Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
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).
On March 12, 2008 the Government of Indonesia, along with nine other nations, announced the Bali Declaration. One aim of this declaration is to encourage an increase in teacher quality. The government’s seriousness to increase teacher capacity can be traced back a few years to 2004, to the signing of the declaration stating teachers are professional workers. In the following years, this commitment lead to various policies, such as Law No.
