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Profile page on Indonesian Government's Banda Aceh-based Bureau of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for Aceh and Nias (BRR).
Other web site for press releases and BRR news:
http://www.e-aceh-nias.org/
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13 Dec 06: Djakarta faces closer scrutiny of Aceh reconstruction effort: Former Aceh separatist leaders and candidates in this week's first elections in Indonesia's northern-most province have strongly disagreed with the official line that land issues are the main reason for tens of thousands of Acehnese still without houses, despite more than US$4.6 billion of international aid channelled through Indonesia's Bureau of Reconstruction for Aceh and Nias (BRR).
05 Nov 06: BRR plans to act on French SCNF rail group's recommends to rebuild colonial era Banda Aceh to Medan railway: Built in 1876, it's very narrow 0.7m gauge could be replaced with 1.435m with trains running 50pc faster that the 80kph original design speed. At its peak before World War II, the railway carried 9,000 people and 500 tons freight daily.
23 Sep 06: BRR's performance could benefit from reforms needed in Aceh - administrators are the main beneficiaries of aid funds say World Bank team members. Three vital reforms are spend more on infrastructure projects, address the low capacity to manage public funds and make a unified, comprehensive system for data.
21 Sep 06: Concern about mis-use of tsunami aid funds could deny Aceh and Nias pledged US$2.5bn
BRR has received US$4.6 billion in world donations since the Boxing Day 2004 tsunami hit, but it could miss out on a US$2.5 billion balance of pledged funds not yet issued, depending on how the world's aid organisations react to growing evidence of funds mis-use in Indonesia.
18 Sep 06: Mis-use of Aceh funds - Investigators name BRR staff - A budget official was the first among officials identified by Indonesia's graft investigators, in the Banda Aceh-based Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Bureau (BRR).
15 Sep 06: Indonesian official asks Howard for more tsunami reconstruction help - bureaucrats and press mute about the Canberra meeting Wednesday
The press has missed an opportunity to probe Australia’s aid help to Indonesia at a time when Aussie public opinion is running high over the death sentences that Indonesian appeal court judges imposed arbitrary on convicted Australian drug runners - Scott Rush in particular
Among BRR targets for 2006: 40,000 house units, 450kms roads, 435kms bridges - as at 9 May 06
BRR chief says only $4.6bn committed so far - 24 Apr 06
July WFPSS users meeting: WFPSS is currently operating 9 LCTs and three coasters, most loading out of Belawan - They take timber from Kalimantan, ferry shipping containers from Belawan for BRR and move construction materials for UNDP. One of WFPSS's landing ships in its second month stuck at Sampit because of timber documentation issues. Another was delayed 14 days in Samarinda awaiting late arrival of cargo.
From WFPSS June 06 meeting with shippers
Included: New vessel charters, timber from Kalimantan, construction materials for UNDP, shipping containers for BRR, timber documentation issues, Oxfam ship delay.
Aceh imports only 3,000 cu m timber, but needs 204,000 - IFRC/WWF's July timber event is told Aceh imported only 3,000 cu m so far against needed 204,000 to make 120,000 houses. The event was attended by more than 50 representatives from the Aceh provincial administration, the BRR, donor agencies, construction and banking experts and sustainable timber producers from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, New Zealand and the U.S.
Govt reports tick HFH : Indon's BRR and Aust's ACFID
NGOs cite issues causing under-achieving, BRR relents on criticism
Changes to BRR tendering, See e-aceh site for notifications
To date (7 Jul 06) , BRR and the NGOs have completed among others more than 41,734 permanent houses; 490 km roads; 524 school units; 113 health units; 9,258 ha saltwater fishponds; 37,926 ha agriculture lands; 5,943 fishing boats; 5 airstrips; 2 ports and micro finance distribution to 147,823 small enterprises. Source: Media Release, BRR Presents Appreciation… July 7, 2006 posted e-Aceh
Djakarta faces closer scrutiny of Aceh reconstruction effort
13 Dec 06: Former Aceh separatist leaders and candidates in this week's first elections in Indonesia's northern-most province have strongly disagreed with the official line that land issues are the main reason for tens of thousands of Acehnese still without houses, despite more than US$4.6 billion of international aid channelled through Indonesia's Bureau of Reconstruction for Aceh and Nias (BRR).
