Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating an AusAID-funded HIV Program in Indonesia
| Author | Nurlan Silitonga,Suzanne Blogg,Danny Yatim,Palupi Widjajanti,James Blogg,Abby Ruddick,Ilisapeci Movono |
| Published date | 01 March 2013 |
| Date | 01 March 2013 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X1301300106 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
36 Evaluation Journal of Australasia, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013
Challenges of monitoring and evaluating an
AusAID-funded HIV program in Indonesia
AusAID’s HIV Cooperation Program for Indonesia commenced
in 2008 with the main aim of preventing the transmission of HIV.
This article describes the process of developing and carrying out
a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan to assess the outcomes
of a multi-component program. Lessons from the process include:
the need for a exible ‘living’ M&E plan; realistic target setting;
appropriate methods of M&E for dierent components; and the
need to involve implementing partners in the development of
tools; and the analysis of outcomes to improve the quality of data
and increase the likelihood of program responsiveness to ndings.
Introduction
The HIV Cooperation Program for Indonesia (HCPI) follows on from a previous
Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) funded HIV prevention
program in Indonesia, the Indonesian HIV Prevention and Care Project. For over
15 years AusAID has invested and provided support for HIV prevention, care
support and treatment in Indonesia. In doing this, the organization has used
a range of information to plan future directions, as well as to learn from past
program outcomes. As monitoring and evaluation results from previous projects
and activities contribute to the design of subsequent programs for funding, it is
important that these results are valid, reliable and of high quality and that the
M&E systems and processes are robust and sustainable.
The task of monitoring and evaluating a program consisting of a wide range
of activities and components required a corresponding range of tools. HCPI
consists of five components, all with significant capacity-building activities and all
warranting M&E input. These are the:
■Leadership Component consisting of support for institutional strengthening,
research, media, gender and voluntary counselling and testing surveillance for
HIV
■Injecting Drug User Component conducted in seven provinces with partners
including the Ministry of Health, Provincial and District Health Oces,
Community Service Organisations (CSO), community health centres, hospitals,
local and national police and the National Narcotics Board. Services supported
include methadone maintenance therapy as well as needle syringe programs
■Bali program for most at-risk populations, which is now managed by the
Provincial AIDS Commission, but support is provided to CSOs to address the
prevention of the sexual transmission of HIV for female sex workers, clients
of sex workers, men who have sex with men and transgender people, as well as
clinical mentoring of care, support and treatment programs.
■Prison Component that supports 11 model prisons and is focused on improving
networks with health services and training for prison ocials and peers
to provide HIV education to inmates, as well as increasing access to harm
reduction services
Suzanne Blogg
Abby Ruddick
Palupi Widjajanti
Danny Yatim
Nurlan Silitonga
James Blogg
Ilisapeci Movono
Evaluation Journal of Australasia, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2013, pp. 36–43
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