Monitoring and Evaluating the Performance of the Raskin Programme in Banten

22 September 2015

The Food Security and Counseling Agency, Banten in its capacity as the local Raskin Coordination team conducted training on the Raskin programme on September 17, 2015 in Cilegon. The training session was attended by representatives of the Raskin Coordination Team, TKPK, and TKSK.

Speakers at the training session included Imelda Leiwakabessy and Rizal Adi Prima, National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K). With her presentation, Imelda provided a general description of the poverty alleviation strategy as well as an explanation of how the Raskin mechanism works, as stipulated in the general guidelines on Raskin.

Trainers also took this opportunity to introduce the Raskin Management Information System (MIS) which monitored Raskin implementation between January and March 2015. The MIS can be used to monitor Raskin at every level of implementation including the provincial, district, subdistrict, village and household level. Coordination between the provincial Raskin Coordination team and the TKPKD is expected to synergize programme monitoring, as regulated by the Raskin General Guidelines 2015.

In a follow up session, Rizal presented on the various aspects of monitoring and evaluating the Raskin programme. According to him, local governments can participate periodically in monitoring exercises conducted by the national government. Local governments therefore needed to commit part of their APBD to monitoring poverty alleviation programmes.

The Raskin Coordination Team, TKPK and TKSK are similarly tasked to monitor Raskin implementation. Such a training activity therefore served a number of institutions/working units and should be held regularly to improve coordination and synergy in terms of programme management and monitoring.