A former Aceh-separatist (GAM) leader, Irwandi Yusuf, is now Governor-elect as a result of Aceh's first elections which were held this week. According to two separate election monitoring groups, Irwandi is set to win easily, said a BBC report.
In her 12 Dec 06 report "Aceh votes for major change", BBC reporter Lucy Williamson acknowledged that Aceh's elections stemmed directly from the world aid spotlight put on Indonesia's northern-most province after 2004's Boxing Day tsunami devastated far inland along the Indian Ocean coastline.
The world's press covered the election result but only one, a Chinese news agency, picked up on the growing Aceh discontent with the Jakarta-led reconstruction progress.
Bachtier Abdullah, another former GAM leader and candidate in the elections, rejected the reason that NGOs and the BRR have been giving for the slowness in Aceh reconstruction - problems of land availability due to issues over title.
The 11 Dec 06 Xinhua report quoted Bachtier Abdullah: "We see many refugees of the tsunami live in barrack after nearly two years.
"How could this happen, while the international donation keeps coming to Aceh?
"As the agency was set up by Jakarta, so Jakarta must fix it."
The report noted that BRR got vandalized recently by dwellers from barracks and tents demanding a faster pace of reconstruction. Also, that two BRR officials have been under prosecutor investigation for corruption charges.
Indonesian Information Minister Sofyan Djalil deflected criticism of BRR's managerial capacity, insisting that land ownership was still the main reason.
Bachtier Abdullah rejected land ownership as the reason for the slowness and said the capacity of the BRR must be improved to accelerate the implementation of programs.
Xinhua report "Aceh relief work far from expectation," 11 Dec 06
Aceh relief work far from expectation, 11 Dec 06
Aceh relief work far from expectation, 11 Dec 06
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331193.html
Despite achievements, reconstruction and rehabilitation in Indonesia's Aceh province in nearly two years after the tsunami are still far from people's expectation, scores of problems and lack of managerial capabilities are among the obstacles, said local officials and ex- rebel leaders.
Hundreds of survivors of the December 2004 catastrophe still live in barracks and tents, as they have yet got houses promised by the relief agency.
Of the 128,000 houses planned to be built, only some 50,000 so far have been delivered, spokesman of the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) Mirza Kumala said, adding that over 17, 000 others now were being reconstructed.
The agency has built at least 600 schools, 600 religious buildings, more than 100 health facilities, provided some 10,000 sailing boats, recovered 30,000 hectares of fishponds, 490 kilometres of roads and two sea ports, while five other sea ports are being rehabilitated, according to data of the agency in October.
As the main focus of the agency is to build houses and the damages caused by the catastrophe was over 800 kilometres along the cost line, Kumala said that it was difficult to meet the high public demand.
"We can understand some see that the BRR's work is slow, because of our limited capacity," he told Xinhua.
Indonesian Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said that land ownership and the people demanding to quickly get houses were still among the hindrance of the work of the agency.
"People's expectation is high. There are some people who want the process faster," he said.
Some landowners are reluctant to sell their land, although the agency has sufficient funds to release the land for building houses, said Djalil.
"One area can not be well planned due to people's reluctance of releasing their land," he said.
Chairman of the Aceh Cultural Centre Hasbllah M. Saad blamed the poor managerial skill of the agency in managing the donors funds as the main reason of slow of the relief process.
"The reconstruction only can absorb less than 30 percent of the funds per year, which mean the funds from overseas or domestic can not be well managed or spent for the reconstruction and rehabilitation," he told Xinhua.
Hasballah said the poor management of the agency could not make a priority.
The BRR has received at least 4.8 billion out of 7.1 billion U. S. dollars of donor pledges to Indonesia, according to the head of the agency, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto.
As the disbursement of the rest of pledge has been slower recently and the occurring of other catastrophes in the world, Hasballah was pessimistic that the rest of the promise can be materialized.
"Donors may give priority to areas that are more urgent to obtain aids," he said.
The most recent strikes by the Durian typhoon in the Philippines killed more than 1,000 people and destroying building and infrastructures. Then the typhoon hit Vietnam, killing scores of people.
Nurbaity, 36, one of the tsunami survivors, has lived in a barrack for nearly two years. She said she has been bore with promises of officials to provide her house.
"They said we will get houses, but after nearly two years I still do not have it," she said
Spokesman of the separatist Free Aceh Movement Bachtiar Abdullah said the capacity of the BRR must be improved to accelerate the implementation of programs.
