Background
The role of Indonesia as a resource country for many Asian and African countries is increasing quite significantly. Many international short term trainings and long term scholarships have been done by Indonesia in various fields and have gained a lot of attention from the international community. Along with her positive economic growth, Indonesia is eager to strengthen er role in international development through international capacity development programs.
However, Indonesia mechanism to evaluate the impact of these international capacity development programs is not yet comprehensive. Questions such as ‘were they effective for the ex-trainees and their organizations,’ ‘was/is it relevant to the beneficiary country’s development policy,’ ‘has any output been sustained,’ etc. were recognized during JICA training on “Strengthening for Implementation Capability of Development Training under South-South Cooperation” in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2010. Various problems were identified and analyzed during the training program, and ideas for their solutions were presented. The bottom line of many recurring problems was that programs were done without evaluation so the lessons learnt were not extracted or utilized to solve the problems and make the programs better.
As a kick off to raise awareness about these issues and the need to conduct a comprehensive evaluation, a Workshop on Formulation of Evaluation Mechanism of International Capacity Development was conducted on 3rd December 2010. The workshop provided basic knowledge for Indonesian implementing agencies about evaluation and how it can function as a tool to develop their programs.
Resulting from this workshop, implementing agencies realized that Indonesia needs to formulate a guideline on evaluation mechanism to improve the quality of her international capacity development programs. Based on the workshop and the JICA Training in Japan in January 2010 and February 2011, Government of Indonesia approached JICA to support the formulation of this evaluation mechanism. Not only from JICA resources, the mechanism formulation expect involvements of other resources for Indonesia to gain wider perspectives.
In the future, the guideline on evaluation is expected to be an instrument to measure the success level of Indonesia’s international capacity development programs (trainings, scholarships, and expert assignment). By being able to measure the success level of the programs, Government of Indonesia will be able to design better programs, decide the continuity of certain programs, and provide better assistance schemes to the beneficiary countries in order to achieve their development goals. The guideline will be used by Indonesian implementing agencies which implement international capacity development programs.
Facilitator / Consultant
JICA shall appoint a consultant team led by national expert which will facilitate the evaluation guidelines formulation process. The consultant shall closely coordinate with the Government of Indonesia and the JICA expert.
The consultant should meet following requirements:
1. Expert in human resources and capacity development evaluation proven by rich portfolios in HR and CD related project.
2.Bilingual proficiency in Indonesian and English, spoken and written.
3.Have vast experience in working with Government Agencies.
4.Able to work under pressure and engage with multi stakeholders.
The consultant will facilitate Government of Indonesia and JICA Expert in formulating mechanism for capacity development evaluation guideline. Moderate, facilitate, supply the printed materials and arrange logistical issues in series of meeting (including workshop, focused group discussion, video conference, and launching event) and make comprehensive report which summarizes all discussions and conclusions.
Expected output of the consultant is a document which consists of evaluation mechanism on international capacity development for all stakeholders. The document consists listed below:
1.Urgency of evaluation in international capacity development
2.Evaluation methodology
3.Evaluation steps
4.Evaluation tools / instruments
5.Manual
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