Project Narrative

Project Publications

Project Team

Project Narrative:

The Technical Support for Decentralization in Indonesia Project (the Project) was initiated to provide policy support to the Government of Indonesia (GOI) through its partnership in governance reform with USAID. The Project comprised several partners from Indonesia and United States:

• The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University (GSU)
• Planning and Development Collaborative International (PADCO)
• Lembaga Pembangunan Ekonomi Masyarakat (LPEM), Universitas Indonesia

The Project Team coordinated its effort closely with the Center for Local Government Innovation (CLGI), where the Local Program Manager was located.

The key components of this project included: monitoring the status of decentralization reforms, reviewing the intergovernmental coordination, and general technical support and capacity building.

Lead by the Chief of Party – Professor Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and with inputs from, and the assistance of, Mr. Kismet Kosasih and other team members, a series of monitoring reports were concluded that monitored the status of decentralization reforms.

The Project Team developed a matrix tool for monitoring decentralization and a workshop was held with CLGI assistance to discuss the Project aims and gain input on the matrix and its use. This workshop brought together GOI, local government associations, donors and other stakeholders.

The Project Team also produced a series of technical papers or issues papers on subjects of relevance to decentralization in Indonesia. In addition to the original analytical framework for assessing the status of decentralization in Indonesia mentioned above, the Project Team completed policy papers on linking expenditure assignments to intergovernmental grants and intergovernmental coordination in Indonesia.

In preparing these papers, the Project team sought to engage with CLGI and LPEM, and was modestly successful in sharing views and generating a discussion around some important issues treated in the policy papers. The Project Team reached out to GOI donors and other stakeholders once the papers were completed or the key findings were available. Workshops were in June 2002 and February 2004 to present and discuss the findings. An Indonesian language summary was prepared for this purpose and for subsequent dissemination.

Project Publications:

• Periodical Assessment of the Status of Decentralization Reform in Indonesia: A Matrix (July 2003)
• Building a bridge between Law 22 and Law 25: Linking expenditure assignments and intergovernmental grants in Indonesia (November 2003)
• Inter-Governmental Coordination In Indonesia: Adapting To The New Decentralization Framework (March 2004)

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