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Lesson
It is important to target monitoring at end-state outcomes. Due to the lockdowns and mobility restrictions; early difficulty in the speed of PEN disbursements was unavoidable. Although the government recognized the need for urgent rollout; poor infrastructure raised the risk of leakage through corruption and led to a slower and more cautious approach than would otherwise have been optimal. A lesson to be drawn from the experience involves the need to target monitoring activities at end-state outcomes.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The urgency of the lending produced outcomes that, while unavoidable, are nevertheless instructive. For example, target setting was difficult because the contours of the pandemic were fluid. Liaising with the government was also challenging. The timeline for initial response was tight, and ADB worked with a small number of government teams in the interest of speed. This concentrated approach to planning was complicated by the pandemic affecting government officials’ health and well-being personally.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The program reinforced the need for flexible targeting in pandemic situations. The Indonesian government was quick to recognize the tension between sustaining economic activity and minimizing the spread of disease through physical distancing and quarantine. At times; the National Recovery Program (PEN) was modified to strike a better balance. For example; the government increased its support for ultra-microenterprises midway through the program; pivoting its assistance program to more than 1 million street vendors who were economically displaced by restrictions on mobility.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Lesson
Difficulties with data accentuated problems that included health targets, such as the vaccine rollout. Although testing rates had reached World Health Organization targets by August 2021, it was not clear that the national average testing rate applied uniformly at the provincial level.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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The crisis amplified the adverse, preexisting, and self-reinforcing relationship between public health and economic outcomes. This relationship should remain at the forefront of ADB’s engagement with Indonesia. COVID-19 takes a higher toll on individuals who suffer from stunting—a disease that is prevalent in Indonesia and closely associated with poverty.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Indonesia needs better interoperability among the tiers of its government. In relation to public health, the effectiveness of the government’s initial response to the pandemic was limited by conflicting approaches. The lack of coordination within government; as evidenced particularly by conflicting public messages around social distancing especially in the early stages of the pandemic. These coordination issues were more apparent in the vertical relations between tiers of government than at inter-ministerial levels.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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It is important to digitalize government services in times of crisis. This effort is best pursued through collaboration with the private sector in Indonesia. The collaboration can strengthen the country's defense against future outbreaks and improve the targeting of social assistance. Digitalization including ithe financial sector should remain a focal point of ADB’s policy dialogue with Indonesia.

Project Number: 54139-001
Project Name: COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program
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Complementarity and synergy strengthen the effectiveness of ADB interventions.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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Sustained policy dialogue and government commitment to reforms are crucial to the success of countercyclical support programs, while incorporating multiple drawdown triggers in the project design can help minimize the need for program extensions.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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Donor coordination and harmonization and collaborative parallel financing can strengthen the impact of countercyclical support measures.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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Countercyclical support programs, along with the proper use of the precautionary financing option, can be very effective in promoting sound fiscal and macroeconomic management during periods of heightened market turbulence.

Project Number: 46239-001
Project Name: Precautionary Financing Facility
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A functional management information system should have been developed in DGA (Directorate General of Aquaculture).

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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Use of voluntary extension workers recruited from local communities by district agencies will help ensure continuity of extension services to local project beneficiaries.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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Forming and strengthening cooperatives is a good strategy in sustaining project benefits after project completion.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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Gender mainstreaming through group formation and capacity building training programs in aquaculture production and food processing is an effective strategy in empowering women.

Project Number: 35183-013
Project Name: Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Food Security and Poverty Reduction Project
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