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INDONESIA (empowerment rural)

A program such as the National Community Empowerment Program (NCEP) promotes many social and managerial practices that are considered to be more enlightened than practices normally found in activities carried out by the community or by previous local contractors. Instruments and procedures are created or established to ensure that better practices are actually carried out, and this is called SAFEGUARDS.

A description of existing safeguards in NCEP should be preceded by a discussion of what makes a good and useful safeguard. Any safeguard should be written with these in mind, and any existing safguard should be re-written to reflect these. Discussion of safeguards below will refer to these criteria.

NCEP is a program that has a huge number of associated forms, instruments, and procedure that consume the limited time of field facilitators to fill out, with a tendency to add additional forms whenever it seems that some aspect of the program has been overlooked. No one in the field would ever say that there are not enough forms, but most would be more likely to suggest new forms than to eliminate old ones. Because there are so many, it is crucial that each one be made a simple as possible and be designed to be as easy as possible to fill out and use.