AID's Role in Indonesian Family Planning: A Case Study with General Lessons for Foreign Assistance

摘要

The AID-financed family planning program in Indonesia is one of the world's most successful, prompting the question of how to replicate that success in other family planning assistance programs. This report uses data collected from field visits and interviews to evaluate AID's assistance to the Indonesian program and identify the underlying reasons for its success. The report describes the program's service network, its consumers, demographic impact, and AID inputs. A sociocultural study of the country shows that high population growth, administrative support, and community acceptance are the three factors whose convergence most favored the project's success. The history and description of the program, particularly the types and extent of service, are given. AID's support is described in terms of leadership, commodities, organization, resources, local-cost programming method, and interagency linkage.