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Lesson
Well-conceived and structured TA associated with the program addressed the obstacles presented by system inefficiencies and limited capacity. Survey data and other forms of monitoring can be subject to local manipulation by incumbents and unintended beneficiaries. A related problem is rent-seeking in local agencies and the government can similarly distort monitored data, and misdirect public transfer payments and other benefits.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
The complication arose from the government’s decision, during SP2, to inject the other half of the anticipated policy output units into the subprogram, by extending it by another 5 months. This put considerable work and budget pressure on the project team. And that may have been a factor in the inability to fully achieve several output actions in time for this report.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
The interim restructuring of the program, at the request of the government, lowered the total program cost to the government. It also put greater emphasis on the program’s design features than on embedding the program deeper within public institutions. This may have been fiscally expedient but will have long-term costs that are hard to measure now. The government may have employed the program’s national consultants after it decided to fund SP2 and SP3, but ADB is unlikely to receive information on the results.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
Better coordination with Australian Aid was an explicit part of the PRMAP from the beginning. Adjustments to ADB’s country strategy and the design of follow-on programs may be better informed if there is sharing of information during and after each intervention.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
Policy reforms, coupled with institutional measures to address system inefficiencies and capacity constraints, enhance the effectiveness of human development interventions.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millenium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
Accurate baseline data and consistently measurable indicators enable a reliable assessment of end−of−project accomplishments.

Project Number: 40003-013
Project Name: Poverty Reduction and Millenium Development Goals Acceleration Program
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Lesson
Decentralization of basic education can be bolstered through strong collaboration between MORA and MONE. To address the structural misalignment between MONE and MORA, the role of provincial governments in decentralized basic education should be strengthened, particularly in monitoring and evaluation. The Indonesian government appears to be moving toward intensifying the delegation of authority to provincial governments in basic education.

Project Number: 31137-013
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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Lesson
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.

Project Number: 31137-013
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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Lesson
Good technological infrastructure at the school and district levels can help address concerns about data management. MONE has implemented the Dapodik online school database system. Schools are required regularly to submit data to this system. However, many schools do not have access to the internet to accomplish this task. School staff must also be capacitated to utilize this online database effectively. 102.

Project Number: 31137-013
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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Lesson
Flexible management by the government and ADB allowed a complex project to be implemented successfully in a rapidly changing environment. Good communication from the project management team, together with flexible support from ADB, allowed project implementation to adapt to the changing legal and administrative environment while retaining the basic project rationale and objectives. ADB project supervision would have been enhanced if there had been greater continuity of project officers.

Project Number: 31137-013, 31137-032
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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Lesson
An important lesson is the importance of integrating project funds and activities into government processes, wherever possible. The separation of Decentralized Basic Education Project funds for districts from district government budget mechanisms weakened the link between district education development plans and the annual budgeting process, and made district capacity building less effective.

Project Number: 31137-013, 31137-032
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The project framework was not stressed sufficiently by ADB during loan implementation. As a result, the government and the central facilitation unit were not fully aware of all of the objectives of the project. Further, as district project management teams were under considerable political pressure to accelerate the implementation of project activities, the project came to be viewed primarily as a funding mechanism and the emphasis on district capacity development tended to be lost.

Project Number: 31137-013, 31137-032
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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Lesson
The project supported the development of district-based education information systems to strengthen district-based planning. Although most districts were still producing annual education statistics, there is room to improve data quality and the use of data in planning and management. Central Ministry of National Education maintains education statistics for the provinces; in the districts, all data are accessible through the districts themselves.

Project Number: 31137-013, 31137-032
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
Report Date:
Lesson
The experience of the project indicates the importance of systematic record keeping in addition to ongoing monitoring and evaluation. Although implementation was generally satisfactory, there was poor documentation and recording at the central and district levels of activities and updated data relating to project activities, output, and outcomes.

Project Number: 31137-013, 31137-032
Project Name: Decentralized Basic Education Project
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