Monitor progress of the Australia–Indonesia Partnership for Justice’s annual work plan––which was approved by Australia and the National Development Planning Agency in 2013––including through an Completed. An Independent Progress Review including a review of the Achieved independent progress review in 2014. Work outlined in this plan will focus of the work plan was undertaken in the first half of 2014. refocus the program on realising the rights of Indonesians, particularly poor women, vulnerable children and people with disability. Enhance communication with stakeholders and the accountability of the Australia–Indonesia Partnership for Justice implementation service provider. DFAT and the National Development Planning Agency have established an annual partnership conference as part of the partnership’s governance arrangements and have replaced the Achieved Completed. program director directly contracted by the aid program with a team leader contracted from the implementation service provider. DFAT will consult stakeholders on the effectiveness of new arrangements throughout the second half of 2013, but early feedback has been positive. Rural livelihoods and agribusiness Develop a management overview for the Indonesia Program for Completed. A secretariat has been established to provide strategic Decentralisation (Rural) once the managing contractor is finalised, management and leadership of the program. A Subsidiary Achieved together with the subsidiary arrangement with the Indonesian Arrangement has been signed with GOI and a Managing Contractor is in Government. place for the program’s principal activity, PRISMA. Finalise the delivery strategy for the rural livelihood and agribusiness Not performed. An assessment of our capacity to effect change in the sector. Not rural and agricultural sectors will be undertaken to inform the Achieved development of the Aid Investment Plan to Indonesia, which will be released in mid-2015. Scholarships Identify a new managing contractor in August 2013 to be responsible for in-Indonesia management of Australia Awards including promotion, Achieved Completed. targeting, application, selection, mobilisation and post-award support. Ensure the new design retains positive features of the current The new scholarships program design retained the strengths of the program, refocusing and strengthening strategies to achieve previous program while incorporating important program strengthened end of program outcomes. It will also continue enhancements including: extending the range of capacity-building implementation of the pilots until they are completed and can be Achieved resources for program beneficiaries; an integrated approach to meeting thoroughly evaluated. the human resource capacity needs of stakeholders; stronger regional engagement and targeting of program resources to sub-national institutions in support of GOI decentralisation objectives.
Monitor progress of the Australia–Indonesia Partnership for Justice’s annual work plan––which was approved by Australia and the National Development Planning Agency in 2013––including through an independent progress review in 2014. Work outlined in this plan will refocus the program on realising the rights of Indonesians, particularly poor women, vulnerable children and people with disability. Achieved Completed. An Independent Progress Review including a review of the focus of the work plan was undertaken in the first half of 2014. Enhance communication with stakeholders and the accountability of the Australia–Indonesia Partnership for Justice implementation service provider. DFAT and the National Development Planning Agency have established an annual partnership conference as part of the partnership’s governance arrangements and have replaced the program director directly contracted by the aid program with a team leader contracted from the implementation service provider. DFAT will consult stakeholders on the effectiveness of new arrangements throughout the second half of 2013, but early feedback has been positive. Achieved Completed. Rural livelihoods and agribusiness Develop a management overview for the Indonesia Program for Decentralisation (Rural) once the managing contractor is finalised, together with the subsidiary arrangement with the Indonesian Government. Achieved Completed. A secretariat has been established to provide strategic management and leadership of the program. A Subsidiary Arrangement has been signed with GOI and a Managing Contractor is in place for the program’s principal activity, PRISMA. Finalise the delivery strategy for the rural livelihood and agribusiness sector. Not Achieved Not performed. An assessment of our capacity to effect change in the rural and agricultural sectors will be undertaken to inform the development of the Aid Investment Plan to Indonesia, which will be released in mid-2015. Scholarships Identify a new managing contractor in August 2013 to be responsible for in-Indonesia management of Australia Awards including promotion, targeting, application, selection, mobilisation and post-award support. Achieved Completed. Ensure the new design retains positive features of the current program, refocusing and strengthening strategies to achieve strengthened end of program outcomes. It will also continue implementation of the pilots until they are completed and can be thoroughly evaluated. Achieved The new scholarships program design retained the strengths of the previous program while incorporating important program enhancements including: extending the range of capacity-building resources for program beneficiaries; an integrated approach to meeting the human resource capacity needs of stakeholders; stronger regional engagement and targeting of program resources to sub-national institutions in support of GOI decentralisation objectives.
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