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Summary of publication
At the halfway point of the five-year Australia Indonesia Partnership for Decentralisation (AIPD) program, this report takes stock of progress over the last six months and back to the beginning of the program and lays a management strategy for the remaining two-and-a-half years.
Progress toward the end-of-program outcome is slow but showing some positive trends. Analysis of end-of-program indicator trends shows that the AIPD needs to focus more heavily on budget quality, and redirect resources toward areas with a weaker baseline. Signs of emerging outcomes are evident, such as the timely approval of annual budgets, the functioning of procurement units, and the breakthrough of public access to information reforms. A number of civil society networks
have started to use their improved knowledge, skills and networking, for advocacy, to participate in the planning and budgeting process and to monitor resource allocation and service delivery.