Evaluation of The Indonesia University Partnerships Program p2

EVALUATION OF THE INDONESIA
UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM:

PHASE TWO –PARTNERSHIPS #3 AND #4
Final Report
August 27, 2013
This report was independently produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development by
International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) and sub-contractor the Aguirre Division of JBS
International, Inc. under Task Order AID-497-TO-12-00004 of the Evaluation Services IQC. The authors are Dr.
Kenneth Tolo, Dr. Frank Dall, Dr. Dwatmadji, and Ms. Dian Rachmawati. The authors’ views expressed in this report
do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States
Government.
IBTCI/JBS International - Evaluation of Indonesia University Partnerships #3 and #4
EVALUATION OF THE
INDONESIA UNIVERSITY
PARTNERSHIPS: PROGRAM:
PHASE TWO –
PARTNERSHIPS #3 AND #4
FINAL REPORT
August 27, 2013
Prepared by
Kenneth Tolo, Team Leader
Frank Dall
Dwatmadji
Dian Rachmawati
DISCLAIMER:
The authors’ views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States
Agency for International Development or the United States government.
Contents
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................... IV
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................
I. INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................... 1
PROJECT BACKGROUND .............................................................................................................................1
PURPOSES OF THE EVALUATION ..............................................................................................................1
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS .......................................................................... 2
ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT ...........................................................................................................2
II. TROPICAL PLANT CURRICULUM (TPC) PARTNERSHIP ............................................................................ 3
TPC PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................3
PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT....................................................................................................................................................... 3
PARTNERSHIP FUNDING ................................................................................................................................................................. 4
PARTNERSHIP PARTICIPANTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 4
EVALUATION QUESTION #1. PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED .......................................... 6
TPC PARTICIPANTS’ SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE.................................................................................................................... 6
TPC INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING ............................................................................................................................ 6
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7
EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES ...................8
EFFECTIVE TAMUS INTERVENTIONS ........................................................................................................................................... 8
EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP PRACTICES ......................................................................................................................................... 9
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS ............................... 10
UNANTICIPATED TAMUS CONTRIBUTIONS........................................................................................................................ 10
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY 12
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 14
EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ..................... 15
STRENGTHS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
WEAKNESSES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 16
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 16
CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 17
III. THE HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK RING INITIATIVE (HENRI) PARTNERSHIP ...................... 19
THE HENRI PARTNERS AND FINANCIAL REPORT ........................................................................... 19
THE HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (HSPH) ...................................................................................................... 19
SEAMEO RECFON-UI ....................................................................................................................................................................... 19
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL INDONESIA (HKI) ......................................................................................................... 20
UNIVERSITAS ANDALAS (UNAND) ........................................................................................................................................... 20
UNIVERSITAS MATARAM AND SUMMIT INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT (UNRAM-SID) ....................................... 20
HENRI FINANCIAL REPORT ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
INDONESIAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS ................................................................................................. 22

HENRI’S NATIONAL CHALLENGE .......................................................................................................... 23
HENRI PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................... 23
EVALUATION QUESTION #1. PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED ....................................... 23
OBJECTIVE 1: ESTABLISH AN ACTIVE EDUCATIONAL DATA REPOSITORY AND ACCESS PORTAL ............. 23
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 25
OBJECTIVE 2: DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A CURRICULUM FOR TRAINING .......................................................... 25
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 27
OBJECTIVE 3: ENHANCE CAPACITY AND PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING .......................... 27
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 30
EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES ................ 30
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 31
EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS ............................... 31
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 32
EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY 32
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................................................................... 32
DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH SERVICES ......................................................................................................................... 33
REFEREED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 33
PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ................................................................................................................................................ 33
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 34
EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ..................... 34
STRENGTHS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
WEAKNESSES ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
FINDINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 37
CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 37
IV. RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 39
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................ 39
TPC PARTNERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................... 40
HENRI PARTNERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................... 41
A LOOK AHEAD ............................................................................................................................................ 42
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS......... 42
FUTURE OF USAID US-INDONESIA UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS........................................................... 43
ANNEX A. SCOPE OF WORK ............................................................................................................................... 44
ANNEX B. WORK PLAN AND CALENDAR ..................................................................................................... 48
ANNEX C. INDIVIDUALS INTERVIEWED .......................................................................................................... 53
ANNEX D. TPC SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION.......................................................................................... 65
ANNEX E. HENRI SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 68
ANNEX F. TPC PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW GUIDE (JUNE 2013) ............................................................... 69
ANNEX G. HENRI PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW GUIDE (JUNE 2013) ......................................................... 74
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ANNEX H. EVALUATION TEMPLATE FOR KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW GUIDES (KIIGS) (JUNE
2013) .............................................................................................................................................................................. 80
ANNEX I. FOCUS GROUP GUIDE FOR UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDERS (JUNE 2013)
........................................................................................................................................................................................ 88
ANNEX J. SEMI-STRUCTURED GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE FOR UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP
STAKEHOLDERS (JUNE 2013)................................................................................................................................ 90
ANNEX K. LIST OF REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................... 91
ANNEX L. CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENTS ...................................................................................... 99
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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

APS Annual Program Statement for USAID/Indonesia
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
BI Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture
BPOM Balai Pengawasan Obat dan Makanan (NA-DFC: National Agency for Food and Drug
Control)
DIKTI Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (Directorate General for Higher Education,
Ministry of Education and Culture)
ECFED Education Community Food Enterprise Development, USDA/FAS
EU European Union
F Female
FAS Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA
FK Fakultas Kedokteran (Faculty of Medicine)
FKM Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat (Faculty of Public Health)
FP Fakultas Pertanian (Faculty of Agriculture)
GAP Good Agricultural Practices
GoI Government of Indonesia
HE Higher Education
HENRI Higher Education Network Ring Initiative Partnership, USAID/Indonesia
HKI Helen Keller International
HSPH Harvard School of Public Health
HSS Harvard Summer Seminar
IDR Indonesia Rupiah (currency unit - IDR 1000 = ~ $0.1004) (as of July 10, 2013)
IPB Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agricultural University), Bogor
KEMENRISTEK Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi (Ministry of Research and Technology)
LIPI Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Science)
LP Lesson Plan
LPPM Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat (Board for Research and Community
Services)
M Male
MoA Ministry of Agriculture
MoEC Ministry of Education and Culture
MoH Ministry of Health
MoSA Ministry of Social Affairs
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
PED Project End Date
PEER Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research
PEMDA Pemerintah Daerah (Local Government)
PH Public Health
PI Principal Investigator
PIRT Pangan Industri Rumah Tangga (Home Industry Food) (District Health Agency)
SANREM Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Program
SEAFAST Center Southeast Asian Food and Agricultural Science and Technology Center
SEAMEO RECFON Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization - Regional Centre for Food and
Nutrition, Jakarta
SID SUMMIT Institute of Development, Mataram
SUMMIT Supplementation with Multiple Micronutrient Intervention Trial
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TAMU Texas A&M University

TAMUS Texas A&M University System
TOR Terms of Reference
ToT Training of Trainers
TPC Tropical Plant Curriculum Partnership, USAID/Indonesia
UI Universitas Indonesia (University of Indonesia), Jakarta
UNAND Universitas Andalas (Andalas University), Padang
UNRAM Universitas Mataram (Mataram University), Mataram
UNSRAT Universitas Sam Ratulangi (Sam Ratulangi University), Manado
UNUD Universitas Udayana (Udayana University), Denpasar
UP University Partnerships Program, USAID/Indonesia
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Partnership between the United States and Indonesia identifies the creation of
education partnerships as a top priority. In furtherance of this objective, USAID/Indonesia launched the
University Partnerships (UP) program in December 2009 to help improve the quality and relevance of
higher education in Indonesia. Establishing U.S.-Indonesia university partnerships leverages U.S.
