The ISSTC Newsletter I / 2014
Editor in Chief
Rika Kiswardani
Editor In Board
Mukhammad Fahrurozi
Yane Widayanti
Ivan Novianto
Pratiwi R. Larosa
Photo Editor/Design Graphis
Dani Ismaya
Dwi Mardianto
Contributors
The ISSTC Newsletter
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TRENDING TOPICS
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ASEAN ECONOMIC
COMMUNITY :Opportunities
and Challenges A Head
ACHIEVEMENTS
4
UNOAC: The 6th Global Forum
of Unite Nations Alliance
of Civilization 2014, Bali
Indonesia
BEHIND THE SCENE
5
The challenge of the
assignment of Korean
Overseas Volunteers Program
in Indonesia,
the mission whether the
beneficial for Indonesia?
HIGHLIGHT
7
The Art of Knowledge
Exchange Workshop and
Training Sponsored by the
World Bank Institute
TRIANGULAR
COOPERATION
9
Appraisal of GIZ Project on
South-South and Trilateral
Cooperation and Networks for
Global Governance
10
MInutes of Meeting
On The Appraisal of The
Indonesian-German Program
“South-South and Tringular
Cooperation and Networks for
Global Governance”
INDONESIA CULTURE
AND ART
12
Sail Raja Ampat 2014
14
Angkringan
15
Training for Young Leaders:
10 minutes a valuable moment
for Maternal and Child Health
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How Effective Training On
Participants Community
Development for Afghanistan?
22
New Chapter of Technical
Cooperation Between
Indonesia And Timor Leste:The
President’s Commitment
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Strengthening Indonesia’s
Soft Diplomacy In Melanesian
Countries
24
Study on Policy
Implementation and Funding
Partnership Strategy of
South-South and Triangular
Cooperation
26
The Ambasador of India
Conducted Iftar at Four
Season Hotel on 14 July 2014
27
Mr. Kinley Dorji (Bhutan)
Appointed As Secretary
General of Colombo Plan
Through Thight Selection
Process for Upcoming 4 (Four)
Years Period
28
Dear readers,
T
his year will be a crucial moment in Indonesian history due to our general election, both Legislative Election and Presidential Elections. As the third largest democracy country in the world, Indonesia hold elections every five years to elect their repsesentatives in parliament both for the central and local governments (province and district). Then, a few months later, presidential elections will be held and its terms and conditions will refer to the results of the legislative elections. General election in Indonesia is always a democracy party for the people where they can use their votes directly with guaranteed independence and privacy. Succesful election process is an indicator of a country’ democratic stage.We presented various topics in this edition, such as: the Art of Knowledge Exchange Workshop by World Bank, 8th United Nations for Alliance in Civilitation (UNAOC), Annual South-South Cooperation Meeting, Basic Survey on Indonesia South-South and Triangular Cooperation (ISSTC) by CSIS and UNDP, Evaluation for Indonesia’ South-South and Triangular Cooperation Programs, etc. We are delighted to present this edition to you. In this edition, we also discussed the ASEAN Economic Community. This issue has been interesting because less than a year from now, ASEAN member countries will be implementing “a big family” as ASEAN One Com-munity that comprises of three pillars such as: ASEAN Economic ComCom-munity, ASEAN Politcal Security Commu-nity, and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. We are only adressing the ASEAN Economic Community on this edition and will be taking on the other ASEAN pillars for the next edition. While ASEAN has been creating and modifying a blueprint on each pillar, there are some matters that should be highlighted and be of concern for ASEAN member states. The ASEAN Economic Community will establish regional economic integration and is predicted to increase regional competitiveness.
In South-South and Triangular Cooperation, we raised the issue of annual corrdination meeting as a regular meeting to strengthen coodination between all stake holders in Indonesia’ South-South and Triangular Co-operation. Different and modified than previous editions, we currently provide some information on Indonesia Culture and Art. We hope it would be your reference when considering a destination for vacation when visiting Indonesia.
Finally, I would like to congratulate all of you who are celebrating the Holy month of Ramadhan and Happy Eid Mubarak 1435 H. God bless you all.
Last but not least, we would like to convey our sincere thanks to all contributors.
ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
Opportunities
and
Challenges
A
Head
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nly a year from now, ASEAN will start implementing the ASEAN Economic Community as a part of the three pillars of ASEAN One Community, consisted of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), ASE-AN Political Security Community (APSC), and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC). Each pillar has a guideline as a roadmap as how to achieve ASEAN One Community that is mentioned in the ASEAN One Community Blueprint. While ASE-AN has been preparing and modify-ing the blueprint on each pillar, there are some matters that should be highlighted and be of concern to the ASEAN member states. The ASEAN Economic Community will establish regional economic integration and is predicted to increase regional com-petitiveness.According to the WTO (World Trade Organization), ASEAN plus three has been a destination for 27% of the global trade. The global trade worldwide in 2010 period has reached an amount of 27 trillion US dollar including approximately 6,24 trillion US dollar accounted for ASEAN plus three. It means ASE-AN has grown as one of the major trade zones in the global economy. Based on the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint, one direction of ASEAN One Community is a Sin-gle Market and Production Base, which is consisted of five pillars: free flow of goods, free flow of services, free flow of investment, free flow of financing, and free flow of labor forces. Comparing each element, there are three elements that di-rectly influence public domains: free flow of goods, free flow of services and free flow of labor forces. Those elements will interact with the mar-ket and products in every member country. ASEAN Single Market, the AEC will create one of the biggest markets all over the world.
ASE-AN countries’ population amounts to around 600 million people and would potentially attract investment. People in ASEAN member coun-tries will be having various options in choosing products from many manufacturers in ASEAN countries. But on the other hand, ASEAN Sin-gle Market will open the gates for competition widely among ASEAN member countries` products and services.
In relation to free flow of goods, In-donesia is a very big and poten-tial market due to its population size and significant growth of the middle class. Indonesian market will be flooded with various kinds of products with differing quality and competitive prices. Indonesia’s lo-cal products will have to compete against other products from other member ASEAN countries. Gen-erally, people will select a product with superior quality and lower price. Free flow of service will entail service liberalization. To reduce ob-stacles in the free trade of services we need to deal with opening mar-ket access and relative government regulations and procedures to deal with nationals from the ASEAN member counties. Those obstacles that interfere with market access are restrictions in the amount of service demand, transaction vol-ume, number of operators, number of labor, government regulations and procedures, and restriction on foreign capital investment. The free
flow of skilled labor will open up the opportunities for migrant workers to find jobs overseas, so job compe-titions between Indonesian workers with foreign workers from the other ASEAN countries may occur. So, the big challenge for the gov-ernment and all the stakeholders now is not only to increase the people’s knowledge and awareness on the ASEAN Economic Commu-nity, but to increase national com-petitiveness, and more importantly how to organize and implement it. The government needs non-state actors such as academics and the private sector involvement to so-cialize it to the public,. Socializa-tion should be effective and sus-tainable. Not only the methods and media to be used, but also the con-tents of socialization should reflect any opportunities and challenges that we face. Private sector is re-quired to develop their compara-tive advantages and competicompara-tive- competitive-ness because they will compete directly against the private sectors from other member ASEAN coun-tries. The Government should be working hand in hand with the pri-vate sector in the scheme of Pub-lic-Private Partnership in terms of socialization and increasing public awareness and competitiveness in both human resources and busi-ness communities. In any case, we must remain optimistic and brave to turn challenges into opportunities.
