1. The Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDGs 3
2010 Development Cooperation Forum
Helsinki, Finland
The Impact of Development Cooperation in Reaching MDGs 3
Presented by: Hon. Dr. Nurhayati Ali Assegaf, M.Si., MP
First Vice President of Coordinating Committee of the Meeting of Women and Peace of Inter-Parliamentary Union
Vice Chair-Person of Committee for Inter Parliementary Cooperation of
The House of Representatives of Republic Indonesia

2. MDGs 3: Development Cooperation, Challenges and Solutions
In this Presentation:
Critical Issues and Commitments
Indicators of the Achievement of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Program
Problem of Tracking the Impact of Development Assistance on Gender Equality
Addressing a Lack of Relevant Sex-Disaggregated Statistics
Good Practices: Indonesia Central Bureau of Statistic
Practical Requirements of Gender Consideration into New Aid Delivery Mechanism
The Most Pressing Requirements to Develop Capacity for Gender Responsive Aid Strategies and Management Practices
Immediate Action Agenda Needed in the Future

3. Asia-Pacific Challenges
Critical Issue:
Asia-Pacific Challenges
Traditional gender norms, stereotypes, and practices.
Employment, Migration and displacement
Globalization and regional integration
Laws and policies supporting gender equality
Regional diversity

4. Commitments At National Level:
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Empowerment in all development plannings at ministerial level.
Affirmative policies and programmes on education for girls and women.
Promote and ensure Equality of Laws for Men and Women, esp on:
Equality in Job Opportunities, Wages, Rights for Maternity Leave.
Property Rights: Land, Property.
Protection against Domestic Violence.
Rearrange and establish institutional arrangements to accomodate and supervise gender issues, ex. National Commission against Violence.
Indonesia has several legislation which can be considered as “best practices” in gender advocation:
- The Law No. 12 Year 2006 regarding Nationality
- The Law No. 21 Year 2007 regarding Criminal Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
- The Law No. 23 Year 2004 regarding Elimination of Domestic Violence
- The Law No. 21 Year 2002 and The Law No. 10 Year 2008 regarding General Election which is related to women’s quota in parliament
At Regional Level:
Cooperation in policy making, higher education, legal protection

5. Indicators for The Achievement of Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Program
Many indicators can be used to reflect the achievement of gender equality and women empowerment program, among others are:
Number and ratio of new jobs for women to new job for men, by sector and industry;
Proportion of women in formal sector and self-employment;
Proportion of women-owned sole proprietorship;
Number of sexuality education classes conducted in school;
Number of cases of violence against women reported to police;
Proportion of the population that knows violence against women is a crime;
Number and size of women’s quotas in national parliament;
Proportion of the national budget devoted to gender equality and empowerment;
Etc.

6. Problems of Tracking the Impact of Development Assistance on Gender Equality
Relevant and accurate statistics are believed to serve as a determining factor in tracking the impact of development assistance on gender equality;
Gender mainstreaming and women empowerment process has been hampered by a lack of relevant sex-disaggregated statistics. 6

7. Addressing a Lack of Relevant Sex-Disaggregated Statistics
Considering that the role of statistics in tracking the impact of development assistance on gender equality and women’s empowerment is indispensable, we believe that it is vital to invest in not only government capacity to collect and analyze gender sensitive information but also in civil society’s capacity. 7

8. Good Practices: The Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Indonesian National Statistics Bureau is a non-departmental government institution which directly reports to the Indonesian President;
The Bureau’s main function is to provide data to the government and public. The data are derived from the Bureau comprehensive statistical activities, consisting of periodic information on structure and growth of economy, social change, and development;
In regard to the Indonesia’s achievements on MDGs, the Bureau provides such statistics as Infant Mortality Rate, Mortality Ratio for Mothers in Labor, Ratio of Girls to Boys Enrolled in Education, Maternal Mortality Ratio, etc. 8

9. Good Practices: The Indonesian Donor Harmonization and Aid Effectiveness (1)
As a signatory to Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the Government of Indonesia and its development partners signed Jakarta Commitment: Aid for Development Effectiveness – Indonesia’s Roadmap to 2014.
Recognizing the achievement of MDGs, improvement of public service deliveries and decentralization as main key development challenges, the Government takes a leading role to optimize the effectiveness of aid in supporting development priorities set by the Government. 9

10. Good Practices: The Indonesian Donor Harmonization and Aid Effectiveness (2)
Jakarta Commitment consist of key principles to be followed gradually by multilateral/donor agencies:
Strengthening Country Ownership of Development, including aligning with government priorities, use of improved country and governance systems.
Effective and Inclusive Partnerships for Development, including for new aid instruments and South-South Cooperation.
Delivering and Accounting for Development Results including to harmonize monitoring and evaluation systems and institutions between the Government’s and Partners’. 10

11. 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
OWNERSHIP
PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 1
National Development Strategies and Budgetary Process
which includes gender Equality goals and targets based on indicators
ALIGNMENT
MUTUAL
ACCOUNTABILITY
PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 2
Capacity Building of national ministries to
Mainstream gender budget initiative processes
Through multi-sectoral technical assistance to
Ministries in order to produce programmed
Based budgeting
PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 5
Increasing public access to information on
Policies based not only on development results
But also those accountable for providing the
policies
HARMONIZATION
MANAGING FOR
RESULTS
PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 3
Shifts from projects based approaches to
Programmed-based approaches as a way to
Include gender-responsive results in programmed
Plans and integrate gender-responsive
budgeting principles into budget processes
PRACTICAL REQUIREMENTS 4
Gender-responsive planning and performance
Based monitoring with harmonized, gender
Indicators, through improved collection and
Analysis of sex-disaggregated data 11

12. The Most Pressing Requirements to Develop Capacity for Gender
Responsive Aid Strategies and Management Practices
Developing Capacities for
Gender-Responsive Aid Strategies
OWNERSHIP
ALIGNMENT
HARMONIZATION
MANAGING FOR
RESULTS
MUTUAL
ACCOUNTABILITY
Greater initiatives and
Role of Women in
Pursuing their needs
And seeking
responses
From policy-makers
Identification of Priority
Sectors in the
National development
Plans for technical
and institutional
Capacity building
Consensus between
Stakeholders in the
Development arena on
The importance of
Gender equality
Assessment
Frameworks which
Consist of a set of
Indicators that
Monitor national
Development strategies
which incorporate
Assessment tools
for gender equality
Accountability indicators
On the impact on gender
Equality on development
Spending at national and
Local levels are needed
In order to evaluate
The impact of aid on
Gender equality 12

13. Immediate Action Agenda Needed in the Future
To strengthen National Capacity-building to address capacity weakness through reforms within public sector institutions.
To ensure that sex-disaggregated data for policy making process, monitoring and evaluation are including in aid-funded programs.
To urge multilateral/donor agencies to explicitly mainstream gender perspectives and empowerment in all programs. 13

14. Thank You