ESP will work with the Government of Indonesia, the private sector, NGOs, community groups and other stakeholders to strengthen watershed management and the key environmental services through four interrelated project objectives:

1.To strengthen the capacity of communities, governments, the private sector, local institutions, and NGOs to advocate for expanded delivery of key environmental services through improved water resources and protected areas management

2.To expand opportunities for communities, NGOs, private sector and universities to participate more effectively in local management of water resources and delivery of key environmental services

3.To strengthen biodiversity conservation through improving understanding and appreciation for the linkage between protected and forested areas and the delivery of key environmental services; and

4.To improve health and livelihoods of Indonesians through improved and expanded access to key environmental services (water, sanitation, solid waste) through the use of appropriate technologies, innovative financing, environmentally sustainable best practices, and sustainable market oriented activities

Central to the above-described program will be a coordinated, collaborative and integrated approach involving all of the programs of the Basic Human Services Offices of USAID. In order to more effectively impact the success rate of BHS programs, it makes eminent sense to assure as much synergy within the program as possible.

The ESP project is committed to work closely with and in parallel to other relevant BHS programs such as, but not limited to:

• The BHS Health Flagship Project
• The Development Assistance Programs (DAP)
• The Safe Water Systems (SWS) Project

In addition, the ESP program intends to collaborate very closely with other relevant programs of related USAID Strategic Objectives, such as the Local Government Support Program under SO 3 above. In particular, the ESP program will make every endeavor to coordinate site selections in the two prime areas of the BHS program, namely, High Priority Provinces (HPP) and Special Concerns and Imperative Areas (SIA).