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olerance-Human being must respect one other, in all their diver-sity of belief, culture and language. Differences within and between societies should be neither feared nor repressed, but cherished as a precious asset of humanity. A cul-ture of peace and dialogue among all civilizations should be actively promoted. It is one of the six val-ues stipulated in the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by the 189 World Leaders during the Millennium Summit fourteenth years ago. defusing crises that arise at the in-tersection of religion and politics and furthermore to understand the divide between cultures and society and to form programs to address the issue by encouraging “Harmony among Civilizations”.These works and initiative are supported by 114 states and 25 International organizations known as Group of Friends. The Alliance works mainly in four priority areas to which it brings a multi disciplinary and multi-perspective approach: Education, Media, Migration and Media.
UNAOC`s primary mission is to forge a collective political will and to mobi-lize a concerted action at institution-al and civil society levels aimed at improving understanding and
co-operative relations among nations and peoples across cultures and religions and, in the process, helping to counter the forces that fuel polarization and extremism. The UNAOC`s particular focus is on im-proving relations within and among Western and Muslim societies and on addressing persistent tensions and divides.
UNAOC has a high-profile event called “Global Forum”, bringing together prominent personalities, current and potential partners and other from different sectors. Since its inception, UNAOC Global Fo-rum have been successfully held for five times, Madrid (2008), Istanbul (2009), Rio De Janeiro (2010), Doha (2011), and Vienna (2013).
Indonesia has the honor to host the Sixth UNAOC Global Forum that will take place in Bali, 28-30 August 2014. Bearing the theme “Unity in Diversity: Celebrating Diversity for Common and Shared Values”, all the stakeholders will get together to vigorously foster cross-cultural dia-logue and understanding.
As a country embraced with the wealth of culture, ethnicity, linguis-tic and religious diversity, the world has acknowledged Indonesia`s successfulness in promoting har-monization among society through inter-religion and inter-media dia-logues and active role in the Asso-ciation of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing and transforming the region in the ASEAN Communi-ty with a single vision and common sense of identity by 2015.
All the experiences possessed by Indonesia will be a good example to a number of ongoing transitions tak-ing place around the world. More-over, this forum would be beneficial for Indonesia, to further its role in the global world.
The Forum will be participated by 114 members of UNAOCs Group of Friends (GoF), including 11 state leaders that have been invited by Indonesian President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhoyono, 25 international organizations, and 100 people from UNAOCs youth delegation.
During the two day forum, two ple-nary panel discussions will be con-vened focusing on the main theme, followed by a series of break-out sessions dedicated to the four pil-lars of UNAOC. Participants will take part in the partners’ exhibitions, award ceremonies, video screening and various side-events, which UN-AOC partners will have the oppor-tunity to organize at the margins of the forum.
The Sixth Global Forum of the UNA-OC, the first in the Asia Pacific, will seek to reflect and benefit from the diverse setting of the region. Further-more, the Forum will set the debate within a wider context, including the ongoing discussion on the post-2015 development agenda. As one of the event’s outcomes, members of the UNAOC’s Group of Friends will adopt the Bali Declaration on the Alliance of Civilizations, reaffirming their commitment to support the mandate of the Alliance and identify concrete and implementable mea-sures in line with the main theme of the Forum. (ed)
UNOAC:
The 6
th
Global Forum on United
Nations Alliance of Civilization 2014,
Bali Indonesia
Under the direction of the Secretary to the Ministry of State Secretariat to the Head of Bureau for Foreign Technical Co-operation, the Ministry of State Secretariat, a Workshop on Evaluation of Korean Junior expert/Korean Over-seas Volun-teer (KOV) Program for the years of 2008 – 2013 and Future Program Development was convened. The workshop was held on 5 March 2014 at the Meeting Room of the Ministry of State Secretariat Building III 4th Floor.
The Workshop was attended by participants from the Minis-try of State Secretariat as facilitator of KOV Program, central ministries/agencies (the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Sup-porting ministries, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, the National Intelligence Agency, the National Armed Force, and the National Police, Local Governments such province as East Java, South Sulawesi, West Kalimantan. Resource persons for the workshop are Ms. Rika Kiswardani, Head of Bureau for Foreign Technical Cooperation, Mr. Tumpal Hutagalung, Dep-uty Director of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Hj. Suryati, Head of Division of Bureau for Planning and Organization, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mr. Adjang Surahman, Officials of Ministry of Education and Culture, and Mr. Mukhammad Fahrurozi, Head of South-South and Techni-cal Cooperation, Ministry of State Secretariat.
The Objectives of the evaluation workshop are to evaluate the implementation of KOV Program over 5 years and its development of future programs, to request contribution for improvement on the management of KOV program, to share experiences among the stakeholders who are involved in the KOV’s program; to create networking between the Ministry of State Secretariat with other central government ministries and Local governments to better coordinate.
The workshop was divided into 2 (two) sessions; the First Ses-sion was intended for policy matters.The Bureau for Foreign Technical Cooperation presented covering the history, back-ground, legal documents of the Program, field of assignment, report of evaluation, development strategy of the KOV’s future program, request from the Korean Government and follow up of the KOV’s Program. Resource person from Ministry of For-eign Affairs presented several issues such as: bilateral cooper-ation between the Government of Indonesia and the Republic of Korea, role of Korea in the region, the important of Korea to Indonesia, the latest issue of Korea, and existing and priority of cooperation.
Second Sessions focused on the related matters of KOV’s Program in Indonesia. As resources persons from the related ministries/agencies, the Ministry of Education and Culture de-livered the materials on the position of Directorate General of Early Childhood Education for the KOV’s Program, the Importance of Early Childhood Education in Indonesia, stan-dardization of Early Childhood Education, stanstan-dardization of lectures of Early Childhood Education, the role of KOV for Early Childhood Education. Ms. Suryati from the Ministry of Youth and Sports talked about the role of the Ministryfor the KOV’s Program in Indonesia, the result of monitoring and evaluation of the KOV’s Program, its problem and challenges. In addition, the resources person from Ministry of State Secretariat shared the result of monitoring and evaluation conducted bythe
minis-try. Responses from the participants during the workshop are described as follows:
• KOVs were expected to bring optimum benefit and the areas of their expertise should meet with Indonesia’s needs.
