Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Results from the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS)–Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) research initiative dubbed “Support for Local Governments for Environmental Management in Southeast Asia Project” highlight how vulnerability mapping can help improve local government responses to climate change.
The urgent need for micro data to identify poverty conditions initially emerged from the high rate of program undercoverage and leakage that occurred in several poverty reduction programs in Indonesia. In additon, the decentralization era in Indonesia requires that local officials own disaggregated data for policy intervention.
This edition of the SMERU Newsletter presents summaries, analysis, and opinion on the implementation of the BOS Program based on the results of the rapid appraisal of The SMERU Research Institute on the implementation of the BOS Program during the first semester of the 2005/2006 academic year. This edition is also enriched with the contributions of guest writers.
Why must an exit strategy be considered? The lack of an exit strategy may result in inefficient use of resources and in the end may mean that the activity fails to empower its target group.
This data on health sector trends is based on the Susenas dataset of 1995-2006, which was collected by Statistics Indonesia (BPS).
