The report outlines progress with the implementation of the Jakarta Commitment during the year 2009.

As it did not participate in the 2006 round of monitoring, the 2008 survey establishes Indonesia’s baseline and targets under the Paris Declaration.  The survey produced mixed results.  Indonesia scored well on alignment with country priorities and systems, but has yet to engage strongly on managing for results and mutual accountability.

The Jakarta Commitment: Aid for Development Effectiveness is a road map for the Government of Indonesia and its development partners to implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action in Indonesia by 2014.

The Jakarta Commitment: Aid for Development Effectiveness is a road map for the Government of Indonesia and its development partners to implement the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action in Indonesia by 2014.

This paper presents the lessons learned from 22 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America (including Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sri Lanka) from piloting the OECD-DAC’s new Methodology for the Assessment of National Procurement Systems.  The lessons learned cover the process of preparing and planning a procurement assessment, implementation, making use of the assessment for strengthening country systems, procurement capacity development and linkages with public financial management reforms.

Part of a larger study on what works in capacity development, this case study examines how the Takalar district in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, tackled rural poverty through participatory development and community empowerment methodologies, in partnership with JICA. The district sought to change its methods of promoting local development by helping communities help themselves during a period of decentralisation in Indonesia. This involved extensive changes in attitudes and mindset. The project engaged in extensive social systems research in order to design an appropriate delivery method.

This paper is a report of a Workshop on Aid Effectiveness and Gender Equality in South East Asia, Bangkok, April 2007. It presents lessons from case studies in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Timor Leste. Workshop participants questioned how far the cause of gender equality is owned within most Asian societies and government. They called for more research and evidence on gender issues, including gender-disaggregated development statistics. The workshop concluded that (contrary to the views of many women's NGOs) the Paris Declaration is a potentially useful framework for making aid work better for women. However, some of the changes associated with the Paris agenda, such as the reduction in donor staff capacity associated with the shift to programmatic spending and the diversion of effort into technical aid-delivery issues, have reduced the space for gender work. Aid efficiency arguments tend to favour large programmes over small targeted interventions with civil society that may have greater impact on gender.