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SMERU Newsletter No. 1/2019

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SMERU Newsletter No. 2/2019

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Village Fund Utilization

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SMERU Newsletter No. 1/2019

This edition of SMERU’s newsletter disseminates research results on youth and children while focusing on a topic relatively rarely discussed by the public. First, about youth’s role in development, which often has a nuance of mere jargon. In a collaborative study between SMERU and the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), youth is viewed as both object and subject of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Indonesian Youth Law.

Village Fund Spending

We begin this edition with the results of SMERU and LSP-WB‘s monitoring of the Village Fund (VF) and Village Fund Allocation (ADD) spending. Since 2015, SMERU carried out a three-year monitoring of ten villages in Sumatra, Java, and Nusa Tenggara. This is considered important because in 2016 the government disbursed 47 trilion rupiahs of VF, and two years later the figure rose almost 1.5-fold. In addition, the amount of ADD continued to increase.

Child Multidimensional Poverty in Indonesia

In general poverty reduction uses two approaches: economic development to increase income, and community empowerment to improve the capacity of human resources. The success of poverty reduction schemes is determined, among others, by its policy and targeting accuracy. The policy can be targeted at the community, family, or individual which is disaggregated by age and gender.

From MDGs to SDGs: Lessons Learned and Tangible Steps Forward

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are recognized as the global development agenda with a wider and more inclusive mandate than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which ended in 2015. The SDGs differed to the MDGs as the latter were formulated by experts from member states of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and some international institutions. The SDGs, on the other hand, were adopted out of an agreement between all 193 member states of the United Nations along with input from the civil society and various relevant stakeholders.

Reformulating the National Strategy for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction

Tahun ini Buletin SMERU terbit dengan format baru. Lebih ringkas dan terfokus menyoroti hasil dan rekomendasi studi-studi The SMERU Research Institute. Buletin ini juga tampil hanya dalam bahasa Indonesia, untuk mengutamakan penjangkauan kepada pemangku kepentingan di dalam negeri. Buletin versi bahasa Inggris akan kami sediakan pada situs web SMERU untuk pembaca mancanegara yang memiliki minat terhadap isu-isu sosial-ekonomi di Indonesia.

Community Coping Strategies for Facing Food Price Volatility

Early this year The SMERU Research Institute completed its research on food price volatility. The objective of this research was to document the experiences of the poor in facing sudden and uncertain changes in food price. The study was conducted in three villages, each in Kabupaten Bekasi, Kabupaten Cianjur, and Kabupaten Banjar, from 2012 to 2016.

Newsletter No. 1: November 1998

Welcome to the first edition of SMERU's regular monthly newsletter. Why a newsletter? Because we believe that having information spread and discussed as widely as possible is a central part of creating the social conditions for addressing the social crisis. This newsletter hopes to not only distribute as widely as possible our qualitative and quantitative findings but also the views and findings of other individuals and groups, including some we may not agree with in the spirit of open discussion.

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