universities’ expertise to strengthen the research and teaching capacity of Indonesian institutions. To
date, USAID has made awards to 16 U.S.-Indonesia university partnerships, with the U.S. university as
the awardee and one or more Indonesian partner organizations as sub-awardees. The range of awards is
from $600,000 to $1,000,000 in funding from USAID/Indonesia.
This evaluation of the third and fourth UP partnership awards, carried out in June 2013, is the second
evaluation of UP partnerships by International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), with
sub-contractor JBS International, Inc.’s Aguirre Division (JBS International), on behalf of USAID/
Indonesia under Task Order AID-497-TO-12-00004. The topics and university partners of the two
partnerships evaluated are:
1. Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC) to Help Sustain Resources and Develop Local
Markets:
 Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Southeast Asia Food and Agricultural Science and Technology
Center (SEAFAST Center) (Bogor)
 Universitas Udayana (UNUD) (Denpasar, Bali)
 Universitas Sam Ratulangi (UNSRAT) (Manado, North Sulawesi); and Texas A&M University
System (TAMUS) Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture (BI).
2. Developing, through the Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI), a Sustainable Public
Health Training Program Rooted in Active Use of Local Data, a Practice-Based Training
Curriculum, and University Faculty Development:
 Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Food and
Nutrition (SEAMEO RECFON) – Universitas Indonesia (UI) (Jakarta)
 Universitas Andalas (UNAND) (Padang, West Sumatra)
 Universitas Mataram (UNRAM) (Mataram, Lombok)
 SUMMIT Institute of Development (SID) (Mataram, Lombok)
 Helen Keller International/Indonesia (HKI) (Jakarta); and Harvard School of Public Health
(HSPH).
PURPOSES OF THE EVALUATION
The purposes of the evaluation were to: 1) assess the extent of the knowledge and skills transfer that
has occurred between the lead U.S. university and the Indonesian partners as sub-awardees; 2)
determine the extent or level of the capacity building that has taken place within the partnerships; 3)
assess the effectiveness of the project interventions between the partners to improve the teaching and
research services; 4) assess whether or not the projects are sustainable and have achieved the project
objectives; 5) obtain lessons learned from the existing partnerships that can be applied to the future
direction of the UP program; and 6) demonstrate how the institutions have achieved measurable
improvements in the quality and relevance of their teaching and research services.
Specifically, the evaluation was asked to address the following five questions:
1. What are the specific knowledge and skills and institutional capacity building that have occurred
as a result of the partnership between the U.S. university and the Indonesian partner(s)?
2. What were the project interventions that were effective between the participating universities
toward improving the quality of the research services, teaching, and curriculum development?
3. What unintended results or spillover have occurred toward achieving USAID’s Education
Strategy in IR 2.2 (Strengthened Management of Targeted Higher Education Institutions), and IR
2.3 (Improved Teaching, Research, and Service at Targeted University Departments) under the
partnership?
4. What are the lessons learned from the partnership that may be replicated in future programs
based on its sustainability in curriculum development, research services, publications,
public/private partnerships, and possibilities for engagement with other partners (government,
NGO, or private sector) at the end of the award?
5. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the partnership between the U.S. university and the
Indonesian partner(s)?
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS
The evaluation team examined a wide range of reports cited in the RFTOP or obtained from U.S and
Indonesian partner universities and other organizations. Especially relevant were its comprehensive
reviews of all documents available pertaining to the TPC and HENRI partnerships. The team also
conducted more than 40 individual semi-structured interviews with relevant partnership participants, as
well as several informal focus groups and small group discussions. The evaluation drew on the analytical
framework established and used in the 2011 USAID report Best Practices for USAID International
Higher Education Institutional Partnerships: Asia and Middle East Regions in developing its research
instruments.
The short time duration of the evaluation process, which required extensive travel and interviews
organized around a national holiday, was a limiting factor. More time to visit the Indonesian partner
universities and their external stakeholders, as well as to visit the U.S. partner universities, would have
been helpful. Given the university and national sensitivities that may be implicit in the implementation of
ambitious multi-institutional partnership programs, the team was cognizant of the cultural and
geographical differences among Indonesian sites visited and employed appropriate diplomacy in the
design and implementation of institutional visits, interviews, and other meetings.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The report’s 14 recommendations are of three types: general recommendations, TPC partnership
recommendations, and HENRI partnership recommendations. All recommendations are informed by the
report’s 81 findings relative to the five evaluation questions. While the general recommendations apply,
in varying degrees, to both partnerships and reflect the collective findings, the TPC and HENRI
partnership recommendations are each based on the team’s findings for that partnership relative to the
evaluation questions. Given the large number and overlapping nature of these findings, the partnership-
specific recommendations are presented below without reference to specific findings.
For both TPC and HENRI, it is important to distinguish between partnership sustainability and program
sustainability. It may be less important that the same partners continue their collaboration on the same
objectives and programs than that the Indonesian partners build on their experiences and achievements
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through TPC and HENRI and explore other forms of collaboration to strengthen their respective
institutional capacities in ways that address Indonesian local, regional, and national priorities.
General Recommendations
1. From the start of a US-Indonesia partnership, Indonesian partners should adopt a more inclusive
approach to partnership building and program sustainability. As appropriate, they should explore
and create new or modified collaborations that link partners’ teaching, research, and outreach
programs with the needs and interests of other universities, firms, NGOs, and public agencies.
This requires that each partnership emphasize the expansion and enhancement of its external
collaboration networks (e.g., with GoI ministries, local government offices, international NGO
policy makers, private firms) to build partner capacities in areas central for the development of
national evidence-based public sector policies and private sector enterprises. Such collaboration
networks also can provide the stimulus for changes in national government policies,
improvements in district government service delivery, improved private firm production
decisions, and closer links between university research and local and national development.
