NON-CASH FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES BASED ON COPRAS AND CODAS

Abstract

Determination of recipients of the Non-Cash Food Assistance Program (BPNT) is a matter that causes problems if it is not carried out in an objective, transparent, and targeted manner. Previous studies on BPNT were based on a specific method, which did not use a negative trend in the criteria. In this study, the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach was used to recommend the recipients of the BPNT program. Two MCDM models were used in this study, COPRAS and CODAS methods. Spearman's rank correlation method was used to determine the best model and measure the degree of similarity between the results obtained from different models. Spearman rank correlation shows that COPRAS and CODAS have a strong positive correlation of 0.89899. The combined COPRAS-CODAS ranking model produces a very strong positive correlation value of 0.9744 for both methods, so the model is used for recommendations for BPNT program recipients.