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UNESCO and the Equitable Education Fund (EEF) Thailand hosted the 8th Meeting of the Equitable Education Alliance (EEA) on the theme, ‘Monitoring and Evaluation towards Sustaining Equitable Education from the National to Local Levels in South-East Asia’, on August 31, 2023. The webinar emphasized the significance of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems in ensuring programme accountability to funding resources and achieving intended goals, while also promoting a culture of learning and adaptation.
Facilitated by Ms Purnima Gurung, Education Officer at UNICEF Nepal, the webinar featured presentations by three education practitioners: Ms Denni Puspa Purbasari, Executive Director of Kartu Prakerja; Ms Maud Seghers, Global Strategic Education Advisor at VVOB; and Mr Karthik Menon, Co-lead of the Measurement, Monitoring, and Evaluation Team and Lead, Operations for Elementary Government Partnerships, at Pratham Education Foundation. The speakers shared project outcomes and practical approaches to promote equitable education in India and Indonesia, as well as introduced the Education Scalability Checklist, by VVOB.
Opening Note
Dr Lars M. Sondergaard, Lead Economist at the World Bank, delivered opening remarks by underscoring the importance of utilizing Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in implementing educational interventions.
Kartu Prakerja
Ms Purbasari introduced Kartu Prakerja, a large-scale skills development programme initiated by President Joko Widodo in 2019. She highlighted how Indonesia's particular challenge is low productivity, with 90 per cent of the country's 145 million workforce lacking vocational training. Kartu Prakerja aims to empower at least 2 million workers by offering opportunities for upskilling, reskilling, and enhancing their competitiveness in the labour market.
Since its launch in 2020, Kartu Prakerja has served a dual purpose: 1) providing access to learning opportunities; and 2) offering temporary social assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme is open to all Indonesians between the age of 18 to 64. By way of collaborations with Indonesian training providers and the utilization of machine learning technology, Kartu Prakerja assists individuals in finding relevant training courses, enabling them to acquire credentials and receive job recommendations upon course completion.
Ms Purbasari emphasized that Prakerja operates with an annual budget of US$1.3 billion. To ensure programme quality, 85 compliance indicators have been implemented, and oversight is provided by universities, NGOs, other participants, and the general public. Experts, independent researchers, and institutions are involved to evaluate the programme's impact. A metadata database captures daily progress, while a real-time dashboard monitors the progress of individual learners.
In addition, Karta Prakerja has introduced Evaluation Surveys for Real-Time Reports to Policymakers and Evaluation Surveys for Beneficiaries, conducted at 30 days, 90 days, and the final day of training. Evaluation Surveys for Partners are conducted annually to assess participation. With an efficient monitoring and evaluation framework, Karta Prakerja has surveyed 17 million participants, and culled 14.5 million responses, resulting in a richly informative data pool. Over the course of three years, the number of individuals attending training in Indonesia has doubled, at last count reaching over 146.6 million attending in 2023.
