Activities by Province - East Nusa Tenggara (NTT)

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I. Education and Training

Australian Development Scholarships (ADS)

AusAID provides more than A$30 million per annum for 300 awards for Indonesian students to study in Australia under the Australian Development Scholarships (ADS) program. Scholarships are available to applicants from both the private and public sector. An additional 600 scholarships over two years have just been made available under the recently announced Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development.

Three candidates have been selected for the 2005/6 ADS awards intake. The ADS 2006/7 applications are currently open. Applications close on 9 September 2005. The selection of candidates will be undertaken in January 2006.

More information on the ADS program can be viewed through the internet on www.adsjakarta.or.id

Indonesia-Australia Specialised Training Project Phase III (IASTP III)

The A$62.5 million Indonesian-Australia Specialized Training Project (IASTP) April 2004 to December 2008 supports specialized training and capacity building initiatives. The Project has strong backing from the Government of Indonesia with inputs estimated at around A$8 million.

The Project goals are to:

Promote good governance through improved economic management, governance practices and delivery of basic social services at central and provincial levels.
Focus activities on eight selected areas in the Eastern Provinces including NTB.
Target beneficiaries who are mid-career, middle level professionals across three sectors: government agencies, non-government organizations, and industry.
Is designed to enhance the skills of individuals who can also improve the performance of employing organizations.

IASTP has the capacity to deliver nearly 200,000 participant days of training. Around 70% of participant days relate to in-Indonesia training and 30% in-Australia training.

NTT Primary Education Partnership

In 2000, the Government of Indonesia and the Government of Australia agreed to a basic education program in Nusa Tenggara Timur Province. The program, known as the Nusa Tenggara Timur Primary Education Partnership (NTT PEP), commenced in April 2002 and was scheduled for completion in 2008.

The Partnership targeted three districts on the island of Flores - Ende, Ngada, and Sikka. In the first two years, Partnership activities were based in Ngada, while one adviser was located in Ende, implementing preparatory activities in the districts of Ende and Sikka.

Following the review in August 2003, there has been a number of significant changes in the basic principles and practices of the Partnership implementation. The Partnership is currently in the redesign process, and the second phase is expected to start in May 2004.

For the second phase in 2004, the Partnership's goal is to support the introduction of sustainable improvements in the quality of education within Grades 1-3 in line with Indonesian primary educational and administrative reforms. The Partnership will develop and implement improved classroom practice, school and community-based management, and supportive district and sub-district educational management.

The Partnership has four interrelated components:

Classroom teaching and learning;
Effective, transparent and participatory school management;
System support and policy implementation;
Partnership management, coordination and monitoring.

A number of major achievements have been acknowledged, including greater community participation in the education management processes in the school level, greater commitment among the district governments, behavioral changes in the classroom and community levels, and establishment and ongoing development of transparent and accountable selection procedures for the professional development programs.

UNICEF Creating Learning Communities for Children (CLCC)

In 1999, the Ministry of National Education, UNESCO and UNICEF jointly developed Creating Learning Communities for Children (CLCC) as a model to improve the quality of primary education in a decentralised environment.

The CLCC programme has three core components: a) active, joyful and effective learning (AJEL); b) school-based management (SBM); and c) community participation. All three components are purposefully linked and directed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms. A fourth component, Advocacy and Model Dissemination, links the CLCC model to policy formulation, and promotes its widespread dissemination and adoption. The fifth component is Programme Management and Coordination, which is important in a large and multi-level programme such as CLCC.

CLCC is currently working across 41 districts in nine provinces in Indonesia. Starting in 2004, the Australian Government provides A$ 5 million over three years, to support CLCC activities in thirteen districts in seven provinces, including Sumba Barat district.

II. Humanitarian and Emergency Assistance

Since late 1999, Australia has committed more than A$13.5 million in relief assistance to support refugees and host communities in NTT through UN Agencies and local and international NGOs. This has included support to UNDP, UNHCR, IOM and WFP through the Solution to East Timorese Refugees' (SETR) consolidated appeal in 2002, as follows:

WFP Food Aid for Repatriation of Refugees (A$750,000)
UNHCR Information Campaign (A$206,000)
UNDP Special Funds (A$2 million)
IOM Repatriation (A$3.2 million)

In August 2003, Australia approved a package of A$10 million to support the 2003 UN Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for Indonesia. Within the package the following projects are supported:

A$670,530 education project through Save the Children UK for the provision of outreach schools for continuation of study for primary school students in West Timor until May 2004.
A$333,700 to SCF-UK for the implementation of ENACT (Engaging Children and Youth in Building New Communities) project to complement the emergency education project in West Timor, Maluku, North Maluku and West Kalimantan.

In response to widespread food insecurity in NTT, in particular West Timor, CARE Australia received A$373,415 to support the provision of therapeutic foods (sugar), dry skim milk and medicines for severely and moderately malnourished children treatment in Belu, TTU and TTS districts of West Timor. The West Timor Nutritional Emergency Feeding Project, implemented through CARE Australia affiliate in Indonesia - CARE International, is scheduled to complete in July 2004.

