and environmental changes and results of the evaluation of previous programs.