UNDP Indonesia's mission is to be an agent for change in the human and social development of Indonesia. We aim to be a bridge between Indonesia and all donors as well as a trusted partner to all stakeholders. We work in four key areas of development: Governance Reforms, Pro-Poor Policy Reforms, Conflict Prevention and Recovery, and Environment Management, with the overarching aim of reducing poverty in Indonesia. Besides the four priority areas, UNDP Indonesia is also engaged in a variety of crosscutting initiatives focused on HIV/AIDS, gender equality, and information and technology for development.”
Indonesia has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in Asia. It is ranked fifth on the list of high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB), and has approximately 2,783,649 malaria sufferers (WHO 2011). Since 2003, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) has committed US$ 693,158,140 in funds to support Indonesia to combat AIDS, TB, and malaria, and to engage in Health System Strengthening (HSS). For the period of January 2014-2017, GFATM has allocated USD 302 M for Indonesia
The current signed grant agreement for Malaria and HSS will end in December 2014, followed by AIDS in June 2015, and TB in June 2016. In the meantime, in early 2014, the GFATM has launched the New Funding Model (NFM) that provides implementers with flexible timing, better alignment with national strategies and predictability on the level of funding available. This model is completely different from the previous rounds-based model, which Indonesia is familiar with.
In the NFM, the Global Fund has incorporated mandatory Counterpart Financing (CF) requirements for its financial support. Applicant countries are required to demonstrate that government contribution to the national disease control programme reaches the minimum level threshold. Indonesia is considered as an Upper Lower Middle Income (U-LMI) country. It has to show at least 40% contribution to the same national disease control programme.
To further incentivize additional co-investments by the government in disease control programmes, the Global Fund has incorporated ‘Willingness-To-Pay’ (WTP) as a qualitative factor for adjusting the indicative funding. The indicative funding amount shared with the country will include a 15% allocation for WTP that can be availed by applicant countries based on additional government commitments for the next phase. If government commitments are not sufficient to meet the threshold requirements for all of the disease control programmes that are supported by the Global Fund, the country will not be able to access the WTP allocation.
Moreover, countries with high co-infection rates of TB and HIV will have to submit a single concept that presents integrated and joint programming for the two diseases. This condition brings special challenge for Indonesia as each disease has a different period of on-going GFATM grant and different long established programme management system that runs vertically from central to district to health service providers.
Given this situation, the period of May-December 2014 is critical for the four TWGs to prepare a new concept note that is in line with the NFM requirements, to be submitted in time to the GFATM.
Meanwhile, as of December 2013, the grant performance of 6 out of 10 PRs did not meet expectations. 50% of them had lower performance compared to the previous performance rating. Therefore, support for CCM in oversight function as well as for PRs in management and programme delivery can not be overlooked.
For years, UNDP support services have been part of a joint effort by the UN Country Team to support the Government of Indonesia in the successful implementation of its GFATM grants. UNDP and GFATM have reached an agreement on their working relationship since 2003. Based on the recently closed MTAF project , UNDP learned that facilitation for GFATM grant management is still needed, more so with the upcoming NFM, the inadequate performance of the PRs and the nascent stage of the Health Consultant Committee (Komite Pendayagunanaan Konsultan Kesehatan – KPKK) .
A number of international development partners (i.e. UNAIDS, WHO, USAID, DFAT, UNDP and UNICEF) have for many years provided assistance to the GFATM grant management in Indonesia. At present, with the challenges that the CCM and PRs are facing in their downgraded ratings and the roll-out of NFM, stronger coordination and better structured support by international development partners are urgently needed. Many agencies have provided support separately and this leads to the need to map out and communicate the gap. Therefore, UNDP plans to revive the coordination platform and dedicate a senior technical support coordinator (STSC) to focus on this. UNDP intends to strengthen partnership and collaboration among development partners, facilitate an effective process for channelling and mobilizing existing (technical and management) support to TWGs and PRs and address grant development and management issues, with possibility of developing a pooled fund mechanism too.
The Government and UNDP have identified six priorities that the CCM and PRs need to pay attention to in the next 18 months: 1) HSS concept note writing, 2) AIDS grant reprogramming for extension period of July-December 2015, 3) Joint TB-HIV concept note development, 4) Facilitating Technical Assistance in improving the achievement of targeted indicators for HIV PRs or other PRs with B rating, 5) Facilitating grant management support to PRs, including on how to manage and improve SR grant performance, and 6) Facilitating PR’s immediate response to issues raised in management letters.
Under the overall guidance and on behalf of the Programme Manager PR & MDG (PM PR&MDG), the Senior Technical Support Coordinator has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. The project manager is responsible for making the day-to-day decisions on project implementation and ensures that the project produces the results specified in the project document to the required standards of quality and within the specified time and cost. The primary reporting responsibility of the incumbent is to the Programme Manager PR & MDG as the primary supervisor. Additionally, for matters related to technical support to PRs/TWGs – the CCM Secretariate will be consulted fully.
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