"As the agency was set up by Jakarta, so that Jakarta must fix it," he said.
Abdullah refused land ownership as the reason of the slowness.
"We see many refugees of the tsunami live in barrack after nearly two years. How could this happen, while the international donation keeps coming to Aceh," said Abdullah.
Information Minister Sofyan Djalil said that Aceh will get over 350 million U.S. dollars additional funds per year, starting from 2008.
The relief agency was vandalized months ago by mass who live in tent and barracks, demanding the agency to fasten their work.
Two of the officials of the agency have been under prosecutor investigation for corruption charge.
Head of the agency Kuntoro Mangkusubroto said they will transparently manage the funds.
23 Sep 06: BRR's performance could benefit from reforms needed in Aceh - administrators are the main beneficiaries of aid funds say World Bank team members
The World Bank leads in organising Aceh/Nias project funds through a Multi Donor Fund (MDF) of the EU, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and 12 governments (other than Indonesia's bilateral funders - the US, Australia, Japan).
The Bank's team members identified three reforms vital for improving BRR's reconstruction oversight in Aceh and Nias:
(1) Spend more on infrastructure projects by arresting the funding of mushrooming administrative structures;
(2) Address the very low capacity to manage public funds well; and
(3) All parties to coordinate data compilations better to make a unified, comprehensive system.
BRR is Indonesia's Bureau for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Aceh and Nias
Extract from report:
Local governments spend most of their resources on salaries and investments in "government apparatus", and these expenditures have been increasing disproportionately in recent years. As a result, spending on most key sectors stayed much lower than it could have been, particularly on infrastructure. One reason for this trend is the mushrooming of administrative structures due to the splitting of districts.
The report in full:
Hopes high for Acehnese to emerge from poverty
by Wolfgang Fengler and Ahya Ihsan, Jakarta Post report 23 Sep 06
Before the 2004 tsunami, Aceh was one of Indonesia's most neglected and isolated regions. Now, it is home to the largest reconstruction project in the developing world. The success of the reconstruction goes beyond economic recovery -- it is important for consolidating the peace agreement of August 2005. This has already made Aceh safe enough for economic activity to resume in previously dangerous areas.
Now is the time to address the structural constraints that have held Aceh back for decades -- financial resources are not among them. Since decentralization, Aceh has experienced a sharp increase in fiscal revenues. Aceh's total revenues have increased from Rp 4.5 trillion in 1999 to an estimated Rp 28 trillion (US$3 billion) in 2006 -- a remarkable six-fold increase. More than half of the 2006 expenditures will be on reconstruction (estimated at Rp 16 trillion) but regular revenues have also increased rapidly to Rp 12 trillion -- three times as high as before decentralization.
These regular revenues, which are also covering salaries of most civil servants, are expected to increase further to more than Rp 15 trillion by 2008. It is against this wealth of resources that Aceh's high -- and rising -- poverty levels must be viewed.
Three factors explain Aceh's large financial resources which will remain unchanged in the years to come and, if anything, only increase further.
First, Aceh has been among the main beneficiaries of decentralization. Since 1999, Aceh's regular revenues, managed by the province and local governments, increased from Rp 2 trillion in 1999 to Rp 11 trillion in 2006. Several factors contributed to this enormous increase, including the transfer of responsibilities in 2001, Aceh's special autonomy status in 2002 and an extreme increase in the General Allocation Fund (DAU) in 2006; Aceh received a 67 percent increase in the DAU across the country.
Second, spending on reconstruction will almost double Aceh's expenditure level from 2005-2009. The total reconstruction portfolio currently stands at about Rp 45 trillion, representing about 1,500 projects by more than 300 institutions. Total spending on the reconstruction effort is expected to exceed Rp 70 trillion by 2009. In 2006 alone, more than Rp 15 trillion is expected to be spent on reconstruction.
Third, the new Aceh Law will provide an additional allocation of Rp 3-4 trillion through a "Special Autonomy Fund" (Dana Otsus) from 2008 onwards. With declining revenues from oil and gas, the Dana Otsus is likely to become the second most important source of Aceh's revenues, similar to Papua.