2. US-Indonesia university partnership subcontracts among partners should reflect partnership
objectives, partner institutional capacities and partnership roles, prior Indonesian partner
relationships (and perceptions thereof), and other factors likely to influence the sustainability of
partnership programs and contribute to longer term partner institutional capacity development.
3. In multi-institution US-Indonesia university partnerships led by a US university, the US partner
should ensure that in-country, on-the-ground management responsibilities are carried out by an
experienced project manager associated with a strong partner institution and that both the
project manager and the lead Indonesian partner have the respect of other partners, the
authority within the partnership, and the human resources to provide unambiguous leadership.
Partners should provide such project managers with the clear guidance needed to deliver timely
technical assistance in training, research, outreach, and other capacity building areas. In this way,
partnership outcomes can be better sustained when the US-Indonesia partnership funding ends
and the lead US university is no longer involved. To further improve program sustainability and
institutional capacity, the partnership needs a project implementation plan that reflects the
capacity and commitment of each partner to implement programs in the partnership timeframe.
TPC Partnership Recommendations
1. In exploring future funding possibilities, the TPC partners, individually and collectively, should
focus more on program sustainability than on partnership sustainability. It also is important that
each partner think about program sustainability both in terms of the TPC partners as a group
and in terms of its own institution (perhaps in collaboration with different partners).
2. Future US-Indonesia university research partnerships should provide opportunities for
Indonesian partners, rather than their US partners, to lead partnerships and have unambiguous
leadership roles relative to those of US partners. Future partnerships also should provide each
Indonesian partner with meaningful opportunities to lead selected multi-partner activities,
including outreach to groups with interests in partnership outcomes and impacts and to non-
TPC universities that want to strengthen their underutilized plant instruction, research, and
outreach. Indonesian partner institutional capacity will not improve without such opportunities.
3. To help it achieve long-term TPC program sustainability and enhanced institutional capacity,
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a. each Indonesian TPC partner should encourage and support broader participation of its
lecturers, researchers, community trainers, and other partnership participants in the
partner’s curriculum enrichment, applied research, community outreach, and
commercialization activities focusing on local underutilized plants and plant products; and
b. all three Indonesian TPC partners should jointly encourage and support more frequent and
more effective multi-partner collaborations in curriculum enrichment, applied research,
community outreach, and commercialization activities focusing on such topics.
4. In the TPC third year and beyond, its partners should explore alternative approaches to sustain
TPC programs and outcomes; these approaches might include one or more of the following:
a. give highest priority to strengthening each Indonesian partner’s community education,
training, and outreach, which have received inadequate attention thus far but are the
foundation for successful and sustainable commercialization and entrepreneurship;
b. focus on the impacts of partner community education and commercialization, not simply on
participant, training, product, or other “counts”; and
c. focus on the dissemination of each partner’s TPC outcomes and impacts (e.g., research
results, teaching modules, GAPs, community training manuals, product certifications) within
the partner university and also with TPC and non-TPC universities, government offices,
business firms, and NGOs in Indonesia with interests in plant product benefits and uses.
5. The TPC Indonesian partners should continue to enhance collaboration with formal or informal
networks important to building underutilized plant research capacity in Indonesia, including:
a. Indonesian universities and institutes having the potential for designing, conducting, and
applying plant research consistent with international standards and methods;
b. Indonesian ministries and agencies whose responsibilities relate to the governmental
contexts within which university plant research is funded, conducted, and used; and
c. International plant researchers whose interests are similar to those of partner faculties and
who understand Indonesian university research contexts, cultures, and capacities.
HENRI Partnership Recommendations
These recommended HENRI partnership actions and adjustments assume that USAID/Indonesia will
approve the no-cost extension for the HENRI Cooperative Agreement requested by the HSPH:
1. Any funded extension of the HENRI Cooperative Agreement should be conditional upon the
project being able to achieve its objectives, especially project activities involving clearly
measurable deliverables like those in the training, lesson planning and publications components.
The no-cost extension requested by the HSPH and its HENRI partners would provide the time
needed to show that the current HENRI approach can actually achieve the implementation plan.
2. USAID/Indonesia should hold the HSPH more accountable for ensuring that all HENRI partners
comply with the Cooperative Agreement’s requirement that the HENRI project implementation
plan include well-designed monitoring and evaluation components, clearly defined program
management deliverables (e.g., annual and quarterly reports), and a record of all project
activities (e.g., workshops, seminars, and conferences involving beneficiaries). This may help
ensure that HENRI partners carry out their subcontract obligations with SEAMEO RECON-UI
or the HSPH in a timely manner to provide a clearer and more comprehensive record of each
partner institution’s achievements.
3. HENRI institutional partners should carry out a joint partnership review of progress made to
date to revise, if necessary, the ambitious results in HENRI’s implementation plan and to
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reallocate the remaining HENRI funding to achieve the revised results within the extended
award period. For example, a revised plan may need to reduce the number of publications to
reflect HENRI’s actual publications performance to date, since three years is not enough time to
achieve the writing and publications objectives cited in the initial HENRI work plan.
4. HENRI should give more attention to building the institutional and research capacities within
weaker partner institutions by setting aside some of the remaining HENRI funding to implement
a program for remedial training in English language and statistical skills. Such training may be
needed beyond the extended period of the HENRI Cooperative Agreement.
5. Harvard’s inability to place an in situ HENRI project field manager/coordinator in Indonesia may
have prevented the partnership from dealing with coordination and management problems. An
in situ Harvard presence might have lessened delays in HENRI’s ability to recognize and respond
to partner problems slowing down the achievement of results, for example. In the future, multi-
partner U.S.-Indonesia partnerships like HENRI should consider including the presence of a
long-term field manager/coordinator in their budgets. (The Columbia University-led University
Partnership (UP) establishing a Center for Child Protection at UI may be a model to follow.)
6. Successful elements of the HENRI partnership experience (e.g., the publications mentoring
process; the intra-faculty model for sharing data analyses and research; and the international
networking experience) should be more strongly emphasized during the final year of the HENRI
Cooperative Agreement. HENRI should identify and record its more notable successes and
share them with participants during strategically organized seminars and conferences involving
public health researchers from national and international public and private sectors.
A LOOK AHEAD
In this assignment, the team focused on the long- term objectives of institutional capacity building and
institutional research development. These objectives should not vary, although partnership institutions
may vary, just as partnerships may take different approaches to achieve these objectives. While UP
partnerships #1 and #2 each created a center through which to achieve these long-term objectives, the
TPC and HENRI partnerships each sought to build partner capacity through collaboration in curriculum
enrichment, research, and outreach. These programs, not centers, are the foundation for strengthened
institutional and research capacity in the TPC and HENRI partners.