• Role model of KOV such as discipline and positive cul-tural works for youths will be transferred to Indonesian. • Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be
evaluat-ed before extending the cooperation.
• For ease of supervision, a number of KOVs to be as-signed in Indonesia have already been decided. • Before sending to Indonesia, each KOV will carry copy
of curriculum vitae, and certificate of good conduct issued by the Government of the Republic of Korea, persons with military background prohibited from join-ing the program.
• Clean travelling documents such as a passport. • Selection in line with the Indonesia’s need and refrain
from intelligence activities.
• Coordination with Local Police office. Any further con-tact and communication should be made at Interna-tional Relation Division, the Headquarter of the Nation-al Police.
• Dispatch of KOVs should be in line with the Indonesia’s regulation.
• Intelligence tapping will be a concern for accepting KOVs in Indonesia.
• Transfer of knowledge to the host organizations and Indonesian people.
• KOVs ability in Bahasa Indonesia will be improved. • Variety of fields/areas/expertise of KOV will be
pro-posed.
• Propose to establish Indonesia Center for promoting Indonesian culture.
• Directorate General of Higher Education is willing to provide Indonesian language teachers in the Republic of Korea.
• Except taekwondo teachers, most are fresh graduates and lacked experience.
• Less contribution and they are more information dig-ging from Indonesia.
• Less adaptable and minimum socialization in Indone-sian community
The resources persons responded further as follows:
• The MoUshould provide for the stipulations to deal with prohibited activities such as fund raising, tribal conflicts and religious and political activities outside of the assignment
• Security aspect is very important and is a top priority for the provision of permits to volunteers who enter
The challenge of the assignment of
Korean
Overseas Volunteers Program in Indonesia
,
in Indonesia. Approval letter from the Ministry of State Secretariat furnished recommendations from imple-menting agencies and its carbon copy to security agencies.
• In the Clearing House Forum, immigration issue has always attracted close attention especially the fine distinctions for the official passport holders, ordinary passport holders, and the treatment given to the vol-unteers.
• In the arrangement of Non-Tax State Income Tax, there is zero cost of rupiah which could be provided within the framework of technical cooperation. The recommendation published by the Ministry of State Secretariat can be used as the provision of the cost of recommendations zero rupiah for experts and foreign students within technical cooperation framework. • Arrangement on the KOV Program and the World
Ex-perts Friends Advisor are regulated separately. • Clarity in the instrumental arrangement related to
agencies which provide feedback of KOV as to who is in charge in the field or the vertical agencies supervising the host of organizations.
• Government approval on the volunteers’ assignment will be issued on annual basis and it will be extended for one year.
• Relating to substance/material of cooperation, de-tailed planning and the mechanisms need to be re-viewed again.
• At the annual consultation forum, it will be expected to be able to express the needs of the Indonesian gov-ernment to the Republic of Korea.
• The Ministry of Education and Culture expects each volunteer dispatched to Indonesia has the qualifica-tions required by the Government of Indonesia. For ex-ample in teaching early childhood education, required qualificationsare as follows:
− Teacher must have had qualified university degree / adiploma 4 areas of early childhood education/ other education /psychology sup-ported with pedagogic competence , atti-tudes, social, professional that has been set over 74 indicators/competence.
− Companion teacher must have qualified edu-cation Diploma 2 Eduedu-cation Teacher for Early Childhood School /training/courses and cer-tification of early childhood education
sup-ported by a total of over 48 competence or indicators.
− Advisor must have high school level qualifica-tion or the equivalent supported by compe-tence withover 14 indicators/compecompe-tence − MoU will be drafted by theKOICA Indonesia
Office and implementing institutions.
− Proposing to KOICA to submit volunteers’ expertise to enable to socialized and dissem-inates the information by the Central Govern-ment to host organizations.
− KOVs’s expertise must meet the needs and requests of Indonesia.
Conclusion
• The Republic of Korea is a strategic partner of Indone-sia, both within the framework of bilateral cooperation and regional cooperation, included in the categories of a program to develop the capacity of Indonesia. • The evaluation of the volunteer program of Korea for
five years was conducted as a record for the Govern-ment of Indonesia in the developGovern-ment of the program of Korea volunteer in the future.
• The program should be demand driven rather than supply driven.
• Guidelines for the volunteer should be completed to guide the institutions that handle a Korea volunteer program.
• M & E should be done regularly involving the institu-tions handling KOVs,especially the KOICA Office. • Small Scale Project assistance from KOV to the host
institutions must be reported to related Ministry/institu-tion and recorded.
• The role and responsibility of the implementing institu-tions will be more empowered.
• Need survey involving all the stakeholders for seeking, inter alia, expertise, requirements of expertise, place of assignment and standardization of volunteer who will be sent to Indonesia.
The Art of
Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Training
sponsored by the World Bank Institute
E
ver wonder how to arrange training programs or workshop dy-namics? The World Bank Insti-tute in cooperation with the Ministry of National Development Planning conducted a two day workshop (1-2/04/2014) on the Art of Knowledge Exchange. This was a two day workshop to enhance the knowledge of the participants on how to organize knowledge ex-change activities, such as train-ings, workshops, class dynam-ics, and many more. The focus of the workshop was on how to generate knowledge exchange activities within the area of Disas-ter Management, as this occasion was brought about as part of the Technical Assistance to the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) on Developing Knowledge Exchange (KE) Capacity, sponsored by the World Bank Institute.The basic principle of knowledge exchange is that, there are some amount of knowledge gap between ‘what we are’ now and ‘where we want to be’. After a certain knowl-edge exchange activity has been done, this knowledge gap can be overcome with five activities includ-ing Anchor, Define, Design, Imple-ment, and Results. Anchor can be separated into three key points, 1) identify the development gap; 2) Define the institutional challenges; and 3) Determine the change ob-jective. These actions are mainly to define what the organizational needs are, what the organization’s strength are and weaknesses, and what the main objectives for the or-ganization to achieve are in order to succeed.
Define includes activities such as: 1) Identifying participant` profiles; 2)determine what to achieve in the
medium term; and 3) identifying the knowledge providers. After Anchor-ing, the Defining can be concluded as activities related to identifying organizational profiles, what these participants to get in the near future, and who the providers delivering such needs are. This step is the main step on looking at the organi-zational needs, the people related to these needs, and to bridge these people with kind of knowledge ex-change activities needed to en-hance their capacity.
