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mobilization and management of multi-donor funds, and for the mainstreaming of multi-donor support program into government programming processes.
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2. Aid for Effectiveness Development Secretariat, 2009
Following the signing of Jakarta Commitment, GoI has established the Aid for Development Effectiveness Secretariat A4DES as a means to implement the Jakarta
Commitment. A4DES manages the “pooled resources facility” provided by GoI and Development Partners
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. A4DES supports, facilitates, coordinates and monitors implementation of the Jakarta Commitments road map action matrix. During the course,
A4DES also facilitates capacity development for GoI officials who are participate in the implementation of the Roadmap.
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A4DES is led by a steering committee SC chaired by the Deputy Minister for Development Funding of Bappenas. SC members consist of high ranks official from Ministry of
Finance, Coordination Ministry of Economics, National Procurement Policy Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Ministry of State Secretariat. The steering
committee is responsible for the achievement of the Jakarta Commitment action plan and to ensure an effective and accountable use of A4DES resources. The SC delegates the day to day
operations delegate authority to the Management Committee who is overseeing daily progress and implementations of A4DES program.
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The Thematic Workings Groups WG under A4DES are envisaged to be forums for sharing information, discussing achievements and challenges and to agree on common steps to
be taken moving forward on fully meeting the goals as stipulated in the Jakarta Commitment
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The Jakarta Commitment, at Sec. II b.
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Aid for Development Effectiveness Secretariat, supra note 134, at 80.
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Id. at 82.
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Head of Bappenas Decree No. 33M.PPNHK042009 issued on April 2nd, 2009.
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and the related action matrix.
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Thematic WG are developed in the following areas with membership being relevant government and development partner stakeholders: Procurement,
Public Financial Management, Dialogue and Institutional Development, Development of Financing Mechanism; Monitoring and Evaluation; and Capacity Building and Knowledge
Management.
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During the operation of A4DES, WG on Public Financial Management DFM has made historical step in the establishment of Indonesian Development Trust Fund. The Working Group
on DFM was the one who setting-up a concept of National Development Trust Fund, based on Indonesia’s prior similar experiences in industrial efficiency pollution control, and Non-project
grant aid from Japan.
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A major task of the of the WG on PFM is to create a nationally owned results-based cooperation process to work with the development partners for the targeted
development results in an environment of mutual respect, trust and accountability.
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The National Trust Fund NTF A4DES is prepared to serve as a nationally owned and administered trust mechanism for pooling external funding resources from various development
partners in a manner that could improve alignment between external assistance and national system. This is done in order to establish a stronger national ownership in defining aid
architecture and processes consistent with Indonesia’s Aid for Development Effectiveness agenda, particularly the Jakarta Commitment.
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In the early stage, the trust fund will be administered by the UNDP as a ‘trustee’, in the form of Transitional Multi-Donor Fund TMDF. The purpose of TMDF is to channel
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See generally Aid for Development Effectiveness Secretariat, supra note 134.
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Id.
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Felicia Yuwono, supra note 102, at 27-8.
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The Aid of Development Effectiveness Secretariat, supra note 5, at 3-1.
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Id. at 3-4.
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development partners’ support for the implementation of A4DES work program in an effective, efficient, transparent and accountable manner, so that the impact of such assistance can be
maximised. TMDF also serves as a mean to identify, select and develop the necessary capacity for a national entity as part of the step to form a Nationally Managed Trust Fund that is fully
managed by Indonesian entity.
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3. Government Regulation on Procedure and Mechanism to Administer Foreign
