WEST JAVA UNFPA 6th PROGRAMME ACHIEVEMENT 2002

WEST JAVA UNFPA 6th PROGRAMME ACHIEVEMENT 2002

P01: Essential Reproductive Health Package

P01 is the main part of the whole management of this 6th cycle program. Main activities that undertaken in P01 are:

1. Program management implementation, through PPCU (Provincial Programme Coordinating Unit) which is complemented with PPM (Provincial Program Manager), PAF (Administration and Finance), and DPCU (District Programme Coordinating Unit) which is complemented with DF (District Facilitator). Until the year 2002, 10 DPCU has been established, along with project P01 coverage. It is expected that in 2003 all 13 DPCU will be established.

2. Management visitation, monitoring, and facilitation. Along the year 2002, total visits in accordance to management and monitoring is around 150 visits to 167 sub districts, 189 villages, and 146 community health centres (Puskesmas).

3. Minigrant offers, in the form of transportation aid for birth in emergency situations with an amount of Rp 2.006.000,00 for each village, which has been given to 120 villages with number of 516 births using this fund.

4. Workshop, seminar and training on PKRE, gender, management reference, MFM, safe motherhood, IEC, and peer educator to PLKB, Midwives, local government, general community, NGO, and GSI teams. Along the year 2002 this has been done 141 times involving 2.545 participants.

P03 : Adolescent Reproductive Health

P03 ARH activities is conducted in order to support and establish youth centres Mitra Citra Remaja in 3 locations (1 existing location, 2 new establishments) as follows:

Bandung, an existing location with targets for high school students.

b.Cirebon, a new establishment with targets for high school students.

c.Tasikmalaya, a new establishment with targets for home industry workers and teenagers.

Along the year 2002, MCR’s activities include (Bandung data) lectures 73 times with 7.871 participants, personal discussion skills 33 times with 537 participants, training 21 times with 502 participants, panel discussions 3 times with 937 participants, media distribution 7.777 exemplars, web-site development with 1.267 visits, internet café access with 1.080 visits, and counselling through newspaper, email, radio, hotline, and live (face to face) with total frequency of counselling 1.624 times.

Besides that, medical services are also given 381 times and special event arrangements 943 times.

P04 : Commodity Security

One of the nine outputs of the RH Sub-Programme that has direct link with the project is Output 9, which is to ensure RH/FP commodities readily available, accessible to people of all socio economic status. The component project will reflect attainment of Output 9 through a set of inter-related activities. The expected outcomes of the various activities are detailed in the logical framework (Annex 1).

An essence of this output 9 is to ensure that both poor and non-poor have capacity to access readily and affordably to reproductive health services and commodities. This output is intended to cover all types of users, those who need

The number of activities proposed in this project is to find out ways to increase access to RH commodities through public sector for poor clients and shift clients, who can afford, to private sector and social marketing. Also cost recovery mechanisms will be explored under this component project. All activities are in coordination with and complementary to the activities on RH/FP commodities of the USAID’s STARH programme to avoid overlapping of programme activities and re-enforcing each other programmers, including activities supported under European Commission (EC).

For the year 2002, a survey is recently done for storage building minor repairs in BKKBN in 7 regencies and municipalities of West Java

P05 : STI and HIV/AIDS Prevention

This components project deals primarily with activities contained in the RH Sub-Programme output, “Increased access to information and effective preventive measures on STI and HIV/AIDS by groups with high-risk behavior through NGO initiatives”. The project will implement intervention activities in 4 provinces using an information, education, and communication (IEC) strategy in conjunction with skills building for condom use and management of sexually-transmitted infections (STI) among high-risk groups

In order to reach the goals, which focus more on prevention, the project has general strategies, i.e. :

To raise awareness.

To have repeated, effective contact with target groups such as through peer education.

To provide the means of behavior change (condoms and STI treatment/referrals).