Understanding organizational needs and who the participants are, the third step can be conducted. This step, Design, is where the planning of the knowledge activity start with. This step comprises of activities, such as: 1) Select the participants; 2) Organize the design and de-livery team; 3) Develop a timeline for the initiative and propose concrete
interventions (instruments); 4) Cre-ate agendas for specific activities; 5) Prepare the contents. Selecting participants need to put forward some considerations, such as what type of capacity the person have, where they are working, and what can they do after the knowledge exchange has ended. One sugges-tion from the World Bank (2013) is ‘Putting people with diverse back-grounds and perspectives togeth-er can result in a powtogeth-erful learning experience as well as inspire net-works that continue long after the knowledge exchange initiative has ended’. Furthermore, some instru-ments may be combined are con-ference, expert visit, knowledge fair, study tour, workshop, competition,
knowledge jam, multi-stakeholder dialogue, community of practice and twinning.
The next step is the Implementing step. The basic principle throughout the knowledge exchange program is that ‘the learners’ are actually ‘the teachers’. These participants with diverse backgrounds share their knowledge with one another to get insights or ideas in order to en-hance their capacities. Therefore the trainer should become a facilitator, rather than a teacher. This part will include activities such as: 1) Guiding the participants along the learn-ing journey; 2) Coordinate engage-ment between participants; and 3) Systematically document
F
rom 27th of January to 6th of February 2014, a del-egation of GIZ conducted a project appraisal on South-South and Trilateral Cooperation to Indonesia. The delegation consisted of Mr. Colin Gleichman (GIZ Head of appraisal mission), Ms. Julia Langendorf (GIZ Bang-kok), Ms. Stefanie Rauscher (GIZ Sector Specialist),and Ms. Imelda Maidir as consultant.The mission`s objective is to formulate a project proposal on South-South and Trilateral cooperation and Networks for Global Governance that has been agreed in the Indonesia–German Government negotiations on 14th November 2013 in Jakarta. The priority area will be “Good Governance and Global Networks”. During the stay, the delegation made a courtesy call to the officials of National Coordination Team for South-South and Triangular Cooperation (NCT-SSTC) such as National Development Planning Agency/Bappenas, the Ministry of State Secretariat as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Main recommendation of the mission was the project will have duration of 2.5 years, starting in the second semester of 2014. The Government of Germany shall fund 1.8 million Euro covering three components: • Strengthening Capacities; Focuson the
ca-pacity development of NCT Secretariat and Staff from the ministries that are NCT members for strengthening the role in coordination and plan-ning of south-south and Trilateral Cooperation Projects.
• Trilateral Cooperation Projects; Focus on the joint planning and implementation of trilat-eral projects. Indonesia and German institutions will collaborate in planning, funding, implemen-tation and evaluation. The collaboration projects in the fields of technical and vocational training (TVET), capital market development, prevention and repression of corruption, regional economic development, and decentralization) and the pri-ority countries are in South East Asia.
• Network for Global Governance; the focus of this component will be the work on strategic concepts for joint work on the implementation of such global agendas as climate environment, sustainable economic development, and other global development agenda
Finally, the delegation has summarized the findings and recommendation described in the Minute of Meeting (MoM) and signed by Mr. Ulrich Mohr, GIZ Country Director for Indonesia and Mr. Wismana Adi Suryabrata, Deputy Minister for Development Fund-ing Affairs, the Bappenas, Tb. A. Choesni Director of International Development Cooperation, Ministry of Na-tional Development Planning Agency Planning/BAPPE-NAS . The following is therefore mentioned MoM:
APPRAISAL OF
GIZ PROJECT
ON
SOUTH-SOUTH AND TRILATERAL
COOPERATION AND NETWORKS
FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
/ TRIANGULAR COOPERATION /
MINUTES OF MEETING
ON THE APPRAISAL OF THE INDONESIAN-GERMAN PROGRAM
“SOUTH-SOUTH AND TRIANGULAR COOPERATION AND NETWORKS FOR
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE”
BACKGROUND
1. This memorandum provides a sum-mary of the findings and recommen-dations of the GIZ project appraisal mission on ‘South-South and Trian-gular Cooperation and Networks for Global Governance’. The appraisal mission took place in Jakarta from 27th of January to 6th of February 2014 and was conducted by Colin Gleichmann (GIZ head of apprais-al mission), Julia Langendorf (GIZ Bangkok), Imelda Maidir (consultant) and Stefanie Rauscher (GIZ sector specialist, headquarters).
2. The mission pursued the objective of formulating a project proposal for the new project on ‘South-South and Triangular Cooperation and Networks for Global Governance’ that has been agreed in the Indone-sian-German Government to Gov-ernment negotiations on 14th No-vember 2013 in Jakarta. This new project will be part of the priority area ‘Good Governance and Global Networks’.
3. For this purpose the appraisal mis-sion has held several interviews and discussions with all stakeholders and analyzed various policy docu-ments. The mission appreciates very much the warm and friendly atmo-the international stage. As an ac-tive member of the G20, the Global Partnership for Effective Develop-ment Cooperation (GPEDC) and the UNSG High-Level Panel on the global development framework, the country has taken responsibility for shaping global policies. As Germany and Indonesia are both engaging in
2. Indonesia has a long tradition of South-South Cooperation and is now in the process of reforming the government structures and proce-dures for South-South and Triangu-lar Cooperation (SSTC). The com-prehensive draft “Grand Design” illustrates the future of Indonesia’s cooperation with all parties who contribute and participate in devel-opment activities. The draft “Blue print for Indonesia’s South-South Cooperation 2011-2014” has spec-ified the tasks for legal reform, the strengthening of institutional coordi-nation as well as planned improve-ments of the implementation, moni-toring and financing procedures. 3. In order to improve the coordination
and to develop binding standards for all implementing institutions, a National Coordination Team (NCT) has been established between the Ministry of National Development Planning (Kementerian Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional/BAPPE-NAS), the Ministry of Finance (Ke-menterian Keuangan) and the Min-istry of Foreign Affairs (Kementerian Luar Negeri, Kemlu) and the Ministry of State Secretariat (Kementerian Sekretariat Negara, Setneg). Stan-dard operating procedures for pro-gram formulation, implementation, and monitoring & evaluation have been drafted and are currently being reviewed.