Clearly, attention needs to be focused on spending these large revenues well -- and better than in the past. Aceh has the resources to fight poverty but it has not made much progress yet. Paradoxically, once Aceh's revenues started to increase disproportionately in 2001, poverty levels remained unchanged at 30 percent even though the rest of Indonesia experienced a massive decline of poverty to below 20 percent. Also within Aceh, regions with high revenues have yet to show results. North Aceh, which is also an oil and gas producing region, is the most extreme case: It has Aceh's second highest poverty rate, and at the same time manages the largest amount of fiscal resources.
The situation in the social sectors is equally paradoxical. Despite consistently larger amount of money, results are poorer compared to the rest of Indonesia. Most public services have been failing. In health and education, long-term structural problems are very striking and outweigh the short-term challenges after the tsunami. Reconstruction has progressed well in these sectors. Most medical facilities have been rehabilitated and almost all children are again regularly attending school. However, less than half of elementary school facilities are well maintained and the majority of teachers don't have the legally mandated qualification.
In health, only half of the villages are covered by a midwife -- the fourth lowest coverage in Indonesia -- even though the province has the highest density of midwives per percentage of population than the country. Most are concentrated in the well-covered urban areas having left the more insecure rural areas. A big challenge is to provide incentives for them to return. Aceh's social indicators have also failed to improve because Government expenditures have not been allocated effectively. Spending on the government apparatus and salaries has increased disproportionately while infrastructure spending in particular has been stagnant.
Aceh has a historic opportunity to turn its short-term reconstruction focus into a medium-term development plan. The large scale of investments in reconstruction will only be sustained if local governments take over when the Aceh Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) mandate expires in 2009, though ideally this could be much earlier. The reconstruction revenues will peak at the same time local government revenues will see another sharp increase.
In order to manage this transition from reconstruction to development successfully, three reform areas need urgent attention:
* Better allocation of resources. Local governments spend most of their resources on salaries and investments in "government apparatus", and these expenditures have been increasing disproportionately in recent years. As a result, spending on most key sectors stayed much lower than it could have been, particularly on infrastructure. One reason for this trend is the mushrooming of administrative structures due to the splitting of districts.
* Better management of resources. One of the most worrying findings of the Aceh Public Expenditure Analysis (Spending for Reconstruction and Development) is the very low capacity to manage public funds well. In particular, external controls, public debt management and accounting need urgent attention. One of the most critical reforms is thus to build capacity in local government and reform the incentives and sanctions regime governing their activities.
* Better data and information. Good data, information and communication are the secrets for successful development and reconstruction policy making. Throughout Indonesia information systems are not functioning optimally and Aceh's information systems are particularly weak. Even for the reconstruction effort, despite the global attention, there is no unified comprehensive system for collecting and disseminating key data. An attempt to set up a complex system, the Recovery Aceh and Nias Database, based on voluntary information inputs via the internet was a clear-cut mistake. Many found it hard to even understand how the system was supposed to work.
Those who did were so disappointed by the failure to produce credible information that they never bothered to update their inputs. For all of Aceh, credible information systems will become even more important as resources increase. Particular attention needs to be given to revenues from oil and gas and the allocation of the special autonomy fund. Both have been less than transparent in other parts of Indonesia, too.
The challenge for Aceh then is to translate the potential of its historically large public resources into a boost for regional economic development and a better life for its conflict and disaster afflicted victims. It is an opportunity Aceh cannot afford to miss.
The writers are part of a World Bank team that led the study Spending for Reconstruction and Development (Aceh Public Expenditure Analysis) in collaboration with Acehnese universities. The team can be contacted through wfengler@worldbank.org.
Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20060922.E02&irec=1
21 Sep 06: Concern about mis-use of tsunami aid funds could deny Aceh and Nias pledged US$2.5bn
BRR is Indonesia's Banda Aceh-based Aceh and Nias Bureau of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, through which US$7.1 billion was pledged by non-government aid organisations (NGOs) and world governments, whose funds are channelled through the World Bank and Asia Development Bank or, as for Australia and the US, through special bilateral funds via AusAID and USAID respectively.
The Australian Government pledged A$1 billion for Aceh and Nias use initially, then made the use Indonesia-wide when the AusAID allocation was combined in a total package of A$1.7billion in the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development (AIPRD).
Aid agencies aren't just concerned about corrupt practices such as charging for building materials never delivered. They are also worried about inflated costs for everything to which the aid funds are put, including the money paid to officials - starting with BRR's chief, Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, who Indonesia's President Yudhoyono appointed on a salary greater than his own.
