Making development more effective in Indonesia
12 January 2009
DFID signs up to "Jakarta Commitments: Aid for Development Effectiveness"
On 12 January, DFID signed up to
a set of commitments that should strengthen the quality of international
assistance in Indonesia.
The "Jakarta Commitments" are a joint roadmap of actions for the Indonesian government and its partners to take to increase the impact of development activities on the lives of the country's poorest people
The commitments build upon Indonesia's involvement in the Accra Agenda for Action, the groundbreaking agreement secured last September at the major international summit on aid effectiveness held in Ghana. These new commitments focus on three areas:
- Strengthening country ownership over development
- Delivering better results and accounting for them more transparently
- Building a more inclusive and wide-ranging partnership for development.
Signing on behalf of DFID, Kenny Dick, Head of the Department's Indonesia office, said: "We like the commitments: they’re progressive, in line with international best practice, appropriate for a large emerging economy like Indonesia and we think they’ll make a difference."
Almost all development partners in Indonesia have signed up to the Jakarta Commitments. As 90% of DFID's portfolio in Indonesia is delivered through multilaterals, UK partners in the country have been asked to report on how they will progressively meet the Jakarta commitments through DFID-funded programmes.