4. Since there is no legal framework (e.g. Presidential Decree) for a SSTC-coordination body, efficient coordination between the responsi-ble ministries and other Indonesian institutions which finance, plan and implement development coopera-tion projects, will remain a challenge. So far the applications and the deci-sion making for projects with other countries are handled individually by each institution. As a result the government has no overview of its commitments and total spending on development cooperation. It is also
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5. The program entitled “South-South and Triangular Cooperation and Networks for Global Governance” is envisaged to have a duration of 2.5 years, starting from the second semester of 2014. The German side will fund 1.8 million EUR. Based on the above results, the mission de-veloped the following recommenda-tions and main areas of intervention. 6. The outcome of this Indone-sian-German project is expected to be: “The institutions which are in charge of international development cooperation are strengthened to ef-fectively fulfill their role as a regional and global development partner.” The program will consist of three components:
1. Strengthening Capacities:
The output of this component is envisaged to be: “The NCT and its members are enabled to assume their role in coordination and planning of South-South and Triangular Cooperation projects”. The main focus of this component will be on capacity development for the NCT and its members.
gional economic development, decentralization, ASEAN and ASEAN Economic Communi-ty) have been proposed during the mission. Project selection will be determined among the three parties, and not limited to the already proposed projects to the Mission, once the project has started. Both partners share the means necessary for the implementation of the triangular cooperation projects. Project implementation will be done in full-project cycle (PDCA, Plan-Do-Check-Act).
3. Networks for Global Gov-ernance: The output of this component is envisaged to be: “A dialogue process on a jointly agreed topic (e.g. climate, envi-ronment, sustainable economic development, global develop-ment agendas) has been es-tablished between institutions from state, private sector and civil society from Indonesia, Germany and possibly other countries.” The focus of this component will be the work on strategic concepts for joint work on the implementation of global agendas. The project supports Indonesia initiative to become a knowledge hub for SSTC. This component will be linked to the practical work of the ministries that constitute the NCT. This component will also engage re-searchers in the elaboration of strategic perspectives.
4. Depending on needs identi-fied in the framework of the “South-South and Triangular Cooperation and Networks for Global Governance” program, additional funds of up to 1.0 mil-lion EUR can be utilized from the Indonesia-Germany Study and Expert Fund (SFF) to enhance
cooperation in this area as stip-ulated in the summary record of the negotiations on develop-ment cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Government of the Federal Republic of Ger-many (14thNovember, 2013). The utilization of these additional funds for SSTC & NGG has not been appraised by this mission. A separate project document can be prepared for SFF fund-ing when the need for additional funds has been identified. 5. The new program will have
link-ages with other programs. The German “Program for Global Partnerships, PGP” with it com-ponents “Managing Global Gov-ernance, MGG”and the “Global Dialogue of Agencies and Min-istries for International Cooper-ation and Development” works on similar issues and has BAP-PENAS as the partner in Indo-nesia. The appraisal mission has held meetings with JICA and USAID who have committed on strengthening the capacities of the NCT.
6. Project design: Both parties rec-ommend to assign personnel to the new program. The appraisal mission proposes to staff the project with a seconded project manager/advisor, a research as-sistant and a project asas-sistant. Outside of this program it has been agreed that two integrated experts from Germany will be assigned at BAPPENAS to work for BAPPENAS and NCT. 7. The program on South-South
and Triangular Cooperation and Networks for Global Gov-ernance is part of the Indone-sian-German priority area “Good Governance and Global Net-works”. The program will report
to BAPPENAS. The selection of triangular cooperation proj-ects will be handled by the NCT based on requests from Myan-mar. Joint missions for appraisal and monitoring will be conduct-ed with NCT members and other respective line ministries. The implementation agreement for this program will be signed with BAPPENAS. Separate im-plementation agreements for triangular cooperation projects could be signed with the related line ministries and BAPPENAS.
DECLARATION
8. The parties signing here under declare herewith that they agree with the summarized findings and recommendations. This summary report shall serve the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Inter-nationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH as a basis for prepar-ing a proposal for the Program “South-South and Triangular Cooperation and Networks for Global Governance” for consid-eration by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooper-ation and Development (Bunde-sministerium far wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit and EntArick-lung, BMZ).
9. These Minutes of Meeting do not represent a formal program agreement, but rather reflect the assessment of the apprais-al mission and the results of the workshop discussion. They are not binding on either party to the extent that formal approval is subject to agreement by the In-donesian authorities concerned and by BMZ.
Ulrich Mohr
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nown as the “Amazon of the Sea, Raja Ampat stays unpopular as underwater paradise until few recent years. Raja Ampat, a home to 540 types of corals, more than 1,000 types of coral fish and 700 types of mollusk, has become the most diverse living underwater library for scientists and diving enthusiasts. According to The Nature Conser-vancy and ConservationInterna-tional, around 75% of the world’s coral species live in raja Ampat, 10 times the number of hard coral spe-cies found in the entire Caribbean, which makes it a prestigious world’s record holder. Bucky MacMahon on his review on Raja Ampat describes this best, “Scientists call Raja Ampat ‘the epicenter of marine biodiversi-ty’, where there are a number of en-demics and where new species are discovered nearly every time a ma-rine biologist straps on a tank”. The name Raja Ampat or ‘Four Kings’ given to these islands de-rived from local myth comprising 4 biggest islands, namely Waisai, Batanta, Salawati and Misool (home to ancient rock paintings).
Locat-many globetrotter and underwater aficionado to flock together to Raja Ampat. Let alone the blue sky, the crystal clear turquoise water, the white-sand beaches, the mush-room-shaped islets, the primordially starry nights, the spectacular lime-stone walls, hidden caverns and lagoons, you may still have to hold your breath until you dive into the underwater world and take pleasure in swimming together with the
pig-my seahorse dancing around your fingers or Manta Ray and Wobbe-gongs glide by you. Not to mention other myriad of smaller creatures hidden in pristine corals and spong-es. Raja Ampat offers a true beauty above and under the sea, your own version of postcard from heaven. Realizing the great abundance of the natural asset, Indonesian gov-ernment have been conducting a series of global scale maritime events to promote tourist desti-nations in Indonesia to marine fanat-ics around the world. Following the success of Sail Bunaken 2009, Sail Banda 2010, Sail Wakatobi-Beli-tong 2011, Sail Morotai 2012, and
velopment of the region and remote areas through ecotourism sector, said Sharif C. Sutardjo, the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, and chairman of the national organizing committee of the event.
President Yudhoyono himself will attend the peak event on August 23, 2014 on Waisai Torang Cinta (WTC) Beach, Waisai City, Raja Ampat, West Papua, indicating the
importance of this event. Appre-ciation from the highest rank of the country as Sail Raja Ampat is a joint collaboration of multi-parties, asso-ciated ministries, local governments as well as state-owned enterprises and regionally owned enterprises. The participating ministries include the Coordinating Minister for People Welfare, the Ministry of Marine Af-fairs and Fisheries, Ministry of Trans-portation, Ministry of Public Work, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of State-owned company, Minis-try of Defense, MinisMinis-try of Home Af-fairs, Ministry of Public Housing, Minis-try of Social Services, and Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. Certain amount of budget
Sail Raja Ampat 2014:
Building the Maritime,
Bringing Raja Ampat to
World Tourism
sector have been improved, econo-my sector have been increased, and promotion has been intensified as well.