Through the USAID/Indonesia UP program, the TPC and HENRI partnerships have taken steps toward
institutional capacity building and research development. While the TPC partnership followed a decade
of collaboration among its US and Indonesian partners and is achieving its many objectives and indicators
(albeit somewhat unevenly among partners), the HENRI partnership also is starting to build a much-
needed foundation for public health research, curriculum enrichment, and training of professionals.
Nevertheless, the team’s evaluation of the TPC and HENRI partnerships leads it to suggest a
complementary approach to US-Indonesia partnerships that could further help Indonesian universities
address long-term sustainable development priorities in Indonesia.
An important lesson learned by TPC and HENRI partners is that people are the key to program
sustainability; each partnership regretted that research-related reciprocal exchanges were not possible
due to funding limitations. At the same time, DIKTI directorates (e.g., Directorate for Research and
Community Service, Directorate for Human Resources Development) have substantial resources to
support short-term research and study abroad to strengthen curriculum enrichment, research, and
outreach on Indonesian development priorities (e.g., health, food security).
Thus, the team recommends that USAID/Indonesia explore ways to collaborate with MoEC/DIKTI
directorates in developing a new jointly funded and jointly administered program of US-Indonesia
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university research partnerships led by Indonesian universities and including significant support for
reciprocal research/lecturer exchanges between the Indonesian and US partners. The US Department of
Education’s international consortia partnership programs jointly funded by and administered with Brazil,
Canada and Mexico, and the European Union may offer useful examples of such a program.
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I. INTRODUCTION
PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Comprehensive Partnership between the United States and Indonesia identifies the creation of
education partnerships as a top priority. In furtherance of this objective, USAID/Indonesia launched the
University Partnerships (UP) program in December 2009 to help improve the quality and relevance of
higher education in Indonesia. Establishing U.S.-Indonesia university partnerships leverages U.S.
universities’ expertise to strengthen the research and teaching capacity of Indonesian institutions. To
date, USAID has made awards to 16 U.S.-Indonesia university partnerships, with the U.S. university as
the awardee and one or more Indonesian partner organizations as sub-awardees. The range of awards is
from $600,000 to $1,000,000 in funding from USAID/Indonesia.
This evaluation of the third and fourth UP partnership awards is the second of several evaluations of UP
partnerships and was carried out in June 2013 by International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc.
(IBTCI) and its subcontractor JBS International, Inc.’s Aguirre Division (JBS International) on behalf of
USAID/Indonesia under Task Order AID-497-TO-12-00004. The topics and university partners of the
two partnerships evaluated are:
1. Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC) to Help Sustain Resources and Develop Local
Markets:
 Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Southeast Asia Food and Agricultural Science and Technology
Center (SEAFAST Center) (Bogor)
 Universitas Udayana (UNUD) (Denpasar, Bali)
 Universitas Sam Ratulangi (UNSRAT) (Manado, North Sulawesi); and Texas A&M University
System (TAMUS) Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture (BI).
2. Developing, through the Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI), a Sustainable Public
Health Training Program Rooted in Active Use of Local Data, a Practice-Based Training
Curriculum, and University Faculty Development:
 Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Food and
Nutrition (SEAMEO RECFON) – Universitas Indonesia (UI) (Jakarta)
 Universitas Andalas (UNAND) (Padang, West Sumatra)
 Universitas Mataram (UNRAM) (Mataram, Lombok)
 SUMMIT Institute of Development (SID) (Mataram, Lombok)
 Helen Keller International/Indonesia (HKI) (Jakarta); and Harvard School of Public Health
(HSPH).
PURPOSES OF THE EVALUATION

The purposes of the evaluation were to: 1) assess the extent of the knowledge and skills transfer that
has occurred between the lead U.S. university and the Indonesian partners as sub-awardees; 2)
determine the extent or level of the capacity building that has taken place within the partnerships; 3)
assess the effectiveness of the project interventions between the partners to improve the teaching and
research services; 4) assess whether or not the projects are sustainable and have achieved the project
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objectives; 5) obtain lessons learned from the existing partnerships that can be applied to the future
direction of the UP program; and 6) demonstrate how the institutions have achieved measurable
improvements in the quality and relevance of their teaching and research services.
Specifically, the evaluation was asked to address the following five questions:
1. What are the specific knowledge and skills and the institutional capacity building that have
occurred as a result of the partnership between the U.S. university and the Indonesian
partner(s)?
2. What were the project interventions that were effective between the participating universities
toward improving the quality of the research services, teaching, and curriculum development?
Strategy in IR 2.2 (Strengthened Management of Targeted Higher Education Institutions), and IR
2.3 (Improved Teaching, Research, and Service at Targeted University Departments) under the
partnership?
4. What are the lessons learned from the partnership that may be replicated in future programs
based on its sustainability in curriculum development, research services, publications,
public/private partnerships, and possibilities for engagement with other partners (government,
NGO, or private sector) at the end of the award?
5. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the partnership between the U.S. university and the
Indonesian partner(s)?
EVALUATION METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS

The IBTCI/JBS International evaluation team was comprised of two American specialists, Dr. Ken Tolo
and Dr. Frank Dall, and one Indonesian specialist, Dr. Dwatmadji; Ms. Dian Rachmawati provided
logistical support. During its evaluation of the third and fourth UP partnerships, the team visited the
eight Indonesian partner organizations. Separate discussions were carried out with key informants at the
BI/TAMUS and the HSPH, the two U.S. partner universities, to verify and complement the data collected
during planned visits to and interviews with key respondents at the Indonesian partner institutions.
The evaluation team examined a wide range of reports cited in the RFTOP or obtained from U.S and
Indonesian partner universities and other organizations. Especially relevant were its comprehensive
reviews of all documents available pertaining to the TPC and HENRI partnerships. The team also
conducted more than 40 individual semi-structured interviews with relevant partnership participants, as
well as several informal focus groups and small group discussions. The evaluation drew on the analytical
framework established and used in the 2011 USAID report Best Practices for USAID International
Higher Education Institutional Partnerships: Asia and Middle East Regions in developing its research
instruments.
The short duration of the evaluation process, which required extensive travel and interviews organized
around a national holiday, was a limiting factor. More time to visit the Indonesian universities would have
been helpful. Given the university and national sensitivities which may be implicit in the implementation
of multi-institutional partnership programs, the team was cognizant of the cultural and geographical
differences among sites visited and considered these differences in project design and implementation.
ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT

The report contains: an introduction, sections for each of the TPC and HENRI partnerships, and
recommendations. Annexes include the scope of work (Annex A), work plan/calendar (Annex B),
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individuals interviewed (Annex C), TPC and HENRI supplemental information (Annexes D and E),
research instruments (Annexes F through J), and references (Annex K). Conflict of Interest Statements
form Annex L.
