Baseline Assessment on Women's Accessibility to Public Services (Banten Province) : Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public Service and Providers

Abstract

One objective of decentralization is to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity, accessibility, and responsiveness of public service delivery. But up to now, various service pictures show how women have more limited access to good public services. Maternal, infant, and children under 5 mortality rates in Indonesia are among the highest in South East Asia region. There are 307 maternal deaths per 1000 births, due to any birth complications. It means that two mother die every two hours. There are 46 children of 1000 children die before they celebrate their 5th birthday. It means that 225,000 children die every year, and 25 children under 5 die every hour. Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public Service and Providers (MSIB-LPSP) is program that having purpose to improve institutional management of population/ civil administration service at Serang District, of water service and of public hospital health service at Cilegon city. To make MSIB-LPSP program brings improvement on gender equality in accessing public service, the program need empiric findings on women and men access toward population/ civil administration, water, and health service. The baseline assessment is MSIB-LPSP supporting research to provide such empirical findings.