Better Approaches to Service Provision through Inreased Capacities in Sulawesi (BASICS)

Funding Agency : Canadian International Development Agency

Indonesian Partner : Ministry of Home Affairs - Centre for the Administration of Foreign Cooperation

Contact : Nuryanto

Location of Project : Southeast Sulawesi and North Sulawesi

Executing Agency : Cowater International

Liaison Office : Jl. DR. Ratulangi No. 102 Makassar Phone : 0411 - 854446

Contact : Bill Duggan (Program Director) e-mail address : bduggan@gmail.com

Description :

The project focuses primarly at the district/city level to assist government and/or legislative councils to adapts to their new roles and responsibilities to plan and budget appropriately for the delivery of social services. At the provioncial level, it supports the porvincial government to provide improve guidence, support and supervision to the districts/cities within their jurisdiction. At both the district/city and provincial levels, the project assists in strengthening selected civil society entities in Sulawesi to be able to input to government planning and budgeting processes, and to develop their skills as technical services provider for local government. At the national level, the project may assist the ministry of Home Affairs and the Directorate General of Regional Autonomy to socialize and possibly pilot, in the BASICS sites, its forthcoming ministerial decree on integrated planning and budgeting and the forthcoming National Framework for Capacity Development in Support of Decentralization. The BASICS Responsive Initiative (BRI) will form one component of the project  and will be available to participating district/city government with incentives to strengthen/reform their planning and budgeting practices in order to provide more responsive and accountable social services. This component will be in allignment with national policies and mechanisms to reduces MDG gaps, and to meet minimum Services Standars (MMS).

Goal/Purpose : To assist Indonesia in improving the quality of decentralized social services in an equitable and gender sensitive manner.

Expected Results :

• District/city governments and legislative councils develop and implement plans and budgets leading to more responsive pro poor, gender-based and environmentally sustainable MDG/MSS-based social service provision;
• Provincial and national government in the planning and budgeting proces for MDG/MSS-based social service provision;
• Civil Society, including women's groups, input to government planning and budgeting processes for MDG/MSS-based social service provision, and provide technical servioces to regional governments;
• Gender equality and environmental sustainability knowledge, analytical skills and systems are incorporate into the planning and budgeting processes for MDG/MSS-based social service provision.