Data Collection Survey on Achievement of Japanese Official Development Assistance to Indonesia

Narrative description of Project:

There has been economic cooperation between Japan and the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesia) for more than 50 years since 1954 when Japanese Government received 15 trainees from Indonesia. For Indonesia, Japan has been the largest bilateral donor country; it provided the Official Development Assistance (ODA), amounting to a cumulative total of US$29.5 billion as of 2006. Also for Japan, Indonesia has been the largest recipient country. The fact indicates important and firm relationship of Indonesia and Japan.Along with the increasing concern of people over accountabilities of ODA, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has conducted many evaluation studies at program- and project-level especially since the late 1990s.These studies have, however, focused on rather short- and mid-term results of the ODA activities. They have not sufficiently answered to one simple and fundamental question: how Japanese ODA activities have contributed to the developments of Indonesia in long-term.JICA has launched this survey in an effort to answer this question. The specific objectives of the survey are as follows:1) Review the Japanese ODA activities in the past 50 year ODA activities and analyze their contributions to economic and social developments of Indonesia, with special reference to ODA Loan, Grant Assistance, and Technical Assistance,2) Conduct case-studies on some major cooperation activities under the Japanese ODA,3) Prepare reports and brochures for promoting people’s understandings on the significance of the cooperation between Indonesia and Japan.

Description of actual services provided in the assignment:

1) Organize a survey team

2) Conduct sector survey and case-studies on the sectors in charge

3) Analyze results of surveys and find the meaning of Japanese ODA to the development of Indonesia

4) Prepare report and brochure.

Name of senior regular full-time employees1 of your firm involved and functions performed: Jinichiro Yabuta (Team Leader), Hiroo Okuda (Deputy Team Leader).

Approx. value of the services provided by your firm under the contract: US$ 753,302; JPY68,844,300

Client: JICA  Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Duration of assignment (months): 9.0 months

Total No of person-months of the assignment: 26.33 M/M

No of professional man-months provided by your firm (in the case of joint venture): 18.33 M/M

No of professional man-months provided by the joint venture partners or Sub-Consultants: 8.00 M/M