Decent Work and PRSP

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Decent Work and PRSP

• The Indonesia Experience

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PRSP in Indonesia

• Not your typical PRSP country
• Low/middle income, no HIPC, marginal ODA
• Lingering trauma from Asia financial crisis
• Highly decentralised, very large 230 million
  people on 14,000 islands
• Process has been drawn-out and complex PRSP
  connect to overall government planning and
  budgeting uncertain
• Central to ILO programme, represents a major
  investment

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Dr. Arifin Rudiyanto, Head PRSP team in National
Planning Ministry
ILO inputs objective and digestible. Provided
ideas on employment-poverty link. Need for more
detailed analysis on poverty impact for some
recommendations 
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ILO helped to bring unions together on
socio-economic policy. We need more support to
develop viable policy alternatives 
Timbul Siregard, Head Advocacy, ASPEK
Union Chair of TU Network on PRSP
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18 months ago I did not know ILO had an office
in Jakarta We copied ILOs idea of the Technical
Briefing Notes NGOs quote ILOs participatory
process as a model
Cathy McPherson, PRSP Team World Bank Jakarta
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Return on Investment ?

• ILO is now an established development partner
  in new fora
• Credibility as a technical agency
• Hooks into Government planning and budgeting
• BUT
• No new projects yet nor
• shifted Government budget allocations

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Does having a DWCP help ?

• Gave us technical credibility, articulated in a
  coherent way
• DW not an agenda to push, but a platform from
  which to engage
• ILO CP process still immature and flawed, need to
  learn from others, overhaul PB systems
• Constituents and GB not really on-board the PRS
  train or into making choices.

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Our next steps

• Nov-Dec
• Follow-through ILO recipes into government
  budgeting process (MTEF money for DW)
• Sustain the TU Network on PRSP to get increased
  TU coalescence
• Position ILS within national HR framework
• 2005
• Base new DWCP on new Governments Mid-Term Plan
  (takes care of PRS, MDG, UNDAF, ...)
• Underpin our employment message evidence,
  programme development

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What I would want

• Top quality ILO economists with us on the ground
• Less global ILO initiatives to worry about so we
  can concentrate
• Local constituents and GB that agrees to make
  choices and stick with them