II. TROPICAL PLANT CURRICULUM (TPC) PARTNERSHIP

TPC PARTNERSHIP OVERVIEW
On November 4, 2010, USAID/Indonesia (USAID) made a three-year University Partnerships (UP)
cooperative agreement award totaling US$636,549 to the TAMUS1 Borlaug Institute (BI/TAMUS) to
provide support for the partnership entitled “Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC) to Help
Sustain Resources and Develop Local Markets.” Through this partnership, Dr. Tim Davis, TPC project
director (and BI/TAMUS Regional Director for Asia), and three Indonesian PIs proposed to “expand
existing, ongoing partnerships to promote education and research collaboration to conserve biodiversity
for increased market diversification and the creation of livelihoods in rural forest communities”:
 Prof. Dr. Purwiyatno Hariyadi, Institute Pertanian Bogor (IPB), Bogor
 Prof. Dr. Nyoman Semadi Antara, Universitas Udayana (UNUD), Denpasar
 Prof. Dr. Ir. Robert Molenaar, Universitas Sam Ratulangi (UNSRAT), Manado
The four TPC objectives, together with the planned activities to accomplish these objectives, are:
 Curriculum enrichment: To enrich students’ knowledge about the biodiversity and use of
underutilized tropical plant materials for food and health products, each Indonesian partner is
developing four course modules, primarily for undergraduates but potentially serving as the basis
for less advanced curricula for community education;
 Bioactives research and good agricultural practices (GAP) development: To provide a scientific
basis for purported human health-promoting properties of tropical plants, each Indonesian
partner is characterizing bioactive compounds2 and developing GAPs for three local plants for
which biochemical analysis is relatively easy and which offer the potential for commercialization;
 Community education: To provide community education related to tropical plant biodiversity,
conservation, and use, each Indonesian partner is offering training to community residents and
school students on such topics as biodiversity, GAPs, and licensing of products to enhance local
understanding of how tropical plant resources might foster economic development; and
 Tropical plant-based commercialization: To promote the commercialization of underutilized
plants and their products, each Indonesian partner is building on its education, research, and
community education activities by targeting home enterprises, potential entrepreneurs, or
farmers for training in product scale-up, packaging improvement, legal certification, marketing,
and other elements of successful small business development.
Partnership Development
BI/TAMUS has worked in Indonesia since the mid-1990s, receiving more than a dozen grants for
Indonesian projects, mainly from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), e.g., Education for
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The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) receives research awards to TAMUS institutions, including Texas
A&M University (TAMU), College Station, TX. This report uses TAMUS for both TAMU and TAMUS references.
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Bioactive compounds are chemical constituents of tropical plants that have biological activity in addition to their
nutritional activity in humans and/or animals, e.g., antioxidants in tea and fruit, lipids (fats) in nuts and seeds.
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Community Food Enterprise Development (ECFED) (2000-03) and the Indonesia Cold Chain Project
(2003-05). It has partnered most frequently with IPB, but also with UNUD and UNSRAT.
The USDA-funded SEAFAST Center Project (2005-09), designed and conducted jointly by TAMUS and
IPB to bring together academic, government, NGO, and business sectors to improve food science and
technology in Indonesia, led to the creation of the SEAFAST Center. This project, as well as 2008-09
Center research on the flavonoid content and antioxidant activity of Indonesian vegetables, led TAMUS
and IPB to make a commitment to preserving Indonesian biodiversity by identifying, analyzing, and
expanding local commercial opportunities for plant products having potential health or food benefits.
Strengthening the institutional commitment to decade-long project collaboration between TAMUS and
IPB have been institutional agreements of cooperation. In February 2012 a five-year memorandum of
understanding (MOU) extended the TAMUS-IPB collaboration framework begun a decade earlier.
Consistent with its practice of having institutional MOUs with Indonesian universities with which it has
project collaboration (e.g., TPC), IPB also has general rector-level MOUs with UNUD and UNSRAT.
In 2010, prior to USAID/Indonesia’s call for UP proposals, Davis made his first trip to Indonesia, visiting
IPB and UNUD. After TAMUS received the TPC award in fall 2010 and Davis was named TPC project
director, he sent a TAMUS team to Indonesia to begin to organize partner activities; one month later,
he visited all three Indonesian partners and worked with them to develop the initial TPC work plan.
Partnership Funding
The initial TPC work plan was not formally approved until May 11, 2011, more than six months after the
TPC award. Subcontracts between TAMUS and each of the three Indonesian partners were signed in
May 2011, with initial funding from TAMUS to the other partners in June 2011. The May 2011
subcontracts were for the first year of the TPC award (through November 3, 2011), with annual
extensions dependent upon partner performance and availability of funding; all subcontracts were later
extended in spring 2012 and spring 2013. Institutional MOUs between IPB and each of UNUD and
UNSRAT provide a framework for collaboration among the three TPC Indonesian partners.
Of the total three-year TPC funding (US$636,549), TAMUS retains US$333,174, while IPB receives
US$113,125 and each of UNUD and UNSRAT receives US$95,125 under their TAMUS subcontracts.
Cumulative expenditures through the end of the first quarter of calendar year 2013 total US$518,636.
With the exception that IPB receives an extra US$18,000 over three years (US$500/year for each of 12
SEAFAST Center TPC program directors), the partners receive the same funding for the same types of
expenditures. The largest three-year items in each subcontract are research (US$29,925), plant analysis
supplies (US$24,000), community training (US$15,000), and data collection (US$11,250). The Indonesian
partners receive no overhead; TAMUS receives US$93,323 over the three years of the award.
Partnership Participants
As director of the IPB SEAFAST Center since its joint creation by IPB and TAMUS, and as Head of the
IPB Department of Food Technology and Human Nutrition when the initial IPB-TAMUS MOU was
signed in 2003, Hariyadi is the de facto lead Indonesian co-principal investigator.
The IPB TPC core management team includes Hariyadi (male) and two senior SEAFAST Center staff:
Nuri Andarwulan (female), Executive Secretary of the SEAFAST Center, and Lilis Nuraida (female),
Program Manager for the SEAFAST Center. In UNUD, the TPC management team includes Antara
(male), Head of the Food Security Research Center, and Wayan Widya (male), Secretary of the Food
Security Research Center. UNSRAT has no TPC-related research center comparable to the SEAFAST
Center or the Food Security Research Center; Molenaar (male) guides TPC activities with the assistance
of project teams for curriculum enrichment, research, community training, and commercialization.
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Table 1 shows the gender of partner university faculty/staff, student, and community members listed in
the TPC Year 2 (2012) Annual Report, which also states that the percentage of female students in each
partner enrolled in courses enriched with biodiversity modules met or exceeded 40% (the target for the
end of Year 2). Table 2 summarizes IPB, UNUD, and UNSRAT interviewees by type and gender; see
Annex C for additional interviewee information.
TABLE 1.