Should there be no room for the tini-est mistake, numbers of accom-modation are to be multiplied, main roads are to be paved, and city lights are to be doubled in numbers. “There will be 500 homestay and a number of resort”, said AgungLak-sono, The Minister for Coordinating Ministry for People Welfare.
“Boats will be turned into floating hotel, massive upgrade will also be performed in Sorong”, added the Minister. Hopefully this will bring a full sense of the Event to the participants.
Besides accommodation, airport is also a significant aspect to be im-proved. Marinda Waisai Airport run-way will be extended up to 1400me-ters. In the future, the extension will reach 2000 meters to fit big aircraft. A great amount of work is to be ac-complished for a great amount of purpose.
National and regional television as well as radio will broadcast the event to draw public attention, according to the Ministry of Communication and Informatics. A series of public shows, traditional media exhibition, magazines and books publishing will continuously be promoted through advertisement media. Internet Ser-vice Centre and also WiFi con-nection will be prepared at district level to provide access to the par-ticipants. Every considerable aspect at both national and regional is im-proved in both quality and quantity. Among the above mentioned sec-tors, sanitation and waste manage-ment around the region have also been put in ‘what to do’ priority list. These are important support-ing aspects which demand serious attention in terms of their relation to the local custom and culture. All the efforts are in line with the main goal of building a positive image for inter-national participants.
Months prior to the D-Day, the In-donesian government together with the local governments have been conducting a numbers of
sup-porting activities to attract as much attention as possible including free Social Service and Health Service, Sail Archipelago Ring IV, National People Welfare Service, Building Kampong Action, National Youth Sail, Yacht Rally, International and National Seminars, Tourism Po-tential Development, World Sport, and also Regional Potential and Sentani Lake Festival Exhibition. Adding to the lists, the minister for Cabinet Secretariat proposed Pap-uan Batik Design Competition to enliven the festivities. The compe-tition is expected to raisethe sense of ownership and participatory from the community.
The success of Sail Raja Ampat will be a grand achievement to the In-donesian government as it is an af-firmation of Indonesia’s position as the living maritime archipelago on the planet
Seminar on Public Administration
for Indonesia Civil Servants
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f someone asked you what is the per-fect place to enjoy good times without social segregation in Yogyakarta, then Angkringan would be the easiest an-swer. Designed as a simple and inex-pensive food stall, Angkringan is home to those who crave for warm talks, from nothing to something, with relaxing at-mosphere. Angkringan attracts various range of customer from student to exec-utive, Pedi cab driver to office workers, celebrity, journalist, bloggers, and bikers to party goers. Amidst the mushrooming fashionable restaurants and cafe in Yog-yakarta, Angkringan still finds a niche in the heart of local people. It has definitely become an important part of Yogyakarta urban culture.For people who come from other areas outside Yogyakarta and Central Java, angkringan is one of the typical cultural and culinary appeals. Angkringan, de-rived from the word ‘angkring’, which means to sit down comfortably, is a lo-cal plastic-tent covered food stall selling ordinary snacks and drinks with afford-able prices which opens in the evening until late midnight. In Solo, Central Java, people call this type of eating place as ‘Hik’. Customers will sit on long bench near the seller (bakul) or on the woven mat spread around the food stall. The stall itself is equipped with at least one built-in stove using charcoal to heat the foods such as fried tempeh, fried stuffed tofu, chips, chicken satay, quail egg sa-tay, or roasted chicken intestine. The iconic dish however has always been ‘Sega Kucing’, literally translated as ‘Cat Rice’ for its small portion as that in a cat’s meal. They consist of small amount of rice and spicy stir-fried tempeh or anchovies wrapped in banana leaves or recycled paper. A mixture of strong flavored kretek cigarette, the charcoal heat, and murmured chatter illuminated
black coffee plunged with heated char-coal. While the word ‘Joss’ is an informal slang/local interpretation to emphasize the sound of the heating charcoal when it is plunged into the coffee. According to many sources, Lik Man’s grandfather, MbahPawiro, has been believed to be the first angkringan trader in 1950. In 1969, he inherited his business to his grandson Siswo Raharjo (known more as Lik Man). At first, angkringan used to be a hangout place for those doing menial jobs such as pedicab driver or porters who had to work late at night. Unlike present days, where Angkringan functions as eating place for everybody who simply enjoy friendly environment. Angkringan Lik Man continues to be a popular site and has grown to be one of culinary attractions amid the growing number of angkringan in Yogyakarta. Try to come to this place during holiday sea-son, and do not be surprised if you have to wait a little bit longer for the seller to arrange additional sitting mat as it gets more crowded at night.
Though angkringan started as an eco-nomic business around 1950, it was no earlier than two decades ago that angk-ringan enjoyed its ‘golden age’. As for romantic side of it, angkringan is very nostalgic to those who were students in Yogyakarta in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is a big part of their student lives in Yogyakarta city, which is home to four public universities and more than other 150 private institution of higher ed-ucation. The domestic economic situa-tion during these periods were much of a struggle, that low-priced outlets such as angkringan was a source of attraction. The relation then was built be-tween these students with other group
sa mangan’ (a satisfaction coming from a feeling when you have eaten), even though it is only a small portion of ‘Sega Kucing ’.
As the relation continues to grow, the conversation also varies from light or mild to heavy talk, from pure banter to politi-cal issues. Maybe this is actually what makes Angkringan so unique, a non splendid space which allows various backgrounds and diverse conversations to take place. A luxurious thing for some group of people from the low class com-munity, had been dreaming of for quite some times, that is an open access to the higher class of society, to speak up their concerns, a diplomacy in its most sensible way. In Yogyakarta, a state-owned local television station even start-ed to broadcast a show callstart-ed ‘Obrolan Angkringan’ (Angkringan Talk) around 1990s when Angkringan was very popu-lar. The show is about any recent issues, ranging from social to politics, from the big picture to the nitty gritty, wrapped in a relaxing and funny conversation in An-gkringan, added with some slapstick to put a humor and entertaining attribute to the show. A soft pressure put by the local society to the central government for a better living that any citizen has the right to enjoy, egalitarianism. Angkringan with its all flaws, the heat, the sweat, the bad smell of smoke, afterall has evolved from nothing to something capable of ‘forc-ing’ people to think deeper about bet-ter living condition. Through the friendly conversation, egalitarianism is actually not merely a castle in Spain, for couple of hours, it is a real moment to be captured and enjoyed.
