USAID PRESTASI-3 Scholarship Program Progress Report Ninth Progress Report covering the period October-December 2016 Contract Number: AID-OAA-I-12-00009 Submitted by: Randy Martin, Chief of Party [email protected] +62-822-4595-4270 Project Office: Menara Imperium 28th Floor Kuningan Kav. 1. Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Jakarta 12980 Indonesia January 31, 2017 Table of Contents Page Contents 2 Acronyms 3 I. Introduction 4 II. Project Background 4 III. Project Field Office Administration 5 IV. Program Activities October – December 2016 6 4.1 Promotion of PRESTASI-3: Website and social media activity for the period October- 6 November- December 2016 4.2 PhD Scholarship Awardees Transferred to PRESTASI-3 8 4.3 Outreach Technical Assistance 9 4.4 Training Activities 11 4.4.1 Support and Logistics for Long-Term Scholars 12 4.4.2 Cohort-3: Pre-Academic Training in Jakarta: EAP, Statistics, and GRE 12 4.4.3 Short-Term Training 14 4.4.4 Placement Update 15 4.4.5 TraiNet updates 15 4.5 Monitoring & Evaluation Activities during October-November-December 2016 16 4.6 Activities anticipated for the next period January-February-March 2017 16 V. Appendix-1 Meetings, Updates, Trainings 18 Appendix-2 Status of the Performance Indicators Period October-December 2016 19 Appendix-3 PAT Monitoring Record: 21 participants in Long-term Training Cohort-3 27 Appendix-4 Participant Assessment of GRE Training 23 Appendix-5 Participant Assessment of STATA Training 24 Appendix-6 Post-Training Evaluation Cohort-1 University Connect 25 Appendix-7 Post-Training Evaluation Cohort-2 University Connect 27 2 Acronyms BAPPENAS Ministry of National Development Planning BPJS Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial (Health Insurance Agency) BUDI Scholarships for Lecturers in Indonesia COP Chief of Party COR Contracting Officer’s Representative DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DOT Development Objective Team DRG Democracy Rights Governance EAP English for Academic Purposes GOI Government of Indonesia IIE Institute of International Education IIEF Indonesian International Education Foundation IPB Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agriculture Institute) Jabodetabek The greater metropolitan area of Jakarta KALTIM Kalimantan Timur (the Province of East Kalimantan) Kemenkumham Ministry of Law and Human Rights Kemenristekdikti Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Technology KITAS Residence visa KPK Corruption Eradication Commission KY Judicial Commission LIPI Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) LoI Letter of Intent LPDP Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) LPSDM Lembaga Pengelola Sumber Daya Manusia (Institute for Human Resource Management) LTT Long-term Training M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MMAF Ministry of Marine Affairs & Fisheries MoU Memorandum of Understanding PAT Pre-Academic Training PNS Pegawai Negeri Sipil (Civil Servant) SEADI Support for Economic Analysis Development in Indonesia (USAID project) STT Short-term Training TA Technical Assistance TIRF Training Intervention Request Form TO USAID Technical Office TTI Teacher Training Institute PRESTASI Program to Extend Scholarships and Training to Achieve Sustainable Impacts PRIORITAS Prioritizing Reform, Innovation and Opportunities for Reaching Indonesia’s Teachers, Administrators and Students (USAID Basic Education program) RISTEKDIKTI Research and Technology Department of the Ministry of Higher Education USAID United States Agency for International Development USG Government of the United States of America 3 I. Introduction USAID/Indonesia continued the PRESTASI-II program, which provided opportunities for academic degrees and technical training to Indonesian professionals, with the award of PRESTASI-3 to IIE. Through the development of the expertise of targeted staff members in key sectors, PRESTASI-3 continues the objective to help organizations and institutions acquire the knowledge, skills, and capacity to support Indonesia’s on-going development and the achievement of the Mission’s development objectives. This program is funded by USAID/Indonesia’s five Development Objective Teams (DOTs) Economic Growth, Education, Environment, Democratic Governance, and Health. The objective is to support the implementation of the Mission’s programmatic strategy to improve, strengthen, and increase Indonesian health systems, management of natural resources, access to and quality of education, democratic governance, and employment opportunities. PRESTASI-3 implements and manages programs in Indonesia and in the United States. PRESTASI works closely with the Education Office in particular and all Mission Technical Teams in general (Economic Growth, Environment, Democratic Governance, and Health) to do the following: 1. With the DOTs, identify the sectors within their Indonesian partner organizations, and other recommended public and private organizations, where expertise is required for activities and programs to achieve GOI and USAID objectives. 