Terms of Reference: Consultancy for Co-Creation & Implementation Support (Indonesia)

October 15, 2024

Background

As a global partnership with 75 national and over 150 local participants, the success of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) will be measured by its ability to address key societal challenges such as endemic corruption and poor service delivery through transformative open government reforms. This requires helping countries to broaden ownership, raise ambition, and ensure credible implementation of open government reforms. Reformers from government and civil society have an opportunity to improve government performance through the co-creation and implementation of two-year action plans with concrete policy reforms on a number of governance-related themes, including justice, civic space, and anti-corruption. To do this successfully, reformers across OGP need to strengthen context-specific political, technical and financial drivers of reform in their countries and locals.

The consultant will work directly with the Open Government Indonesia (OGI) Secretariat and the Steering Committee, in regular coordination with the OGP Support Unit to ensure deliverables are aligned towards helping Indonesia meet OGP’s co-creation standards and best practices.

Scope of Work and Deliverables

Deliverable 1: Working plan and timeline for the co-creation process (Nov-Dec 2024)
Support the Open Government Indonesia (OGI) Secretariat to work on a working plan to guide the co-creation process. This includes assessing the co-creation timeline and planned activities to identify and suggest points for improvements to the OGI Secretariat to ensure the co-creation process is purposefully designed to accommodate the needs of the stakeholders and the lessons learned from action plan cycles to date.

Deliverable 2: Support the OGI Community in the co-creation of Indonesia’s 8th NAP (Jan-June 2025)

1. Review the co-creation process and planned activities and provide recommendations to improve activities that aim to raise awareness, engage new stakeholders (both government and civil society), improve OGI governance structure and processes, and strategically align OGI activities with relevant national processes/programs including the RPJMN and RKP 2025.
2. Support Indonesia’s co-creation process, help organize consultation meetings and discussions, collect inputs and provide feedback to stakeholders on their contribution, and ensure that the ambition of the OGP Participation and Co-creation Standards are met.
3. Provide feedback and advice on commitment planning, design and finalization, implementation planning and monitoring and evaluations processes and workshops to ensure the commitments are well designed, result oriented and have the necessary implementation buy-in from relevant stakeholders.
4. Provide thematic policy area-focused technical guidance and support to OGP stakeholders in-country to design and implement policy solutions for select policy area issues.

Deliverable 3: Create a co-creation guidelines document for Indonesia (Jan-July 2025)
Based on observations from the current co-creation process, document the process as reference for future co-creation guidelines. This document should include, but not limited to the following: key steps to consider, good practices to be continued, what did not work, recommendations for future iterations of the process, and lessons learned, based on current and previous action plan cycles.

Terms of the Consultancy

• Duration: November 2024 to August 2025, part time, on average for 3 days a week.
• Reporting To: Dewi Barnas, Senior Regional Coordinator, Asia Pacific. Weekly check-in between OGP SU and the consultant.
• Fee structure: Fixed fee of 1200 EUR per month, based on detailed progress report on deliverables mentioned below. Total capped at EUR 12,000, payable based on output-related milestones that will be agreed with the consultant. Local travel expenses reimbursable up to EUR 1000 for the duration of the contract, based on prior approval with OGP SU.
• Location: The consultant will be based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Qualifications, Requirements and Skills

Required

• Existing networks with Indonesian government and civil society stakeholders.
• Significant experience in working on open government or good governance related policy areas, and coordinating with government, civil society, and private sector
• Ability to navigate complex situations, listening to both sides, and proposing solutions
• Strong project management and coordination skills
• Excellent research skills, with previous experience of conducting research combining desk research, surveys, interviews etc.
• Strong deductive, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and ability to write reports in English and Indonesian
• Has the right to work in Indonesia

Desirable

• Understanding of how OGP’s global platform and national level process works

How to Apply

• Please submit a cover letter, current CV and an example of past work related to open government or good governance in Indonesia, as attachments to dewi.barnas@opengovpartnership.org. Please add “Indonesia Consultant for Co-Creation and Implementation Support” to the subject of your email.
• Applications will be accepted until 30 October 2024. Applicants are encouraged to submit their materials as soon as possible.
• Because of the volume of applications, we will not be able to respond to every applicant. We thank applicants in advance for their expressions of interest.