*) reported by Dina Aulia Sukma Ariana

As many as 7 participants have joined the International Comprehensive Right-based Family Planning Training 2016. The participants from 3 countries, including Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Timor Leste have been  experienced comprehensive of family planning lesson for 18 days. This training program held by the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and supported by the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) based on the Partnership Agreement between the GoI and UNFPA.  The program is also recognized as a part of UNFPA Country Strategy in Indonesia in which the Country Program Action Plan 2016 to 2020 signed by both parties on 29 March 2016.

*) Reported by Mukhammad Fahrurozi

Working Group 3 National Coordination Team of South-South Cooperation and Triangular (NCT-SSCT) together with Capacity Development Project, the Government of Japan/JICA is conducting Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Indonesia’s SSTC for members of NCT and certain Ministry/institution. The workshop  is conducted from 6 – 7 October in Bogor.

The guideline on evaluation mechanism for Indonesia’s International Capacity Building was developed by the Government of Indonesia, represented by the Ministry of State Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), and the Ministry of Finance with the support from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in March 2012.

It was highly expected that monitoring and evaluation activities would be conducted in wide range of Indonesia’s SSTC programs with leaderhsip of the National Coordination Team of SSTC (NCT), especially Working Group 3, in accordance with the guideline, and that this would result in the improved quality of each program.  However, the expected effects have not fully come out up to now, in spite that the guideline was disseminated to implementing agencies of SSTC programs through seminars and workshops.