The Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Project aims to improve poor children's overall development and readiness for further education within a sustainable quality ECED system. The project consists of the following components: Component 1: The community-driven development approach has been proven to be an effective mode of service delivery to poor communities. Fifty districts chose to participate in the project were selected.

To contribute to the improvement of the overall quality and performance of teachers through enhancing teachers' knowledge of subject matter and pedagogical skills in the classroom.

The project will focus on four priority areas: (i) manufacturing; (ii) agro-business (iii) infrastructure and (iv) energy and mining.

BASICS is a key CIDA project that is helping to improve decentralized local governance in Sulawesi. BASICS focuses primarily on capacity development at the district/city level to assist governments and/or legilative councils in exercising their roles and responsibilities to plan and budget for the delivery of social services. At the provincial level, the project is helping to provide improved guidance, support and supervision to the districts/cities within their jurisdiction.