2. Identify key personnel who display both technical aptitude and leadership qualities as participants in long-term and short-term training. 3. Select scholar candidates to pursue graduate degrees in the United States, and participants for short-term technical training in the United States, Indonesia, and in other countries. II. Project Background The goal of the USAID PRESTASI-3 Scholarship Program is to improve the performance and leadership skills of Indonesian professionals, which, in turn, will help to promote development in Indonesia and the achievement of the Mission’s Development Objectives under the 2009-2014 Mission Strategic Plan. Specifically, PRESTASI-3 provides training and technical services required to strengthen and expand the base of skilled, high-performing professionals and institutions in Indonesia’s public and private sectors. The major expected outcomes from the implementation of PRESTASI-3 are to: 1. Create an expanded cadre of skilled leaders and managers who can disseminate new knowledge and skills within priority sectors and therefore advance key development objectives; 2. Develop new and advanced management skills, technical capacity, and knowledge within targeted public/private institutions and GOI ministries which will encourage more efficient, transparent, and accountable practices across the assisted sectors, thereby encouraging greater economic growth; 3. Produce leaders who will 1) apply newly acquired skills at their places of work, and 2) share new skills, knowledge and perceptions with colleagues and the broader community, thereby maximizing the impact of training; 4. Increase coordination among GOI institutions, local institutions, USG Agencies and other donor organizations; 5. Encourage the development of more efficient, transparent, and accountable practices in managing resources, leading to better service delivery; 6. Increase the level of good will and cultural understanding between Indonesia and the United States, through study and training in the United States, 7. Increase the number of future Indonesian leaders holding advanced degrees (Masters) from U.S. universities, and 8. Increase the number of women and individuals from disadvantaged and/or under-represented geographic areas (particularly outside of Java and Bali) participating in the program. 4 III. Project Field Office Administration October-December 2016 Office schedule: The PRESTASI-3 field office was closed on two days on the occasion of Indonesian national holidays: December 12 for Mouled Al Nebi, and December 26 for Christmas (Observed). IIE Home Office Jonah Kokodyniak, IIE Senior Vice President for Strategic Development, visited the USAID Visit to Jakarta projects managed by IIE in Jakarta. The purpose of his visit was to provide Home-Office support Dec 14-16, 2016 to the field-office teams, to touch-base with USAID project supervisors, and to meet with education institutions with whom future cooperation might be possible. During his visit he conferred with the IIEF Board of Directors, the Director of LPDP, the chiefs of party of PRESTASI-II, PRESTASI-3, and SHERA, the Director of the USAID Education Office, officials at the Ministry of Higher Education & Research, the Head of the Center of Learning at BAPPENAS, and the USAID Project Assessment Team managed by Management Systems International. USAID USAID approved international travel for two PRESTASI-3 field staff, DCOP/IIE Yos Sudarso Regional Training in Usman Putra and International Training Specialist/IIEF Krystina Mitayani, to participate in the Bangkok, Thailand USAID three-day training on ADS 252, ADS 253 and TraiNet system. Nov 29-Dec 01, 2016 The PRESTASI-3 trainees were joined by USAID and contractor staff from Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and others from Indonesia. The training was conducted by Ethel Brooks from USAID/Washington, and Travis Walden of Rivera, Inc. USAID In-country After the Bangkok training, Ethel Brooks and Travis Walden continued to Jakarta where Training for they met with individual contractors implementing the Mission’s programs. The PRESTASI-3 PRESTASI-3 on COP, along with the PRESTASI 3 COR and ACOR, briefed Ethel Brooks on the status of Dec 05, 2016 PRESTASI-3’s progress at the mid-point of the project’s timeline, and described some of the challenges that IIE and IIEF have met in recruiting applicants under two systems (open and closed recruitment), in seeking co-funding for PRESTASI scholarships, and in dealing with requests for dependents to travel to the U.S. to join PRESTASI-3 scholars for temporary visits. Travis Walden conducted