There's no doubting the good use to which the total pledged world aid of US$7.1 billion could be put. As Asia Times Online's Bill Guerina just reported, the 2004 tsunami destroyed an estimated 1.3 million homes and buildings, eight seaports, four gas depots, 85% of clean-water facilities, 92% of sanitation facilities, 120 kilometers of roads, 18 bridges and 20% of electrical distribution points in Aceh and adjoining areas. The total damage bill was estimated by the government at $4.5 billion, representing 2.2% of Indonesia's gross domestic product and 97% of Aceh province's annual economic production. Beyond the enormous loss of life, the waves also destroyed about 40,000 hectares of rice fields and 70% of the fishing industry, according to the United Nations.
But the generous outpouring of foreign aid and donations to Indonesia in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami is being pilfered by corrupt government officials and their affiliated business interests. See more ..
Link to Guerina's report "After the tsunami, waves of corruption"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HI20Ae01.html
Mis-use of Aceh funds - Investigators start naming BRR staff
15 Sep 06: Indonesian prosecutors named two staff of the relief agency in Indonesia's province of Aceh as suspects in a corruption case, the spokesman of the provincial Attorney General office Muklis said here Thursday.
The agency's budget official Achyarmansyah and Hendrawan Diandi were allegedly involved in the mark up of prices in publication of a book by the national agency in May, which results in the agency's suffering financial loss of 400 million rupiah (40,000 U.S. dollars), a huge number according to the local standard, said Muklis.
The spokesman said that the prosecutors would investigate about 13 others possibly linking with the case.
In August, the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) accused the agency of a 239,600 U.S. dollars irregularity during its operation of supplying books, office kits, direct appointment of contractor and destroying expired medicine.
The head of the agency Kuntoro Mangkusubroto has admitted the possibility of a misuse of donors' funds by the agency due to the emergency situation.
Source: http://english.people.com.cn/200609/15/eng20060915_302886.html
Indonesian official asks Howard for more tsunami reconstruction help - bureaucrats and press mute about the Canberra meeting Wednesday
The press has missed an
opportunity to probe
"What I really
want to have in
"Aceh can become
an open society and open province, not isolated. That is very important to
change the mind set of the people of Aceh," Kuntoro said according to the
only report to emerge so far - in
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=41009
BRR's funding for the
massive reconstruction of tsunami and earthquake-hit Aceh and Nias would be
greater, if official Australian tsunami aid of A $1 billion went to the purpose
originally intended in 2005 following the 2004 Boxing Day disaster.
Meanwhile, BRR has
about US$5 billion from World Bank, Asia Development Bank and donor funding
through NGOs and UN/other aid agencies at its disposal.(Details - )http://www.acknowledge.com.au/whosworkingprofiles.htm#89470840
Perhaps it is just as
well that Australian government officials were not available for comment after
Kuntoro's Canberra visit on 13 Sep 06. Last month,
Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) accused BRR of irregularities with US$239,600
during its operation of supplying books, office kits, direct appointments of
contractors and destroying expired medicine.
More:
BRR’s
progress to July compared with targets
Locals
criticise BRR’s slow progress
BRR’s progress to
July compared with targets
A BRR press release of
7 Jul 06 said BRR and NGOs had completed more than 41,734 permanent houses, 490
km roads, 524 school units, 113 health units, 9,258 ha saltwater fishponds,
37,926 ha agriculture lands, 5,943 fishing boats, 5 airstrips, 2 ports and
micro finance distribution to 147,823 small enterprises.
To oversee the
projects, BRR had 101 working units supervising 945 State Budget projects, and
coordinated 291 NGOs and donor institutions with their 828 projects.
Locals
criticise BRR’s slow progress
Also on 13 Sep 06, Jakarta
Post reporter Nani Afrida described local dissatisfaction with BRR’s progress:
Last week, more than 2,000 displaced people
from 14 regencies in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam braved a heavy rain Monday to
stage a protest at the Aceh-Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR)
office in Banda Aceh. (Photo)
The crowd, grouped in the Inter Barracks
Communication Forum, arrived in trucks and public transportation vehicles to
demand the houses, land and economic assistance they say were promised them
after the 2004 tsunami. Many of the protesters brandished banners, some of
which read: "Don't steal people's money", "Open your eyes, your
ears" and "Don't get paid without working."
