Publication: Case Study 4 - Indonesia : Participatory Approaches in Budgeting and Public Expenditure Management
Date
2003-03
ISSN
Published
2003-03
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Following a dramatic drop in per capita
GNP from US$ 1200 in early 1997 to US$ 680 in 1998, the
Indonesian government began implementing social safety net
(SSN) programs targeting the adversely affected - those who
became poor after the crisis and everyone already living in
poverty. These were aimed at supplementing their purchasing
power through the Special Market Operation (OPK) of
subsidized rice distribution, preserving access to critical
social services such as education through student
scholarships, and augmenting incomes through labor intensive
employment opportunities. To monitor the implementation of
these SSN programs and to provide donors and government with
qualitative information about the social impacts of the 1997
financial crisis, the World Bank formed the Social
Monitoring and Early Response Unit (SMERU) with major
assistance from AusAid, Asia-Europe Meeting Fund, and USAID.
SMERU has five different units with tasks of, i) building
local capacity for rapid assessments of potential
'danger' situations in the field, ii) forming a
network of networks of NGOs for information exchange at all
levels, iii) building capacity of communities to do their
own monitoring, iv) storing and analyzing quantitative and
qualitative data, and v) conducting a study on the impact of
provincial trade deregulation. CBM is thus just one of the
five units responsible for one of the core mandates of SMERU.
Citation
“World Bank. 2003. Case Study 4 - Indonesia : Participatory Approaches in Budgeting and Public Expenditure Management. Social Development Notes; No. 73. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/53f2e577-658c-583d-9b69-1e8925f26cd0 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”