TPC PARTICIPANTS BY INDONESIAN PARTNER UNIVERSITY: YEAR 2 (2012)
Table 1A. TPC Faculty/Staff Participants: 2012

Numbers Percentages
TPC Partner University
Total Female Male Female Male
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) 11 7 4 63.6% 36.4%
Udayana University (UNUD) 10 3 7 30.0% 70.0%
Sam Ratulangi University (UNSRAT) 9 2 7 22.2% 77.8%
TOTAL 30 12 18 40.0% 60.0%
Table 1B. TPC Community and Student Training Participants: 2012

Numbers Percentages
Total Female Male Female Male
IPB:
Community training participants 69 56 13 81.2% 18.8%
Instructors of community training courses 9 6 3 66.7% 33.3%
IPB Sub-total: 78 62 16 79.5% 20.5%
UNUD:
UNSRAT:
Processor training participants 22 9 13 40.9% 59.1%
Undergraduate student training participants 40 17 23 42.5% 57.5%
UNSRAT Sub-total: 288 89 199 30.9% 69.1%
TOTAL 469 185 284 39.4% 60.6%
Source: “Annual Report – Year 2 (January 2012-December 2012). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project”
(Draft). This publication was produced under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-
00003. May 2013
TABLE 2.
TPC INTERVIEWEES BY INDONESIAN PARTNER UNIVERSITY: JUNE 2013
Participant Type IPB2 UNUD3 UNSRAT4
#F #M #F #M #F #M
TPC Management 2 1 0 2 0 1
Lecturers/Researchers 3 1 4 3 5 5
Students 0 2 5 2 10 2
University Officials 0 2 0 2 0 0
Totals 5 6 9 9 15 8
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GRAND TOTAL 29 Females, 23 Males

Notes:
1. The team also observed 20 female participants in a community course and IPB student volunteers
working with 40 female/male elementary students, plus talked with 2 female entrepreneurs.
2. The team also conducted an informal UNUD focus group with 9 male bamboo farmers.
3. The team also visited an UNSRAT home industry and a sub-village to observe plant product
processing.
EVALUATION QUESTION #1. PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED
TPC Participants’ Skills and Knowledge
Through TPC, participants in IPB, UNUD, and UNSRAT are improving their understanding about how
to integrate their research and curriculum enrichment with community outreach through a focus on
underutilized plant conservation, use, and commercialization. At the same time, Indonesian partners’
communities (e.g., farmers, school children, home enterprises, potential entrepreneurs) are improving
their understanding of how university research and teaching help them learn more about plant
conservation, use, and commercialization through training on such topics as good agricultural practices
(GAPs), post-harvest production processes, and plant product quality and certification.
UNUD researchers, lecturers, and students are learning about potential uses of lemon grass and
bamboo shoots as well as bioactives research skills, then using this knowledge to better communicate
and apply their research to communities. Farmers and others are gaining new knowledge and skills to
process and market lemon grass and bamboo shoots products shown to be beneficial and healthful.
Through the IPB Nursery of Tropical Plants, a community plot that includes 180 of 287 medicinal plants
identified in the Bogor area, elementary students, villagers, and potential entrepreneurs and home
enterprises are gaining the skills to conserve, use, and commercialize under-utilized plants. IPB student
volunteers and community trainers are gaining outreach skills to develop training manuals and to teach
children and adults how to use GAPs to improve entrepreneurial and home industry production.
UNSRAT, meanwhile, has conducted several training sessions to improve the plant product processing
knowledge and skills of home enterprises. Owners of these micro-enterprises often start and expand
their operations without a processing plan or the training to process and package quality products.
TPC Institutional Capacity Building
In 2012, 30 IPB, UNUD, and UNSRAT faculty/staff (excluding TAMUS researchers) were actively
involved in TPC program activities (see Table 2A). These faculty/staff have strengthened their
universities’ institutional capacity by improving their own research, technical, and outreach skills and
helping their universities more effectively integrate community outreach, teaching, and research.
As of January 2013, the IPB SEAFAST Center had developed all four modules targeted for completion
under TPC; uploaded two modules to its website (in a distance education format that permits formal
course enrollment and credit); and enriched six courses enrolling more than 150 students (more than
50% female). UNUD had developed the four modules targeted for completion; uploaded two modules
to the Center website (though not in the distance education format); and enriched six courses enrolling
152 students (more than 40% female). UNSRAT had developed two modules of the four targeted for
completion; shared these two modules with UNUD and IPB but not yet uploaded them to the Center
website; and enriched two courses enrolling 56 students (40% female).
In research and GAP development, by January 2013 IPB had uploaded to its website several scientific
profiles and research road maps of underutilized plants having potential health benefits; conducted
biochemical analyses on waterleaf (ginseng leaf); developed a research database for turkey berry;
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presented two scholarly articles in national/international seminars; and completed (and uploaded) three
GAPs for use by local communities in plant cultivation (waterleaf, turkey berry and kenikir). UNUD had
completed and uploaded to the web three scientific profiles and research road maps (lemon grass,
bamboo shoots and periwinkle); conducted bioactives analyses and completed GAPs on these same
plants; and made three scholarly seminar presentations. UNSRAT had made progress in analyzing kenari
nut, goroho banana, aren tree (or areng palm), nutmeg, and karimenga bioactive compounds and used
these profiles in community training programs, although constraints have slowed completion of the
GAPs.
Community education and extension also is an important component of institutional capacity building.
IPB, which only began to appreciate the importance of community education to institutional capacity
building through its collaboration with TAMUS, has focused its outreach on Community Gunung Leutik.
This community includes a Tropical Plants Nursery, a site for community classes, and a plant
demonstration plot. As of January 2013, IPB had written and was using six modules/manuals for training
activities (e.g., Manual for Ginger Instant Drink Production), plus a plant recipe book and two
elementary school medicinal plant books; produced two modules for “junior master gardener” training
for 3rd-5th graders in two local schools; trained more than 60 community residents; and trained 18 IPB
students to work as community education volunteers with more than 200 elementary school students.
UNUD faculty/staff have been especially effective in working with more than 1,200 bamboo farmers
(many of them newly involved since the start of TPC) on bamboo shoots cultivation and their
importance in land conservation, medicinal and food benefits, and “agricultural tourism.” As of January
2013, UNUD had written and used five modules for community training; trained 198 community
members; involved 10 UNUD students in extension; and trained more than 100 students and 15
teachers in two vocational high schools. While there appears to have been less progress at UNSRAT, it
has completed five community training modules; trained 250 community members; engaged 10 UNSRAT
students in extension; and trained over 40 vocational school students in two local schools.
Commercialization of plants and plant products is ongoing. As of January 2013, IPB had developed five
modules (in conjunction with extension); trained five potential entrepreneurs and targeted three for
more training; improved five entrepreneurs’ products; and had four entrepreneurs’ products obtain legal
certification for marketing. Corresponding numbers for UNUD were seven modules developed; four
potential entrepreneurs trained, with three targeted for more training; three products improved; and
one product receiving legal certification for marketing, with another product’s legalization process
ongoing. UNSRAT had developed five modules; trained 17 potential entrepreneurs and targeted three
for more training; improved three products; and had two products obtain legal certification.
