Sustainable Capacity Building for Decentralization Project (SCBD-P) - Package C.2.54

Package C.2.54: Implementation of Capacity Building (CBAP) Tasikmalaya District Reward.

Name of Senior Professional staff (Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader) involved and functions performed:

Sunarno Agus Nusantoro- Project Director.

Zahir Zahri- Team Leader.

The Project will develop institutional capacity for 37 regional and 10 provincial governments within the ADB's geographical focus area, to increase their operational capability. The following principal project goals have been agreed between the Government of Indonesia as borrower and the Asian Development Bank as lender, and are fully consistent with the GoI’s National Policy context.

The objectives of the SCBD are:

(1) More efficient delivery of public services in accordance with minimum service standards of the Government of Indonesia;

(2) More effective maintenance of essential public facilities (e.g. health, education, water-supply, garbage collection disposal, flood control and drainage, etc);

(3) More efficient promotion of equitable economic development;

(4) More efficient management of poverty reduction programs.

The stated purposes of SCBD is to establish sustainable capacity building systems; facilitate necessary policy development and supporting actions at both central and local government levels; and support government in pursuit of measurable improvements in institutional capacity and core competencies, consistent with local development priorities.

The following specific outputs are mandated as sustainable instruments in the loan design;

(a) Local government strategies and Capacity Building Action Plans (CBAPs) to support sustainable institutional capacity building;

(b) Adequate staff capacity (operational clusters in key areas of activity) to meet the demands of decentralized government;

(c) Training systems, quality control and core curricula which meet the needs of decentralized local government,

(d) Gender mainstreaming programs to realize the potential productivity gains of gender equity policies, and

(e) Key supporting policies and actions to enable sustainable local capacity building programs to be introduced and maintained.

 The project activities are among others:

1. Each activity of CBAP implementation carried out by the consultant will follow a similar pattern of:

(i) Discussions on detailed specifications (updating and modifying ToR of each activity as necessary),

(ii) Undertaking services/works,

(iii) Reporting,

(iv) Completion/verification/invoicing;

2. The CB-AP Implementation Management Team will prepare detailed implementation program (including the approach and methodology to implement the CB-AP) in consultation with the local government.

The detailed implementation programs will be annexed to the Inception Report via a memorandum process.

The detailed implementation programs effectively become part of the ToR and the umbrella contract when the Inception Report is endorsed in writing by PIU.

After signature and approval, this detailed implementation plan fill in essential level of detail required to implement the contract.