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the poverty trap by creating a sense of self-ability and trust.
Empowerment in this study refers to the process of enabling and
nurturing the poor. In the context of community development
economic theory, empowerment of the poor is usually associated
with the concepts of justice, participation, networking and
independence (Soetomo, 2015).
Model of empowerment based on the Masjid in urban areas. This
model can be a benchmark for developing of empowerment program
includes four components, namely:

- Economic empowerment input including based financial
institution, management, beneficiaries and cooperation.
- Economic empowerment process begun from building
spirituality, capacity building to power building conducted
respectively and develop entrepreneurship experience.
- The output of economic empowerment contained human
building, business building institutional building and
environmental building.
- Economic empowerment outcome is congregation economic
powerfulness.

The effectiveness generally refers to the rate of output,
compared to input process by a system. In the economic context, the
effectiveness describes the ability of system in generating the
maximum desired outputs from the constrained inputs using the
available technology. Therefore, the effectiveness improves when
output increases while inputs remain the same or reduced. An
economic system is effective if it can provide more goods and
services, without having to seek out more than available resources.
The effectiveness measurement model were first introduced by
Farrell, consisting two components, namely technical effectiveness
and allocative effectiveness. Technical effectiveness reflects the
organizations ability to obtain maximum output from a given set of
inputs. Allocative effectiveness reflect the organizations ability to
use the inputs in optimal proportion based on given prices and
production technology. The effectiveness in terms of operations is

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