Effective capacity building efforts are contingent on consistent supervision and support. High staff turnover among ADB’s project officers and district governments tended to hamper effective communication and rapport-building among stakeholders. Consequently, this disrupted efforts to promote decentralized basic education management. Means of effective transfer and sharing of knowledge through, for instance, continued training are imperative. For ADB’s part, increasing the role of the Indonesia Resident Mission to include project management and monitoring responsibilities could have helped address project implementation issues. As discussed earlier, the project was managed directly from ADB’s headquarters in Manila. Moreover, ADB could have exerted greater efforts in disseminating knowledge products to further promote the sharing of lessons learned and best practices in decentralized basic management to other Indonesian provinces or countries similarly endeavoring to decentralize basic education delivery and management.
Decentralized Basic Education Project