Accompanied by senior US government officials and US Ambassador Cameron R. Hume, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited one of USAID’s Integrated Sites in RW 08, Kelurahan Petojo Utara, Central Jakarta on Thursday, February 19, 2009.
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Collaboration between the Forestry Ministry and ESP has brought a new ray of hope in the effort to save the natural environment in Indonesia
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A simple monitoring methods involves Integrated Health Post (Posyandu) cadres in recording behavioral change in ESP activity areas
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It turns out that there is a strong link between politics and land rehabilitation. At a media discussion activity, ESP tries to reveal the relationship further
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With improving drinking water and sanitation condition in mind, a health network is strengthening partnership with other parties in the same filed
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 9 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period October 1 through December 30, 2007. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
Many people think that gender mainstreaming is a matter of improving the involvement of women in social activities. ESP is looking for ways to change this perception.
This document is a revision of the first approved PMP document, which was published in August 2006. This revision incorporates changes to the technical direction of ESP as set forth in Contract Modification #8, in July 2007. Most significantly, Contract Modification #8 led to a revision of wording and coding of a number of ESP outcomes. This revised PMP document follows the structure of the current ESP Annual Work Plan, with indicators at the following levels:
1. USAID Basic Human Services (BHS) Strategic Objective (SO)
2. USAID Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems (MHE) Special Objective (Sp)
3. USAID Annual Operational Plan (OP) indicators
4. ESP Scope of Work Outcomes and Deliverables
Jakarta The “Tree of Hope and Action” staged in front of USAID booth during the three-days Indonesian Sanitation Expo and National Sanitation Conference from November 19-21, 2007 in Balai Kartini Exhibition Hall, Jakarta might serve as a reflection for everyone who passes by the area.
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Jakarta. On November 19-20, 2007, the National Planning Agency (Bappenas) is conducting the National Sanitation Conference (NSC) 2007 at Balai Kartini, Jakarta. Themed “Mobilizing Potential Resources to Accelerate Sanitation Development”, the event aims to mobilize support from government and other stakeholders to develop the sanitation sector in Indonesia.
Jakarta. Indonesian Sanitation Expo and National Sanitation Conference is an event organized by Indonesian government to bring together important stakeholders in sanitation sector, with the aim to promote increased access to sanitation and solid waste services through improved management, alternative financing and new technology.
This document covers the fourth year of ESP’s five year contract, from October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008. It presents a strategy of building off the solid foundation of field activities and networks developed over the first three years of the program to achieve greater long-term impact through a Work Plan theme of leveraging for sustainability.
This document represents the combined Annual Progress Report No. 3 for the period October 2006 through September 2007 and Quarterly Progress Report #10 for the period of July through September 2007 of the Environmental Services Program (ESP).
The document consists of reports on ESP’s Small Grants Program initiatives. There are 28 committed small grants for the period of 2005 - 2007.
This document is a proposal for new financing mechanism for water & sanitation sector, referred to as Indonesia Water Revolving Fund (IWRF). The purpose of IWRF is to improve access to long-term financing to providers of water, sanitation & other environment-related services. ESP wrote this proposal for review by central government ministries, regional governments & other prospective stakeholders.
This document describes the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) for ESP. The PMP follows the structure of ESP First Annual Work Plan & Life of Project Plan as well as ESP Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Work Plan, with indicators at following levels: 1. USAID Basic Human Services Strategic Objective 2. USAID Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems Special Objective 3. ESP Scope of Work Outcomes & Deliverables.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 9 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period April 1 through June 30, 2007. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
Jakarta. The bright Sunday morning of 6 May 2007 brought health and hygiene in Indonesia to a new level as the country’s Coordinating Ministry for People’s Welfare, with support from UNICEF and USAID, kicked off the National Campaign for Hand Washing with Soap (HWWS) in National Monument (Monas) Square, Jakarta, while the governors of West Java, East Java and North Sumatra launched similar campaigns in their respective regions. Read more »
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 8 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period January 1 through March 31, 2007. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
This report documents the approach adopted to assess biological values as a contribution to ranking and prioritizing high priority areas. In doing so, it makes several reasonable ecological and practical management assertions. Namely, that land that is rehabilitated by planting of trees, particularly with mixed species, will advantage biological diversity compared to land that is degraded or has been converted to non – forest agricultural monospecies crops.
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The document contains result of a formative research conducted by ESP with the technical assistance of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs, in order to obtain a detailed picture of the local hygiene practices and the factors facilitating and inhibiting these hygiene behaviors.
This report is a compilation of training materials used during ESP Watershed Management Field School Training of Trainers in Solok, West Sumatra. Among the training subjects are: sustainable livelihoods assessment, agroforestry, hydrology, watershed management, health & hygiene issues, soil ecology, water & sanitation and other supporting subjects e.g. gender, conflict analysis, case study writing. This report is only available in Bahasa Indonesia without English summary and abstract.
This report documents the process of ESP Watershed Management Field School Training of Trainers in Solok, West Sumatra July 2 - September 17, 2006. The process start from curriculum discussion, training design and preparation of training programs. Then the document also covers training implementation through core and supporting curriculum materials, followed by additional materials. This report is only available in Bahasa Indonesia with abstract in English.
This document contains information on ESP’s Watershed Management Field Schools, a new training approach to mobilize a significant number of people and communities needed to be enabled to improve watershed condition through training to plan, organize, and implement community-based initiatives in watershed management. The document and abstract are in English.
The purpose of this report is to provide some guidance on facilitation of watershed management planning processes, and development and implementation of effective management plans necessary to achieve ESP objectives as well as to ensure long-term sustainability of ESP work into the future.