Angkringan:
a glimpse of
egalitarianism
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tarting from the opportunity to attend the Training Program for Young Leaders in the health sector in Nagano Japan in 2009, which is organized jointly by Bureau for In-ternational Technical Cooperation, Ministry of State Secretariat of Re-public of Indonesia with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), one of the participants sent by the Health Office in Bandung, West Java, Dr. AnnisaIntan Fat-mawaty, CHt, Head of Public Health Center (Puskesmas) Kopo, Band-ung, managed to bring home new ideas and insights about the em-powerment of Maternal and Child Health.According to her, the training pro-gram not only get the theory of health management, but also invited to make observations to study how health management system in the Saku prefecture with the famous Pocket best health systems in the world. One thing that really caught her attention when it was during a visit to the Mayor’s office of Saku prefecture, where they showed the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) handbook, as already exist in Indonesia. Japanese state
be-gan implementing the use of books in the Year 1948. Since Japanese nationals utilize this book, gradual-ly Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) they declined, even today Japan is the country with the lowest MMR and IMR in the world. Because of that success, then the MCH handbook adapted by many countries, partic-ularly developing countries including Indonesia.
MCH handbook in Indonesia was in-troduced in 1996 by the Japanese. Current implementation in Indone-sia has reached 33 provinces, each year the government prints and dis-tributes approximately 4.5 million books throughout Indonesia. MCH
handbook is given away for free in health centers and integrates any pregnant women in antenatal care for the first time. This book actually belongs to the child and used since the child isin the womb until the child is 5 years old (toddlers). By wearing the MCH handbook the mothers and their families are expected to read the book for increased knowl-edge, change attitudes and healthy behavior that can eventually reduce the MMR and IMR.
The high maternal and child mortal-ity rates in Indonesia, especially in West Java became a pretty heavy task for the government, especial-ly for community health workers who spearhead in the field. Various health care infrastructure to be im-proved, so did the health programs related to maternal and child health continues to evolve. For example, just Jampersal programs, part-nerships of Midwife-Shaman Paraji and much more. But the reality on the ground is that, the most difficult part is to intervene at the family lev-el. The level of education, knowl-edge, socio-economic, beliefs, cul-ture, consciousness and behavior of families in maternal and child health
efforts also affect the occurrence of Maternal Mortality, disease/death of Infant and Toddler.
Faced with the above phenomenon, Dr.Intan has been trying to innovate, that is doing a joint book reading ac-tivities MCH handbook followed by pregnant women and toddlers while Mom waited health services at the health center every morning at 8.00 o’clock in UPT Puskesmas Kopo Bandung, West Java, a health worker will lead the pregnant mother
Building Leadership
through Training
Program for Young
Leaders :
10 minutes
a valuable moment for
Maternal and Child
and toddler`s mother to read along of the book. They usually read 1-2 topics contained in the MCHhand book,for approximately ten min-utes, including questions and an-swers, which is called “10 MINUTES IN THE MORNING”. Since the be-ginning of this activity in March 2011 to June 2012, it has been noted that more than 1,500 pregnant women and toddler`s mother had followed “the activity of 10 Minutes in the Morning” in Puskesmas Kopo. The purpose of this activity is to increase the interest of the pub-lic to read the book of Health, so there is an increase in knowledge and changes in people’s behavior, especially pregnant women and toddlers mother, the Maternal and
Child Health, which in turn can re-duce MMR and IMR. She believes that “if you teach a mother, you teach the world”. It is undeniable that the health of society is deter-mined by the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of life.
From one of the pioneering activ-ities and other activactiv-ities that exist in the health centers as well as the support provided from the relevant government agencies, Puskes-mas Kopo successfully obtained an award from the Governor of West Java as health centers with the best performance throughout West Java province in 2011 and become one of the pilot health cen-ters not only in Bandung areas, but at national and international levels.
Background Information on TCTP
�TCTP as a component of the JICA Project for Strengthening Community-led Rural Development Support System in Afghanistan (AIRDSCLD Project)
One of the practical activities of Nation-al Coordination Team of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (NCT-SSCT) member is to practice evaluation of SSTC projects. On January 2014, CADEP Project Team together with NCT of SSTC conducted the evaluation of “Third Country Training Program on Participatory Community Development for Afghanistan” by using of the Review Survey of Japan International Cooper-ation Agency (JICA). By applying the evaluation guideline as well as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as much as possible with aiming at verification of the documents.
Background the Program
The Third Country Training Program (TCTP) on Participatory Community Development for Afghanistan was for-mulated with the aim at strengthening technical and administrative capacity of human resources of Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) under the JICA Project for Strengthen-ing Community-led Rural Development Support System in Afghanistan (AIRD-SCLS Project).
The TCTP has been conducted with the support of human resources and
insti-tutional network in Indonesia that have been brought up through JICA Technical Cooperation. In addition, the Indonesian government’s high intention to share In-donesian knowledge with other develop-ing countries has supported the TCTP. The framework of the TCTP was agreed
upon by three parties, namely JICA, MRRD of Afghanistan and Government of Indonesia on behalf of which Minis-try of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia signed the Minutes of Meetings in January 2012 in Jakarta. Since then 4 batches of Af-ghanistan personnel have been sent to Sulawesi of Indonesia to participate in
Total of participants from 1st batch
start-ing from January 2012 until the 5th batch
of January 2014 are 79 Afghanistan participants. They sent from (a) National Solidarity Program (NSP), (b) Communi-ty-led Development Department (CLDD), (c) Provincial Rural Rehabilitation & De-velopment (PRRD), and (d) Afghanistan Institute for Rural Development (AIRD). The Background picture of TCTP will describe as below:
Considering to measuring the extent of the achievements, impacts and lessons learnt of TCTP and decided to conduct a review study, JICA had appointed Ms. Isa Imazato, as consultant who will plan to collect information from the stake-holders in Indonesia. During in Indone-sia, she together with CADEP Team and
NCT-SSTC conducted a review workshop attend-ed by Indonesian stake-holders.
For the purposes of fruit-ful a review workshop and smoothly to organise, supported by CADEP for conducting a prepatory seminar prior to the review workshop.
The Purpose of the Survey
To identify achievements, impact and lessons learnt of the TCTP and to study impact of the TCTP as a triangular cooperation mech-anism.
As a series activities, facilitated by CADEP Team and NCT-SSTC, conduct-ed a review workshop. The workshop held at Akmani Hotel attended by such
related stakeholders, as the NCT-SSTC members consisting of Director of Tech-nical Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and her staffs, Representative of the Bureau for Foreign Technical Coop-eration, CESS, CADEP Team, and JICA officials. The agenda of the workshop which are explanation of the concept and the structure of the review survey by JICA Consultant, Review of the TCTP lead by JICA Consultant (Discussion in Groups), Sharing the Discussion Results and Exchange Views and Further Inter-view, and Review of Workshop.