While all TPC program indicators have been achieved or are likely to be achieved by the end of the
USAID award period (according to partner estimates), it is more difficult to assess whether these
achievements will have longer-term impacts in the partner universities and their communities. While
some student interviewees reported gaining new knowledge and skills from the enrichment modules
added to courses they had taken, these gains could not be confirmed. Indeed, one partner’s students
who had completed courses in which enrichment modules had been added could not identify additional
insights or information they had gained from these “new” courses, especially since no field work or lab
techniques focused on this module material. As another example, the numbers of entrepreneurs trained
in community education may not be closely related to the number of new products produced,
marketed, or safety-certified.
Findings
TPC Participants’ Knowledge and Skills include:
1. All partners improved their knowledge about using community education and outreach to
strengthen research and course improvement, and vice versa.
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2. Researchers, students, and trainers gained skills for linking applied plant research and GAPs with
the needs of communities.
3. TPC increased partner knowledge and skills about plant conservation, use, and
commercialization, but more collaboration and knowledge sharing among partners is needed.
4. The improvement of students’ plant research and community outreach knowledge and skills
through course enrichment varied substantially among the university partners.
5. Partners enhanced plant compounds research and analytic skills important for international
collaboration (e.g., extraction methods, chromatography, use of large databases, research
teams), although not equally among partners.
6. Farmers, entrepreneurs, and home enterprises gained practical knowledge and skills to improve
sanitation practices, product safety and quality, and plant product processing, packaging, and
marketing, although community participant numbers remain small and training impacts unknown.
TPC Institutional Capacity Building includes:
1. All TPC partnership indicators should be achieved by the end of the USAID award period.
2. There is now greater attention by TPC partners to community needs when research is planned
and conducted, not just when it is completed.
3. Partners’ applied research and course enrichment is more relevant to partner communities
through the research focus on local underutilized plants.
4. The partners have improved their analytic skills to conduct research on bioactive compounds in
plants and plant products, thus enhancing their institutional capacity (although unevenly).
5. IPB SEAFAST Center researchers have received a number of DIKTI and IPB competitive
research awards related to their TPC research.
6. There is now greater inclusion of community dimensions in research at some Indonesian
partners, improving their capacity to conduct research on local and Indonesian priorities.
7. There is increased potential for expanded Indonesian and international networks for tropical
plant course enrichment, applied research, community outreach, and micro-enterprise
development, but this potential has not yet been fully realized by all partners.
EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES

Effective TAMUS Interventions
Providing a context for TPC partnership interventions by TAMUS is its decade-long collaboration with
each partner. This collaboration has been especially close with IPB, including the collaboration to create
the SEAFAST Center. Thus it is difficult to differentiate between “business as usual” between TAMUS
and its Indonesian partners and specific TAMUS interventions contributing to the success of TPC.
Nevertheless, TAMUS participation in TPC has helped its partners improve the quality of instruction
and materials by recommending ways to improve the curriculum enrichment and implementation
process; produce higher quality research that meets international standards; develop/implement more
effective research plans; and produce greater partner understanding of the importance of linking
community education with research and curriculum enrichment. For example, during the annual 2011
and 2012 TPC conferences, TAMUS experts organized focus groups to help Indonesian partner
researchers learn how to formulate data, state findings, find data correlations, create a single “story”
from masses of data, and ensure data are valid using appropriate statistical techniques.
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In community education, however, the partners learned new approaches from TAMUS for using
distance education effectively and using practical demonstrations and hands-on training methods.
Community training facilitators and trainers also learned from TAMUS the importance of community
work, and this may have been its most sustainable contribution.
In research, TAMUS provided each partner with information appropriate to its research priorities,
including its development of GAPs; often the partners were unaware of such information. For example,
UNUD received information from TAMUS about the world’s use of bamboo shoots. Also, even though
there was no TPC funding for workshops on writing research papers, a TAMUS professor in Indonesia
as a Fulbright lecturer conducted such workshops, which the Indonesian partners found invaluable.
TAMUS also provided useful information to all partners on developments regarding US community
education, training, outreach, and extension. This included the value that land-grant universities continue
to place on face-to-face community outreach in the field. TAMUS experts demonstrated this practice
when they visited Indonesian partners; this practice made a deep impression upon farmers and villagers,
especially when the TAMUS experts returned a second time to learn about community needs and plans.
On the other hand, additional TAMUS guidance, especially to UNSRAT, might have strengthened TPC
results. When UNSRAT sought TAMUS assistance in developing its curriculum enrichment modules,
TAMUS was encouraging but reportedly told UNSRAT it had “total liberty” to develop modules any
way it wished. Although IPB, UNUD, and UNSRAT TPC directors regularly communicated, UNSRAT
lecturers also reported their only SEAFAST Center communication during 2011 and 2012 regarding the
uploading of enrichment modules to the Center website was a response saying it was OK to do so.
Because of the long-term relationship between TAMUS and the SEAFAST Center, TAMUS viewed the
Center as the lead TPC partner, expecting the Center not only to serve as the intermediary between
TAMUS and the other Indonesian partners but also to provide these two partners with assistance as
needed. At the same time, TAMUS, not IPB, had separate subcontracts with each Indonesian partner,
and these subcontracts included equal funding except that IPB received an additional US$18,000 over
three years for annual US$500 stipends to 12 Center researchers. Thus, while the Center viewed itself
as fully qualified to be both the Indonesian lead and the overall TPC lead, it was reluctant to assume too
active a leadership role since UNUD and UNSRAT, just as IPB, had subcontracts with TAMUS. Thus, at
times it appears neither TAMUS nor IPB provided the necessary guidance to other Indonesian partners.
Effective Partnership Practices
Prior to the 2010 USAID call for UP proposals, the partners, especially TAMUS and IPB, had discussed
projects on underutilized plant research and related curriculum enrichment and community outreach.
After USAID made the TPC award to TAMUS, the Indonesian partners discussed partnership objectives
even before Davis joined them to develop the initial TPC work plan. All four partners participated in the
development and implementation of TPC work plans and performance management plans and have held
working meetings at annual TPC conferences to assess prior activities and plan future ones. The partner
coordinators also had a special meeting in early July 2013 in Yogyakarta to ensure all TPC objectives will
be achieved by the end of the award period. In short, TPC planning practices have been very effective.
In-person relationships among the partners’ co-principal investigators reflect their long collaborations
and friendships. Communications among the Indonesian partners is usually initiated by IPB, though;
TAMUS, in turn, generally communicates with all Indonesian partners through IPB. This reflects the high
regard TAMUS has for IPB and its leadership role in Indonesian higher education; for example, when a
major industry in Medan contacted Davis (TAMUS) about collaboration, he referred it to the Center.