This Agroforestry ToT Curriculum was prepared by a small team during the period mid-February to early April 2006. The preliminary work of the team, up to early March can be found in the Inception report (Annex 1). Since that time the work of the team has focused on refining the themes for the Agroforestry ToT curriculum and preparing supporting materials.
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This report contains detailed mechanism that ESP proposed to finance water, sanitation and related environmental services with third-party long-term loans and securitization offerings, referred to as the Indonesia Water Fund. ESP has developed the proposal with PT. Danareksa, an investment house. These arrangements attracted support from MoF and GOI agencies.
This report contains result of a task to identify opportunities to strengthen its contribution to diarrhea prevention, especially for vulnerable women, young children, and poor families. The result is recommendations for ESP operations and activities, staff and partner capacity building, and integration with resources from but not limited to USAID/Basic Health Services partners.
The objective of this study is the assessment of nine Centralized Wastewater Treatment Systems. Comparison is done on four major topics: financial (revenues and cost), management, technical, and institutional. The report consists of one main report and individual reports on every plant.
This action plan has been developed to recommend procedures by which the ESP-USAID project can have a meaningful role in the implementation of effective solid waste management in Aceh Province and in other areas in which the ESP-USAID program is active.
Environment Services Program (ESP) aims to improve health through increasing access to clean water. A way to do it is through enhancing the performance of the PDAM (Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum - Indonesia Water Supply Company). Assessment is required to determine certain PDAM branch and suitable program to improve their capacity and performance.
The objectives of the gender needs assessment (GNA) were to produce recommendations to strengthen the three core ESP components from a gender perspective and to begin building staff capacity in gender mainstreaming by conducting the GNA with the participation of ESP staff and partners.
This Environmental Services Program (ESP) 2007 Annual Work Plan covers the third ESP’s five year contract, and presents an integrated approach for achieving overall outcomes and deliverables. This Work Plan builds from the solid foundation of experience, collaboration and lessons learned since inception of ESP in December 2005.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 7 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period October 1 through December 30, 2006. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP
Peta ESP untuk Propinsi Prioritas Utama berisi peta-peta yang digunakan pada tahap awal seleksi lokasi dan pengambilan keputusan, dan menggambarkan pentingnya fungsi GIS untuk ESP. Untuk tiap propinsi prioritas, dibuatkan enam buah peta yang meliputi batas-batas fisiografi dan wilayah daerah aliran sungai; penggunaan lahan dan wilayah terlindungi; penyebaran penduduk yang dipisahkan berdasar tingkat pendapatan, kematian akibat lima penyakit utama, dan area-area utama lain dari wilayah kerja ESP. Untuk wilayah Aceh, diberikan peta tambahan berupa wilayah-wilayah yang mengalami kerusakan akibat tsunami. Laporan ini hanya tersedia dalam versi bahasa Inggris.
The ESP Atlas for High Priority Provinces provides base maps used in initial site selection and decision-making, and demonstrates the importance of GIS for ESP. For each HPP, six maps are presented. Maps cover physiographic and watershed area boundaries; watershed and district/municipality boundaries; general land use and protected areas; population distribution, disaggregated by incidence of poverty; mortality rates of five main diseases; and initial priority areas for ESP activities. An additional map of damage area caused by the tsunami is included for Aceh.
This report is a summary of Indonesia ESP’s second year of achievements from October 2005 to September 2006.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 6 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period July 1 through Sept 30, 2006. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP
The document describes workplanning for integration with main topic of health in the watershed to prevent diarrhea in upstream and downstream area. The workplanning aims to identify opportunities and define multi-sectoral activities which helps preventing diarrhea, especially for vulnerable women, young children, and poor families. The document and abstract are available in English.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 5 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period April 1 through June 30, 2006. This report provides information on the execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 4 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period January 1 through March 31, 2006. This report provides information on the initiation and execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
National. “In fact, there are easy ways to obtain potable water. Just ask me how…” This sentence is written on the back of the t-shirts of dozens of happy students and teachers participating in the Water Testing Day (WTD) held in SMPN 10 Padang, West Sumatra on February 6.
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The purpose of this assistance was to identify & recommend spatial planning applications & training that foster participation & improved management for ESP. This assistance follows previous GIS needs assessment & is part of capacity building activities aimed at expanding GIS role from on-demand mapping to a strong spatial planning team with active advisory and planning role for ESP.
The Training on Census for Drinking Water is aimed to improve the knowledge of staffs who involved in the census process. The training is designed for enumerators, data entry staffs and field coordinators. This report is only available in Bahasa Indonesia.
This report described the cooperation between the municipal water supply company of Tanah Datar district in West Sumatra (PDAM Tanah Datar), and the commercial bank, PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (BRI). The two parties have entered into a Cooperation Agreement aimed at providing micro-credit to new PDAM customers for financing of water connections to the water company’s supply lines.
This document represents Quarterly Progress Report No. 3 of the Environmental Services Program, for the period October 1, through December 31, 2005. This report provides information on the initiation and execution of program activities in the regions covered by ESP.
The Studi from North Sumatra provides samples of steps taken during ESP’s Participatory Livelihood Assessment. At least 1,277 people from 56 community groups took part in the process. The case study recorded the process in a condensed way, from participant selection to action plant using North Sumatra site as the example. This report is only available in Bahasa Indonesia.
The report contains results and conclusions of ESP Watershed Management Workshop
In order to help GIS team perform effectively to operate vector & raster GIS software; develop, implement & communicate with spatial planning tools, monitor & report on project activities & results, this consultancy provided training in vector based software, introduction to some spatial planning methods used by DAI, introduction to project activity monitoring using internet mapping systems.