*) 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.

The Government of Indonesia in collaboration with the Colombo Plan has organized a training course for Colombo Plan member states, namely “Capacity Building Program on Enhanching The Development of Small and Medium Industry” from 24 to  28 October 2016 in Bali. This program is implemented by Directorate General of Small and Medium Industry of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Indonesia. There are 19 participants who joined the course from 13 Colombo Plan member states: Bhutan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Papua Nugini, Malaysia, Laos, Thailand, Maldives, as well as Indonesia.