ABSTRACT ‘The Effect of Managing Village Fund Allocation on Improving the welfare of Rural ‘Community in Lewobele Village Lewolema District East Flores Regency Albertha Nirong Koten The background of this research is the low level of community welfare in Lewobele village, even though it has been supported by the village fund allocation program. This study aimed to (1) find out the description of the allocation of village funds and the level of welfare of the village community and (2) the effect of managing the allocation of village funds on improving the welfare of the village community. The population. in this study was villagers of Lewobele Village totaling 102 families. By using the Slovin formula, the sample in this study amounted to 50 villagers. Data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using inferential statistical methods, namely simple linear regression. Hypothesis testing is done through t-test. ‘The results of statistical analysis showed that the respondents’ perceptions of the variable of public welfare were 70.52% with good criteria. Furthermore, the respondent's perception of the variable allocation of village funds is 76.84% with good criteria. ‘The results of the t-test revealed that the village fund allocation variable has a significant value of 0.48. This significance value is smaller than the alpha level used by 5%. ‘Then the decision is to reject the null hypothesis (Ho). This means that the village fund allocation variable (X) has a significant effect on the community welfare variable (Y). In addition, the results of the analysis of determination (R2) obtained a coefficient of determination of 0.310, which means that the contribution of the village fund allocation variable (X) to the ups and downs of the community welfare variable (Y) is 31.0%. Keywords: Village Fund Allocation Management, welfare level This document is translated from Indonesian into English by Pusat Bahasa of Universitas, ‘Nusa Nipa Indonesia