During the workshop the participants had a Group Discussion. The following topics and the result during Group Dis-cussion as quoted from the Review Re-port made by expert as follow:
• Recommendations on TCTP Curriculum, Venue and Lec-tures/Selection of the Partici-pants. This topic is divided into three categories:
Relevance Matching with JICA’s
coopera-tion area in Indonesia
Effectiveness Achievement of the Expected
outputs
Efficiency • Quantity of the Training
(number of participants, training batches and duration)
• Selection of the participants
• Utilization of available resources Indonesia
Expected output
• Obtain knowledge on Com-munity Driven Development in Indonesia
• Develop knowledge and skill of community facilitation • Develop a plan to advocate
community driven approach for rural development • Feed-back hearing Impact as
South-south Cooperation (Di-plomacy, Capacity Development of Indonesia for Supporting Oth-er Countries)
Impact • Relationship between
the MRRD and Indonesia stakeholders
• Affect to the Triangular Cooperation in Indonesia
HOW EFFECTIVE TRAINING ON
PARTICIPANTS COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT FOR
AFGHANISTAN?
Result of Hearing from Stakeholders in Indonesia (Interview and Workshop)
The followings were major points given by the stakeholders in Indonesia.
1. Feedback/Recommendation to the Training Curriculum of the TCTP
Quantity (Duration of the training and number of participants)
• Training duration was short to complete the scheduled subjects efficiently or range of the training subjects was too
wide for (about) 10-day program. It would be better if it could be focused on macro picture (policy related matter to the Community Driven Development/CDD) or micro picture (technical matter, such as community facilitation) in accordance with the types of participants.
• Numbers of participants (batches and number of one-batch members) were supposed not enough to gain significant
result of the training for the ministry. Participants
• Composition of the participants was too various to target the training subjects. It would be better, if the groups could
be categorized separately as ‘management official group’ and ‘field level officer group’. Officials of the management class need to learn policy level subjects, while field level officers expect to spend more time to learn technical subjects and visit fields
Subjects
• Female participants of the TCTP seemed to be encouraged in the session of gender mainstreaming. In addition, gender
was one of the participants’ highest interest themes at many sessions. Gender relevant training was one of the effective areas in the TCTP for Afghanistan.
• The participants showed high interest in bottom up /collaboration planning mechanism. Generally their concern was
mostly toward district and community level matters
• Training structure has a room to develop. It should ensure to provide the overall picture first and technical part later
so that the participants can understand program/projects based on the knowledge on the overall picture of the CDD.
• Maintaining consistency between the project purpose (AIRDSCLD) and training content would be essential in the
counterpart training.
• Involvement of the JICA Expert in substantial parts (supporting for designing of the curriculum and providing information
for the stakeholders in implementing the TCTP) contributed to making effective TCTP.
Methodology of the training
• Active learning, such as discussion and field visit, were effective and should be increased if the TCTP is extended.
• Language issue was observed in the training. There were participants who were difficult to understand the training
conducted in English medium. They strongly requested to have full translation into their language. Consistency between the training contents and activities in Afghanistan (recommendations)
Promotion of consistency between the training and relevant activities in Afghanistan is important in planning of the future TCTP.
One measure to promote the consistency is getting feedback from the MRRD on how the ex-participants utilized the training result.
Another measure is to study MRRD’s framework on promotion of the CDD. The participants who learned skills of commu-nity facilitation could improve quality of their field work. So, the TCTP has to contribute to linking the improvement with the MRRD’s framework.
In addition, if the MRRD /JICA can inform of the participants’ interest areas in advance, the resource organizations will make better preparation to meet the participants’ needs
2. Impact to the Indonesia Stakeholders
Identification of Indonesia’s strong points to conduct the training for Afghanistan
Collaboration (Government, NGO and community), Bottom Up Regional Planning and Community Empowerment are strong areas for knowledge sharing
PNPM’s approach to utilize the local resources in the CDD will be adoptable for other developing countries.
Indonesia has various types of communities in terms of natural environments, ethnics, life styles, available resources and industries. Therefore, it can provide options in selection of places/locations for the TCTP.
There are enough human resources for the CDD training at different levels from the community to national level.
The Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM)/ Regional Infrastructure for Social and Economic Development (RISE) is going to promote capacity development component for improvement of community facilitation. This component can provide useful information to the National Solidarity Program (NSP).
Gender mainstreaming is one of the recommended areas for knowledge sharing, because of similarity as both Indonesia and Afghanistan are Muslim majorly countries.
Capacity building of the stakeholders in Indonesia
Resource organizations got knowledge about the CDD in Afghanistan Resource persons improved their capacity in delivering training in English
Resource persons revised training materials for every batch in accordance with the comments given by the ex-participants. In addition, they made efforts to make easy explanation for the participants’ understanding. For example, BAPPEDA explained their planning mechanism with the picture of central government’s role and function, because centralization is the government system in Afghanistan.
Communities who hosted the field visit improved confidence by presenting own achievements in village development to visitors.
It became good opportunity of conducting training for international participants for resource persons whose experiences were mostly made in own country.
The TCTP was the first assignment for the COMMIT that was newly established. It became good chance to improve the organization.
3. Relevance to the Important Development Issue in Indonesia
Match to the cooperation policy of the Indonesia government
• Afghanistan is one of the priority countries for Indonesian to provide cooperation.
• Promoting peace and stability in Afghanistan is a key issue of the Indonesian diplomatic strategy. It is expected to
contribute to changing mind-set of Afghan communities so as to improve their lives in own country.
• Recently Indonesia and Afghanistan Government shined MoU on cooperation for the women’s empowerment. So,
training in gender mainstreaming and accepting female participants from Afghanistan are matching with the two coun-tries’ cooperation priority.
4. Recommendations to Improve the TCTP as SSTC
• Involvement of Indonesia government in substantial part of the TCTP is necessary. Information on the recipient ministry
(e.g., MRRD) is necessary to design the TCCP. More communication between stakeholders in Indonesia and Afghan-istan is important.
• JICA’s technical cooperation, including coordination among stakeholders and providing necessary information, is
es-sential to make the TCTP as a technical cooperation.
• Cooperation with the Indonesia Embassy to Afghanistan is important. Coordination between the JICA Afghanistan /
MRRD and the Embassy was helpful for smooth procedure in the TCTP.
5. Other Observation
• The participants did not have any serious health problems; except for presenting symptoms of a minor ailment; such
as stomach problem and poor appetite. There was no serious home-sick as well.
• The participants were eager to communicate with their families. So, CESS arranged SIM card in advance so that they
