The Indonesia Governance for Growth project, known as KOMPAK, is an innovative approach to reducing poverty and inequality by improving basic services and increasing economic opportunities for Indonesia’s most poor and vulnerable people.

KOMPAK – an Australia-Indonesia Government partnership – works both upstream and downstream to affect government system performance, and focuses on improving the formal and informal rules of the game that influence, if not determine, individual and collective decision making. At its heart, KOMPAK is a program aimed at institutional transformation.

Implemented across 26 districts and 311 villages across seven provinces, KOMPAK is helping to build the systems needed to deliver responsive and accountable frontline services, encouraging community-driven development at the village level, and helping to diversify employment opportunities.

By piloting new approaches, using evidence and analysis to drive activities, and working with community cadres, local organisations and village institutions, as well as national and sub-national governments, KOMPAK is empowering communities to develop, implement and lead solutions to improve their system of governance.

Visit the KOMPAK web site (in Indonesian).