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. AIPD works with the central government as well as five provincial governments, namely Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara and East Java, and 20 district governments within those provinces, starting from 2011 to 2015.

The program focuses on resource management, covering both human and financial resources. AIPD creates an enabling environment for provincial and local governments to improve their performance so that sectoral initiatives to improve health, education and infrastructure services have a greater chance of success. At the same time, AIPD pilots new development models that can be replicated in other provinces and districts.

AIPD also plays a role in policy development. By capturing the real challenges that provincial and local governments face and presenting them as feedback to the central government, AIPD contributes to the development of better policy. In other words, AIPD helps make decentralisation work.


Three main components of AIPD:

* Builds the capacity of government stakeholders to more effectively allocate and manage available resources, particularly through developing improved public financial management, focussing on education, health and infrastructure services.
* Supports the generation, sharing and use of knowledge for development, particularly in the context of decentralisation and improved service delivery.
* Supports civil society stakeholders to more actively and effectively engage in and influence resource allocation and management and decision-making by local authorities (both executive and legislature), and enhance participation and representation of media and civil society organisations.