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Annual Report 2003 : Moving the Poverty Reduction Agenda Forward: Priorities and Outcomes

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Indonesia

Strategy and Policy Dialogue.
The 2002 CSP addressed the mediumterm needs of the economy and called for reducing poverty and regional inequality by improving governance, meeting local needs through decentralization, promoting human development, mainstreaming environmental management, promoting sustainable use of natural resources, and raising longterm growth prospects. That focus continued in 2003 and will remain in the 2004–2006 pipeline. Coordination with multilateral agencies was critical to meeting ADB’s strategic objectives.

As a key development partner, ADB worked with the Government on several crosscutting issues and various sector priorities. Governance, aid effectiveness, and decentralization received ADB support. Support for governance was wide-ranging, from public accountability and transparency to various aspects of corporate and financial governance. ADB chaired the donor working group on aid effectiveness where the focus was on basic issues such as needs assessments for external loans and also complex issues covering the effectiveness of project design and implementation. Indonesia’s decentralization program had implications for the delivery of public services. ADB was actively involved in policy dialogue to ensure adequate capacity in service delivery. Sector-specific policy dialogue focused on meeting the MDGs in health and education and on promoting structural reforms in the corporate and financial sectors. In particular, emphasis was on the need for a conducive policy and investment environment for private sector development.

Loans and Technical Assistance.
Six loans totaling $261.6 million were approved for the irrigation sector, for decentralized health services, and for neighborhood upgrading and shelter. Twenty technical assistance projects totaling $12.5 million were approved.

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