Report Objective Overall Consultancy Objectives and Scope

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1. Introduction

1.1 Report Objective

This report is the final product for the Systematic assessment of the Child Friendly CityDistrict CFCD initiative in Indonesia consultancy commissioned by UNICEF in Indonesia. It presents final findings, observations and recommendations that were based on the literature review, field trip, interviews, and other observations collected by the research team. The report corresponds to the draft version of the final report. The idea is that all interested parts should revise the contents of this document, and after a round of comments a final version can be designed.

1.2 Overall Consultancy Objectives and Scope

The objective for this consultancy is to make a systematic assessment to document and collect lessons learnt on the CFCD initiative in Indonesia, focusing on the districts where UNICEF has supported the local government in the CFCD implementation while also taking into consideration how the initiative has evolved in a non-UNICEF supported context, aiming to: i Review changes or outcomes for children that have occurred since the CFC was implemented and to what extent the CFC approach has contributed to these changesoutcomes; ii Assess how CFCD has helped in shaping the inequity agenda and disparities on the ground in terms of policy, planning and programme implementation efforts; and; iii Identify key lessons learned from the CFCD implementation. In order to collect evidence and to analyse some possible results and challenges of the CFCD initiative in Indonesia, the analysis of the assessment looked into details of three out of the nine 1 key elements of CFCD in the country, the ones that had the most contribution from UNICEF: a The coordination mechanism through the CFCD Task Force; b The role of child participation in the decision making process 2 ; and c The mainstreaming of child rights through the local action plan on CFCD. The three key elements selected to be the core of the analyse for this work represent the foundation of the Child Friendly Initiative; they are the facilitators for the remaining blocks, and are the basis for the whole initiative. Also, historically, as mentioned, these are the areas where UNCEF has supported the country’s CFC strategy. The focus on these three blocks does not mean that the other elements were disregarded. The CFC strategy takes as core principle that all nine elements are interchangeable and interdependent. In that sense, all the nine elements were taken into consideration for the final analysis. The research team 3 visited three localities in the first trip to Indonesia: Surakarta also known as Solo in the Central Java, Poliwali Mandar in West Sulawesi, and Aceh Besar 1 More on the nine elements on section 2.1 of this report. 2 Including, where exists, the children forum. 3 The research team is formed by one national and one international consultant. 6 district in Aceh Province. A second field trip took place in Balikpapan, in the East Kalimantan yellow in the Figure 1. The main differential between the citiesdistricts from the first and second trips was the fact that Balikpapan did not receive direct support from UNICEF during its implementation of the CFCD. Interviews with government officials and others involved in the initiative happened in Jakarta; however, the city was not the subject of the assessment. Figure 1: CitiesDistricts part of the assessment Map source: Google

1.3 Research Methodology