This GTZ supported programme assists the Indonesia Ministry of Home Affairs as well as other responsible government agencies and the respective inter-ministerial teams in refining the legal framework for decentralization and local governance, and in providing decentralization-related information to interested stakeholders, among others through a regular newsletter and the project home page.
The project supports the management of implementing the decentralization policy by the responsible central government institutions. It supports the implementation of the “National Framework for Capacity Building to Support Decentralization”, and – through close linkages with technical assistance projects on local level – helps to communicate experiences and policy inputs from below to decision makers on national level. In the second half of 2003, a new component will be added to SfDM focusing on providing support to regions in the field of financial management.
Website includes their Decentralization Newsletter and a collection of online documents on decentralisation (from Indonesia and elsewhere)