Early Warning and Rapid Response System. Final Technical Note

摘要

Indonesias highly successful family planning program has shifted responsibility and authority for family planning (FP) and population program management to the district level. The National Family Planning Coordination Board (BKKBN) was mandated by law to transfer responsibility for many of its key functions for the national program to the district/municipality level by 1 January 2004. Since the decentralization of FP program the major challenge for BKKBN was to maintain the existing monitoring system. With decentralization, BKKBN was no longer receiving regular reports from around the country. Districts were less interested in regularly collecting and reporting program data for the BKKBN, especially since they were no longer obligated to do so. It was agreed by MSH, STARH and BKKBN that there was a need for a special early warning system to operate in parallel with the existing routine monitoring systems, at least for the first year of decentralization; and for a rapid response system, that could take action and offer assistance to districts when problems were detected. Therefore, it was decided to design an Early Warning and Rapid Response System (EWRRS) to operate at the national program level. The main purpose of the EWRRS was to provide basic information to policy makers at the central and province levels of BKKBN on how the FP program is performing after decentralization, so they could identify where problems were emerging as early as possible and help districts address these problems in a timely fashion.