Public Private Partnership Activity Summary

Activities

Currently, USAID/Indonesia has over 15 partnerships consisting of over $44 million in private sector resources, in addition to USAID’s funding. There are numerous partnerships in each of the program areas of democratic and decentralized governance; economic growth; basic human services; Education, and post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Partners

To date, USAID has partnered with the following companies and organizations:

• AIG 
• Microsoft
• AmeriCares Foundation 
• Mobil Cepu
• Blommer Chocolate 
• Mars
• BP 
• Olam International
• Chevron (Unocal) 
• The Nature Conservancy
• Coca-Cola 
• SECID
• ConocoPhillips 
• Voxiva
• ExxonMobil 
• Winrock
• Gap Inc. 
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US)
• Johns Hopkins University (Bloomberg)

Partnership “Wish List”

Below are short descriptions of unfulfilled needs in some of the areas in which USAID works. If you are interested in learning more about any of these potential partnerships, please contact Payton Deeks at pdeeks[at]usaid.gov.

Sector: Education

Training math teachers. USAID’s Decentralized Basic Education program is inviting interested businesses to support life skills education training for mathematics teachers. Improving the mathematics teachers’ teaching skills will lead to school graduates who can use mathematics skills competently in their daily lives as customers, employees, and productive members of societies. The program will train mathematics teachers to teach their subject in active and student-focused ways that meet national standard for education and build life skills. With only $ 200,000, around 20 schools will be able to train more than 150 mathematics teachers in DBE’s partner junior secondary schools and in the mathematics teachers’ network to which they belong. It will also reach over 5000 junior secondary students.

Integrating ICT. USAID’s Decentralized Basic Education is seeking a partnership with one or more companies to provide an integrated approach to Information and Communication Technology. Ideally the partnership would consist of all aspects of ICT Education, ranging from teacher training to equipment provision.

Growing capacities of school committees. USAID’s Decentralized Basic Education program is seeking a partnership to support the implementation of the school committee capacity development program in eight major provinces of Indonesia (Aceh, North Sumatra, Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Central Java, East Java, and South Sulawesi). With only $270,000, approximately 24,000 people in 2,000 public and private schools (including madrasah) would receive training and technical assistance which would tangibly improve school management and governance, education management and classroom teaching practices.

Sector: Economic Growth

Improving innovation in SMEs. USAID’s SENADA project aims to improve the business and investment climates and promote key industry clusters’ competitiveness, productivity, and access to domestic and world markets. The project is currently focusing on auto parts, furniture, garments, and footwear and improving innovation in these sectors. The project seeks to have end-users of product provide feedback to those earlier in the value chain—one idea is having a private-sector sponsor of an Innovation Competition.

Increasing competitiveness in agriculture. USAID’s AMARTA project focuses on improving productivity and quality, the keys to upgrading agribusiness value chains in Indonesia. The private sector could partner with the AMARTA project in a variety of ways, including supporting small-scale agriculture and improving competitiveness.

Sector: Environment

Conserving orangutan habitat. A tentative contract for supporting the conservation of orangutan populations in both Sumatra and Kalimantan will seek partnerships among government institutions, conservation organizations, communities, the private sector and concerned individuals in order to address threats to orangutans. 

Sector: Health

Improving maternal and child health. USAID’s Health Services Program (HSP) is keen to investigate potential partnerships associated with child and maternal health.

Breaking records by handwashing with soap. Diarrhea continues to be the second largest killer of children under the age of give in Indonesia. Proper hand washing with soap is one of the best ways to reduce diarrhea. In order to raise awareness of this simple yet vital action, USAID hopes to set a national record for the most people washing their hands with soap at one time on May 6, 2007. We are currently looking for sponsors and welcome cash or in-kind donations such as towels, t-shirts, box lunches, drinks, prizes, transportation for schoolchildren, and entertainment.

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