ABSTRACTThe focus of this research is to evaluate the development of affirmative area to independent village (study of rural agroforestry development in Pangalengan Regency, Bandung Regency West Java Province), by assessing how successful the rural development program and the role of Government, local government, village government, private and community together, integrated, and multy sector in an effort to accelerate and improve the quality of service, development, and empowerment of rural

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... munity to independent village by using six evaluation policy criteria according to William N Dunn, as material for improvement of program implementation in the next year according to planning stage . The method of this research is to use the combined method of qualitative descriptive, inductive, and data collection through interview, observation, documentation and Forum Group Discussion (FGD) conducted in the office and location of the area to know the extent of the implementation of rural development. The results showed that, by considering the results of the evaluation (On -Going) almost meet the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, responsiveness, while the criteria of smoothing and precision has not been met optimally, and so far only focus on infrastructure activities have not touched the program of quality improvement Human resources and empowermentcommunity. it can be concluded that there is a better development of the village as a result of the implementation of development programs in the first and second year, only not yet reached the achievement of the target of the village status independently. Keywords: evaluation, rural area development, a self-sufficient village