P05 activities are focused in 2 hotspots in Bandung, which are Dewi Sartika and Saritem. Activities are done by assigning volunteers to give understanding on STI prevention and HIV/AIDS prevention. In Saritem location for example, there are still 327 CSW with 69 locations and “managers”.

P06 : Violence Against Women

The activities of this component project will be aimed at reaching victims of violence against women with the legal, medical, social, and economic interventions they require; collecting and utilizing data on VAW to improve the design, implementation, and targeting of interventions to reduce and manage the consequences of VAW; and continuing to improve advocacy efforts to raise awareness about VAW, and create a policy environment that supports the elimination of VAW. Activities will be planned at the national level, as well as in community sites in the four provinces in which UNFPA is active, West Java, South Sumatera, West Kalimantan, and East Nusa Tenggara.

Four partners agencies will be involved in the execution of this project, namely, PIKUL, Puan Amal Hayati, Rifka Annisa for provinces and community level activities; and Komnas Perempuan, for National level activities. The MOWE will serve as coordinating body for this project ensuring government commitment, intersectoral coordination and the creation of supportive environment for the elimination of VAW.

Handling of woman victims of violence covers legal, medical, social, and economic aspects. P06 is carried out in Cirebon, but until 2002 it is still in the preparation stage.

P07 : Gender Mainstreaming

Executed by the ministry of Women’s Empowerment (MOWE), the project was to have contributed to the formulation and implementation of gender sensitive reproductive health and population policies and programmes in selected sectoral ministries and regional government agencies.

Basically, the project was to :

a. secure political commitment and support from policy decision makers to integrate the pertinent gender issues in their respective policies and programme through sensitization and awareness raising based on existing information;

b. equip programme planners with skills for incorporating these relevant elements in sectoral and regional programmes through structured training that combines both sensitization and the mechanism for gender integration in policy statements, programmes, and strategies; and

c. develop corresponding monitoring and evaluation indicators that will track the progress in project implementation and asses the outcomes in terms of gender equality and welfare of men and women.

Therefore, seminars and training on gender are conducted 7 times with 428 participants.

P09 : District Level Database

Under the sixth Country Programme, UNFPA projects cover the administrative areas up to the district level. In this context, there is a need to support the implementation of the programme through the provision of relevant indicators at this level. These indicators, which are supposedly available at district level, are either not comprehensively compiled or unavailable at all. This component project is specifically designed to address this issue.

Indicators produced by this project will be used as general planning, monitoring, and evaluation indicators for other projects under the sixth Country Programme. The district authorities can also use these indicators for their policy making at the respective level. The indicators will be made available on annual basis. In addition, the provision of these indicators at district level will support the Result Based Management (RBM) approach to determine progress and results of programme implementation.

Some important demographic indicators, such as birth and death rates, and maternal mortality rate, will be calculated applying indirect methods. The rest of the required indicators will be developed using data available at various government organizations such as BKKBN, MOH, BPS, and Ministry of National Education. The construction of life table for district level will start in 2002 with the Susenas data. However, life-table for 2001 will be produced at province level using 2000 Census and 2001 Susenas data.

District Level Database P09 is conducted in 4 districts, they are Kota Cirebon, Cirebon, Kuningan, and Indramayu

P10 : Capacity Building for Advocacy

P10 is conducted in 13 districts. The focus of this project is to empower small groups of NGO and local government personnel through training, and advocacy development plan. MILIK, a coalition on population and development has also been established.

P11 : Advocacy for Decision Makers and Media

P11 components are strongly related with P10, even though not all P11 advocacy is supported by P10 capacity building. Advocacy for decision makers and media is focused on (a) Family Planning, (b) service quality, (c) mother health, (d) STI and HIV/AIDS prevention, (e) Adolescent Reproductive Health, (f) Violence Against Women, (g) policy and planning integration, (h) gender issues, (i) man involvement in ARH, (j) elderly people service, and (k) demography and natural environment.

Ahmad Idjaz 2003