Indonesia is a rising powerhouse in Southeast Asia, committed to eradicating extreme poverty by 2024. While the country's poverty rate has declined to 1.1% in 2023, provinces like East Nusa Tenggara face higher rates, with extreme poverty affecting 3.9% of the population. Achieving this ambitious target requires improved data accuracy and program integration.
Our 2023 Social Entrepreneurship for the Nation (WiNNER) competition finalist, WeCare.id, is expanding its successful public-private partnership by signing an MOU to provide alternative financing for the district government of Manggarai Barat, East Nusa Tenggara province in Indonesia. WeCare.id is a social enterprise that provides accessible and affordable healthcare services through their crowdfunding platform. Their enterprise was a direct response to the chronic and recurrent child malnutrition affecting communities across Indonesia.
In 2023, we launched the Social Entrepreneurship for the Nation (WiNNER) competition to identify social enterprises that could engage and partner with subnational governments to address these continuing challenges. The competition was a collaboration between our USAID ERAT (Effective, Efficient, and Strong Governance) program and the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucracy Reform.
USAID highlighted ERAT's support of Indonesia's Barru District in their drive to achieve universal health coverage, naming ERAT a 2023–2024 Thinking and Working Politically Case Competition Winner.
Education is a fundamental right in Indonesia, but many children remain out of school and reintegration into the educational system is challenging. Innovative programs are crucial to break down barriers…
On November 14, 2023, the East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur, NTT) provincial government in Indonesia successfully launched its innovation hub, Lopo Inovasi Flobamorata. The Asia Foundation’s USAID ERAT (Effective,…
After the “big bang” of government decentralization in 2001, the national government of Indonesia transferred responsibility for many public services to district governments. Frontline health services, water and sanitation, nine…
Since launching in 2021, the USAID ERAT (Effective, Efficient, and Strong Governance) Program has been actively collaborating with the government of Indonesia to improve public service delivery. Now in the…
The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the International City/County Management Association, is implementing USAID ERAT (Effective, Efficient and Strong Governance) to support peer learning on stunting prevention among subnational governments…
To support Indonesian government efforts to promote innovations in regional governance and public service delivery, USAID ERAT (Effective, Efficient and Strong Governance) in partnership with the Ministry of Administrative and…