"We have been registered a number of times
but have not received a house so far," Muktar, 45, a resident of Paya
Kameng village in Mesjid Raya district, Aceh Besar, told The Jakarta Post.
They said they were tired of the unfulfilled
promises of the BRR and the complicated bureaucratic procedures they faced when
they attempted to claim assistance.
Source (13 Sep 06):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20060912.A06&irec=5
Among BRR targets for 2006: 40,000 house units, 450kms roads, 435kms bridges - as at 9 May 06
• 40.000 new housing units with clean water and sanitation
• Rehabilitation of 72 irrigation areas for 41,229 hectares of paddy fields
• Rehabilitation of 26.9 km sea barrier
• Road infrastructure reconstruction of 450 km and 435 km bridges in the western and estern coasts
• Reconstruction of 182 school building units and 200 education facilities
• Reconstruction of 145 health care facilities
• Reconstruction of 97 village offices, 25 sub-district offices, 36 regency offices and 12 provincial buildings
• Micro financing assistance for 24,100 people and 8,200 Small Medium Enterprises
• Reconstruction of 32 traditional markets and 7 central markets
• Rehabilitation of 5,000 ha tsunami devastated paddy fields, optimizing 1,200 ha plantation land, replanting of fruit orchids at 13,000 houses
• Facility and infrastructure support for fishery management units in 17 regencies, and construction of Fishery Depots in 5 regencies
Currently BRR manages 101 working units that supervise 945 State Budget (2005) projects, and coordinates 291 NGOs and donor institutions with their 828 projects.
Above came with report:
The Agency for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (BRR) of Aceh and Nias today holds the second high-level Coordination Forum for Aceh and Nias (CFAN2) attended by Ministers, BRR, local governments of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra, Ambassadors, stakeholder representatives and Agency Heads of NGOs and donor agencies including the World Bank, United Nations, local and international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and civil society.
The objective of CFAN2 is to continue enhancing coordination and increasing overall efficiency in the reconstruction and rehabilitation program, where BRR is shifting towards a regional model. Throughout 2006, BRR will establish ten regional offices across Aceh and Nias to foster stronger communication and coordination among implementing agencies.
Throughout 2006, BRR aims to reconstruct 78,000 housing units comprising of 40,000 homes by BRR and 38,000 houses by NGOs and donors, in addition to strategic infrastructure projects and other rehabilitation programs in fisheries, agriculture, irrigation, education, healthcare, economic empowerment and capacity building.
CFAN2 aims to establish action plan priorities for all stakeholder groups, to better serve our common recovery goals:
1. Developing a framework and operational strategy for a shared regional approach by improving communications and information retrieval towards the implementation of the regional model, as well as clarification of the roles of BRR, local government and implementing agencies.
2. Consolidating the various plans with respect to regional programs among the various governmental departments and agencies.
3. Developing a comprehensive and sustainable communications strategy, and ensuring community needs are addressed and communicated to decision makers, ensuring appropriate recovery programs are implemented.
4. Tightening systems of integrity through joint monitoring and reaching out to communities to ensure corruption is prevented at the very roots.
Kuntoro further said, “Through CFAN2, each stakeholder group has a specific role and action plan to support regionalization, thus enhancing greater participation, coordination and efficiency to meet the targets.”
For more information contact:
Mirza Keumala
Kepala Komunikasi dan Hubungan Stakeholders BRR NAD-Nias
Tel.: 0812 698 9519
Website: www.e-aceh-nias.org
Source:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6PP3D5?OpenDocument
BRR chief says only $4.6bn committed so far - 24 Apr 06
The BRR has recently changed its tendering processes to improve efficiency, amid growing donor concern over uncontested contracts, with several international donors expressing concern over the special dispensation that permits direct appointment of housing contracts, rather than tendering.
Around Rp 7 trillion (some US$777 million) during the second quarter of this year in housing, schools and education project are part of the Rp 9.9 trillion in projects allocated for this year from the state budget, Kuntoro said Sunday.
The funds exclude contributions from foreign donor countries or agencies, which will account for around 70 percent of reconstruction funds needed for this year.
Source (24 Apr 06):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/Archives/ArchivesDet2.asp?FileID=20060424.L01