Indonesia Australia Specialised Training Project Phase 3 (IASTP 3)

Background

The Indonesia Australia Specialised Training Project (IASTP) contributes to promoting good governance through improved economic management, improved governance practices and the enhanced delivery of basic social services (health and education) consistent with Indonesia's development needs and priorities.

It provides specialised short-term training and capacity building initiatives at the central, provincial and district levels, mainly in Eastern Indonesia.

Description

IASTP III provides specialised and capacity building training to create a strongly integrated training model unique to Indonesia. Action plans are the key mechanism used to align training with organisational planning and organisational change. Mentors provide a vital link between the project and Indonesian Government agencies, and are actively involved in each stage of the training cycle. Capacity building training is designed to enhance the skills and abilities of mentors.

Courses cover subjects as diverse as district and provincial planning, district and provincial economic planning, small enterprise trade and export promotion, economic governance, public accountability, human rights, women's empowerment and mainstreaming, environmental law, local parliamentary procedures drafting, journalism, legal development, IAINS teacher development, HIV/AIDS with a focus on drug abuse prevention/intervention, basic health service management, basic education services and the training cycle.

Partnerships between sub-contracted Australian and Indonesian training providers are strongly encouraged, and the project designs and delivers training courses that specialise in gender awareness, mainstreaming and analysis. Indonesian Government partners, other stakeholders and provincial decision makers are involved in development, delivery and monitoring.

Further information on IASTP III and each year's training program can be found at www.iastp.org.

Achievements/outcomes

• Upgrading the knowledge and skills of mid-career, middle-level professionals in the public, non-government and private sectors through the provision of over 1000 training courses and 200,000 total participant training days in Indonesia or Australia from July 2004 to December 2008.
• Incorporating good governance, gender and change management into all training programs, and making the modules publicly available.
• Assisting other projects as well as providing one-off courses to meet emerging training needs.
• Assisting the Province of Bali's medical, health and emergency services to better coordinate disaster and emergency relief, which helped improve the response to the second Bali bombing.
• Training 240 government officials in Aceh to help them develop strategic plans and budgets to meet local and central reporting and financial requirements.
• Assisting 22 Aceh land mappers refine and improve land mapping skills and graduate with formally accredited train-the-trainer skills, thus broadening the land mapping skill base within Aceh communities.
• Working in collaboration with Provincial Diklats in selected Eastern Province locations to better support decentralisation and strengthen capacity.
• Undertaking a training provider survey, to better inform and improve tendering opportunities and processes with resultant information made available to assist other AusAID-funded projects.
• Participants from Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance and BAPPENAS, China’s Ministry of Finance and National Development and Reform Commission and Australia’s Treasury attended a fiscal management training course. The course had the dual purpose of teaching fiscal management skills and establishing relationships between the personnel of agencies responsible for fiscal management in Australia, Indonesia and China.
• Ministry of Women’s Empowerment personnel have received gender mainstreaming training both in Indonesia and in Australia through IASTP. This training has enabled the Ministry to fulfil its mandate as the agency responsible for reporting to the President on the progress of gender mainstreaming across the GoI.
• In cooperation with the AusAID-funded Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Program (IASTP), DG Tax has been able to introduce and educate over 800 staff members in regional offices throughout Indonesia about the existence and operation of a Code of Conduct for DG Tax staff.

This page was last updated on 22 May 2007

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