Further support to West Timor is through CAP 2004 for the second Phase of SCF-UK's program for Outreach Schools and ENACT!.

III. Civil Governance

Australian Community Development and Civil Society Strengthening Scheme (ACCESS)

The Australian Community Development and Civil Society Strengthening Scheme (ACCESS) is a continuation of the Indonesia Australia Small Activities Scheme (IASAS), which was an integral part of Australia's official bilateral assistance to Indonesia. Like IASAS, ACCESS is AusAID's vehicle for support of NGOs/CSOs which began in February 2002 for 5 years program.

ACCESS aims to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and the strengthening of civil society within the sectoral and geographic focus of AusAID in Indonesia by providing grants and capacity building for community led development.

The project will focus on four target areas, NTT, NTB, South Sulawesi and South East Sulawesi with 75% of funds being allocated to these areas. The remaining 25% of funds will be allocated to other parts of Indonesia.

IV. Health

Women’s Health and Family Welfare Project (WHFW)

This A$27.8 million project is the second phase of the Women's Health and Family Planning Project, which was implemented between 1995 - 1998. An inception stage of the project commenced in January 2000 and concluded in June 2001, followed by an interim stage from July 2001 to April 2002 The implementation phase which commenced in July 2002 will run for 4 years until March 2006.

The goal of the project is to contribute to improved health of women and children in the provinces of NTT and NTB. The particular contribution of the project in this phase to the goal of improving maternal and child health is set out in the purpose: To enable GOI agencies and the local community to work together in partnership in identifying and responding to problems of maternal & neonatal health and underlying gender issues.

This approach builds on the approach of Phase I which focused on improvements in the quality and coverage of services, but it has increased emphasis on capacity building and on community participation.

In NTT, the project is based in Maumere, Flores with a sub office in Kupang. The project operates in all six districts of Flores: Manggarai, Ende, Ngada, Flotim, Sikka and Lembata. The project has four interrelated components:

Women’s Health Services, which will assist the GOI to improve the quality and accessibility of health care for women and their newborn infants in NTT and NTB,
Promotion of Family Planning and Safe Motherhood, which will improve the knowledge, attitudes and health seeking behavior of men and women for safer motherhood and family welfare, and the quality of family planning services, consistent with Australian Population Guidelines,
Community Participation, which will promote and facilitate community responses to safer motherhood,
Project Management and Integration, which will provide effective and efficient project coordination and management including integration of component activities with each other, with national and local systems and with other donors.

The GOI counterparts are the Ministry of Health and the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN). The provincial and district counterparts are: Bappeda (Regional Planning & Development Board), Dinas Kesehatan (Provincial & District Health Services), Kanwil BKKBN (Regional Office of BKKBN) and BPM/BPMD (Provincial & District Community Development Agency).

Indonesia HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project (IHPCP) Phase 2

Building on the achievements of Phase I (1995 – 2002) the Phase II Project (2002-2007) works collaboratively and flexibly and contribute to coordinated support for the national response to HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.

The A$34 milion Project is executed by Kementerian Koordinator Bidang Kesejahteraan Rakyat Republik Indonesia through the Komisi Penanggulangan AIDS (KPA) or National AIDS Commission.

The Project works at the national, provincial and district levels in Bali, Sulawesi Selatan, Nusa Tenggara Timur, DKI Jakarta, Papua and West Java.

The Project supports a range of activities undertaken by collaborating Indonesian partner agencies from government and civil society focusing on:

Policy and advocacy
Management and coordination
Surveillance and research
Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV
Prevention of IDU transmission of HIV
Improving access to a comprehensive range of care, support and treatment services for people who have HIV or AIDS
Monitoring and evaluation

V. Poverty Reduction

Australia - Nusa Tenggara Assistance for Regional Autonomy (ANTARA) Program

In line with the Australia-Indonesia Development Cooperation Strategy (2003 onwards), the Australia- Nusa Tenggara Assistance for Regional Autonomy (ANTARA) Program is an innovative, flexible program aimed at reducing poverty in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). This will be achieved through a longer-term commitment to sustainable and equitable social and economic development by improving regional and provincial governance, improving the quality of and access to essential services and increasing peri-urban and rural incomes.

ANTARA will operate initially over five years (2004-2009), with funding of up to A$30 million. It is anticipated that a second phase of ANTARA assistance will be required post-2009, given the scale of the development challenges faced by these provinces. ANTARA will commence in NTT, with a base in Kupang, West Timor, and will be extended progressively into NTB.

The goal of the ANTARA Program is to reduce poverty in NTT and NTB through sustainable and equitable social and economic development.

The ANTARA Program objectives are to:

improve provincial and district governance
improve peri-urban and rural income, and
improve access to and quality of delivery of basic services

Development Cooperation Section
Australian Embassy

This page was last updated on 12 July 2005