The purpose of DIALOG is to support sub-national governance following decentralisation reforms through piloting a system of providing incentives to local governments based on improvement in performance in public financial management and service delivery in health and education sectors. The project has a second goal of supporting the development of a local government monitoring and evaluation system.

The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Decentralisation (AIPD) supports the Government of Indonesia to improve the performance of provincial and local governments. More specifically, AIPD aims to improve public service provision in health, education and infrastructure.