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Umihanik a.k.a Jellyjuice
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Umi Hanik is professional in development evaluation who has been working for many bilateral/multilateral organisations in Indonesia for the past 17 years. She holds BA and master of economics in public policy and pursuing advanced master/predoctoral studies in development evaluation. She works as M&E specialist for Asian Development Bank (ADB) program with Mercy Corps International on a national strategy to promote agritech 4.0 informations extension for smallholder farmers to cope with extreme climate in Indonesia from Oct 2018-Jan 2020. Currently she also serves as evaluation consultant for KSI-DFAT, GIZ-PAKLIM, DREAM-JICA, SSC-JICA until April 2020.
Among her outstanding works, she has contributed to the national development planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation reforms in Indonesia. Her current research interest is in the politics of evaluation and the politics of social interventions for the poor.
And along with her professional career, she has contributed to the evaluation society by motivating, supporting, and mentoring young and emerging evaluators in Indonesia. She has also very active in the effort of establishing the national/regional evaluation association. She is the founding members of Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC)*, Board Directors of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA)**, and Management members of EvalGender+***.
Being adaptive with 4.0 industrial revolution call and during her evalreflection, in April 2018 she starting to develop MONEVStudio, a startup to promote sustainable development and evaluation literacy and inclusiveness.
P.s. MONEV is a popular acronym in Indonesia for MONitoring and Evaluation.
Drop her an email at umi.hanik@outlook.com for her latest cv.
*) InDEC (http://indec.or.id/index.php/79-profile/71-profile-of-indec) is a Voluntary Organization for Professional Evaluation (VOPE) was founded on June 4th 2009 aiming at promoting qualified M&E professional; to enhance knowledge, capacity, and experience sharing among M&E professionals in Indonesia; and to promote better M&E practice for the development process in Indonesia, regional and international. Full profile/history read here http://www.ioce.net/en/PDFs/national/2012/Indonesia_InDEC_CaseStudy.pdf
**) https://www.facebook.com/AsiaPacificEvaluationAssociationApea/
***) https://www.evalpartners.org/evalgender
Towards Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation System: Learning from Failures of the Monitoring and Evaluation System of School Operational Assistance (BOS) Program in Indonesia*
Paper Presentation for 6th Malaysian Evaluation Society (MES) International M&E Conference, March 24-28 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia**
Umi Hanik, SE, ME***
Abstract
As mandated by the law, Government of Indonesia has an obligation to finance basic education without charging fees. In 2005, with the introduction of Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS, School Operational Assistance), all schools received sufficient operational funds amounting USD 600 Billion per year to waive or reduce parents’ contributions. BOS objective was to improve access to quality education for all children of ages 7 to 15 by strengthening school-based management (SBM) and community participation, improving existing fiduciary arrangements for greater transparency and accountability of the BOS program and, bringing better utilization of BOS funds.
During 2005-2008, the introduction of Results-based M&E (RBM) concept into BOS M&E system is less successful. The system, instrument, resources, and the practices didn’t support the spirit of RBM. Afterward, during 2009-2012, effort to improve and strengthen the RBM system took place. Some works emphasize the reform of the M&E design that involve BOS management teams at the central, provincial and district levels. Outcome statement and key performance indicators are redefined. Internal monitoring and external monitoring with different focus of M&E are improved and strengthened. The M&E system supported with an automate and user-friendly excel-based application, generating BOS data progress and update on results from the schools up to national level to feed BOS decision makers with instant and sound information on BOS results.
However, reform and learning from failures is not an instant process. Providing a user-friendly application for day-to-day basis is significant. Technical assistance, intensive nurturing and coaching for two years full is valuable to change the old behavior. Participative approach for the engagement and continuous learning is the foundation to ensure compliance.
*) Disclaimer: The paper is
shared mainly for knowledge sharing and academic purposes. None of the
concepts, approaches, or statements in this paper should be taken as any
official viewpoint of neither the Government of Indonesia nor any other agency
mentioned in the paper.
**) Summarized and rewrite from
BOS KITA M&E Capacity Development proceeding 2009-2012. The project is led
by Budi Rahardjo as team leader/lead author and Umi Hanik as the M&E
specialist/co-author. BOS KITA M&E Capacity Development is a World Bank
funded project that support the Ministry of Education and Culture Indonesia.
Credit to Budi Rahardjo;
Nurhidayat, and Krisdianto Siahaan.
***)
Co-founder
and board members of Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC);
Currently working as Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist for Poverty
Reduction Support Facility (PRSF) an Australian Aid Initiative project in
Indonesia managed by GRM International on behalf of the Australian Government
The Utilization of Climate Change M&E Results for Evidence-Based Negotiations and Policy Making Advisory: Learnt from Indonesia*
Paper presentation for the 7th AfrEA (African Evaluation Association) International Conference, March 3-7, 2014, Yaoundé - Cameroon**
Umi Hanik, SE, ME***
Abstract
Current greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction pledges fall short of the targets needed to be on track for limiting global temperature rises by 2°C and 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (CAT, 2011). In 2009, the Government of Indonesia set a target to reduce GHG emissions by 26% up to 41% by 2020. Up to now, Indonesia also face many hurdles in carrying out its climate change agenda and to reduce the emission as targeted. The situation will affect Indonesia position in international level. Therefore, for policy-making and international negotiations, Indonesia need strong evidence through the accuracy of information and reporting provided by the M&E system in the country.
Platform and protocol of M&E to support climate change negotiations and policy making advisory at international or national level is essential for: building trust; assessing the effectiveness of country actions against international and domestic targets; generating national emissions data; and achieving environmental integrity and good climate governance. In Indonesia, such function is the mandate of National Council for Climate Change (NCCC). To be able to implement such mandate, the NCCC is expected to utilize the existing M&E platform and the MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) protocol.
Indonesia is a big country that has long experiences with M&E. However, M&E is not easy due to the complexity of the many parties that involve in the M&E of climate change agenda. Hence, assessment of the feasibility and agreement among climate change stakeholder beforehand is needed. The paper promotes the Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE) checklist by Michael Quinn Patton and Strategic Learning Value Chain by Pietersen to assess all respective stakeholder involvement in the M&E climate change and for possible utilization of their M&E results.
The approach helped the NCCC to address the complexity; define their M&E framework; and to shape what are the significant elements to effectively manage the utilization of national climate change M&E resources.
For full paper, email me at umihanik[at]gmail[dot]com.
*) Disclaimer: The paper is individual thought and is shared mainly for knowledge sharing and for academic purposes. None of the concepts, approaches, or statements in this paper should be taken as any official viewpoint of neither the Government of Indonesia nor any other agency mentioned in the paper. **) The paper is rewrite from the original one “Toward the Utilization of National Climate Change M&E for Policy Making Advisory, JICA for DNPI, Final Report 4th November 2013” and is based on the current initiatives of developing the NCCC M&E Framework under the support of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) for the “Rapid Assessment on the Existing M&E Systems of Climate Change in Indonesia”, a recent study where the writer acts as the author ***) M&E (Monitoring & Evaluation) professional with further expertise in the Public policy planning and budgeting since 2002. Holding Master of Economics in Public Policy and is currently working under the Poverty Reduction Support Facility (PRSF) project in Indonesia. Playing active role in the initiation of Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA). Founding members and now acting as Chair for Department of Networking and Advocacy Indonesian Development Evaluation Community (InDEC). Has been working for many different projects with bilateral and multilateral agency in Indonesia.
