For many years Indonesia has assisted many countries through training program. Despite the continuous effort from the Government of
Indonesia to improve the quality of the training through evaluation meeting and questionnaire to the participants, the Government of
Indonesia feels that it is necessary to develop an evaluation mechanism for all the training. By having an evaluation mechanism,
Government of Indonesia can measure the success level of a training and will have more inputs to make the quality of the program
higher.

In line with that spirit, Government of Indonesia and Japan International Cooperation Agency held a workshop on evaluation
mechanism of Indonesia South-South Cooperation Training Program in 3rd December 2010 in the Ministry of State Secretariat. The
workshop result gave more stressing to the need of an evaluation mechanism which will be used by all implementing organization, not
only JICA supported training.

One month after the workshop, the Indonesian delegation attended the training for South-South Cooperation Quality Improvement. The
Indonesian delegation consisted of Mr. Meri Binsar Simorangkir (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Mr. Amri Kusumawardana (Ministry of State
Secretariat) and Ms. Lingga Kartika (JICA Indonesia). The delegation action plan’s is to develop an evaluation mechanism. Thus, in line with the need to improve the quality of SSC, Indonesia proposed JICA to support the development of evaluation mechanism. The proposal was granted and the program started from July to November 2011.

The Government of Indonesia and JICA agreed to select the Institute of Economic and Social Research – University of Indonesia (LPEM UI) as the consultant with assistance from Mr. Takehiro Iwaki. The team gathered information from many stakeholders such as: Ministry of State Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of National Development Planning and various implementing agencies.

LPEM UI’s proposal met the expectation of the Government of Indonesia to measure the training evaluation by using DAC criteria on
evaluation namely: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. These indicators will be the basis of evaluation
instrument development. There are three stages of evaluation Ex-ante, on-going and ex-post evaluation. Instruments and evaluation criteria
will be used in those stages. The formulation of evaluation mechanism is expected to be finished in November 2011 and can be used in
next year’s training program.