TPC researchers at IPB and TAMUS routinely communicate directly with each other; however, it
appears that neither TAMUS nor SEAFAST Center researchers routinely communicate with UNUD or
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UNSRAT researchers. This may be the case because of the perceived TPC roles of IPB and TAMUS and
because each partner is working with local plants, communities, and commercialization strategies.
Partner monitoring of TPC activities is ongoing, but mostly consists of ensuring that TPC indicator
targets are being met. Also, some community education surveys are regularly administered; for example,
UNSRAT evaluates each community training with a questionnaire, then uses survey responses to
improve subsequent training activities. Overall, though, it appears that no in-depth formative evaluation
of the TPC partnership has been conducted.
Findings
Effective TAMUS Interventions:
1. During the past decade, TAMUS has frequently collaborated with each Indonesian partner,
especially IPB.
2. TAMUS has helped Indonesian researchers learn how to formulate data, find data correlations,
create “data stories,” and use statistical techniques to ensure data validity.
3. TAMUS has helped Indonesian researchers, lecturers, and community trainers understand the
importance of linking community education with research and course enrichment.
4. TAMUS has provided each partner with relevant international information relating to the
partner’s TPC programs and activities as well as to US community education developments.
5. TAMUS has demonstrated the importance of community outreach by regularly visiting partners
and their communities, farmers, entrepreneurs, and home industries.
Effective Partnership Practices:
1. Discussions among all partners, especially IPB and TAMUS, about research collaboration on
underutilized plants and their products occurred prior to the 2010 USAID call for UP proposals.
2. All four partners actively engaged in TPC planning and implementation, although ambiguity about
the TPC leadership role (TAMUS or IPB) has resulted in less communication and cooperation
among Indonesian partners in TPC program activities than expected or desired.
3. Community education is at the center of partnership planning, communication and coordination,
and implementation practices.
4. All partnership co-principal investigators hold annual meetings to assess prior activities and plan
future ones, plus in-person meetings as needed (July 2013) to ensure all objectives are achieved.
EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS

Unanticipated TAMUS Contributions
An important unexpected (i.e., unplanned), but positive, development during 2012 was the selection of a
TAMUS professor as a Fulbright Program lecturer at IPB. Though he was not associated with TPC, he
volunteered to assist it during his Indonesia stay by leading workshops at Indonesian partners on
publishing research papers in international journals and conducting a mid-project assessment of the TPC
objectives. Indonesian partner researchers reported that these workshops were very helpful.
Another positive, but unplanned, TPC IPB development was the use of advanced metabolomic3 research
approaches, which are able to analyze more data faster than traditional chromatography techniques, to
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Metabolomics is the study of metabolite profiles in biological samples, i.e., small, low-molecular weight
compounds such as lipids, sugars, and amino acids that give clues about a person’s health.
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carry out food chemical research on ultra-small plant molecules. These approaches, not used before in
Indonesia, were introduced by a researcher who had recently received a Ph.D. in the Netherlands.
While SEAFAST Center researchers could not anticipate that their TPC research would lead to
additional research project support, their hope for such funding has been realized. Recently, one
researcher received a two-year competitive DIKTI grant for applied research on waterleaf, while
another one received a competitive grant from the IPB Rector’s Office for research on the turkey berry
plant. More generally, most IPB Department of Food Science and Technology researcher proposals to
the Rector’s Office for research support have been funded, although not all relate to TPC objectives.
In Bali, UNUD researchers learned about many more uses of bamboo shoots than expected. They
learned that bamboo shoots can control the quality of sperm in mice, which suggests possible medicinal
benefits and the possibility of developing a hormone for humans. They also unexpectedly showed the
potential for using lemon grass oil for bug insecticides and for controlling the hairy caterpillar.
Moreover, the 1,200 bamboo farmers working with UNUD did not expect to learn there are so many
benefits and uses of bamboo shoots and leaves; as a result, they are no longer as likely to sell their land
for economic development but rather want to use it for growing bamboo and conserve it for
“agricultural tourism.”
While the partners expected their communities to use applied research findings, the universities did not
expect communities to help shape their TPC research priorities by alerting them to plants said to have
medicinal and other benefits – and that researchers would then confirm these benefits. For example, IPB
learned from local women that one plant researched by the Center for potential commercialization has
been used by lactating women to produce more breast milk, while UNUD was advised by farmers that
bamboo leaves lessen hypertension and should be researched for commercialization potential.
UNSRAT research and community outreach are focusing to a greater degree than planned on the
benefits and uses of the aren tree (or areng palm). Villages had abandoned its cultivation when they
moved to horticulture, but now they again are producing food and other products from the aren tree,
which also improves the soil. The team gained a first-hand appreciation of these uses through a visit to a
sub-village of 50 persons near Manado. In addition, UNSRAT Forestry lecturers, who led this partner’s
curriculum enrichment, had not expected to update the entire Forestry program when they began their
TPC work. As they developed course modules, though, they realized the program needed strengthening.
Related to the curriculum enrichment objective, the SEAFAST Center expected that, by January 2013 all
12 planned course enrichment modules would be uploaded to the Center website, including several in
distance education format. Although TPC partners are confident that all modules will be uploaded by
the project end date, UNSRAT has completed only two of four modules; these have been shared in
print form with UNSRAT students and lecturers, but neither has yet been uploaded to the Center
website.
A continuing lack of agreement among the partners as to what is expected of them has contributed to
this unplanned delay in uploading modules to the web. The TPC Work Plan for 2011-13 states that each
partner’s modules “will be delivered through Distance Education facilities available at [the] SEAFAST
Center. Therefore the following step will be development of course management and uploading modules
on the web.” This same language appears in all three TAMUS subcontracts with IPB, UNUD, and
UNSRAT. Yet neither UNUD nor UNSRAT has uploaded any modules in the distance education format.
Some UNSRAT lecturers indicated that the Center’s distance education format is being imposed upon
them and that partners can share these modules without uploading them in this format.
Although unplanned in advance, the TPC partnership with TAMUS is providing the SEAFAST Center an
opportunity to extend its outreach activities beyond community education. Although most Indonesian
industries do not view university applied research as important to their firms, TAMUS has helped the
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Center learn how the most successful US university research centers operate sustainably through the
engagement of industry advisory councils in identifying applied research priorities and in supporting
research financially. Thus, the Center invited 10 local industries to serve on a Center advisory board.
Although only one firm has accepted so far, the Center hopes to engage more firms in Center research.
With regard to TPC management, the SEAFAST Center reported having less of a TPC leadership role
than expected. When TPC was being planned, the Center envisioned being the primary TAMUS TPC
partner, with UNUD and UNSRAT being “equal” partners with IPB but communicating with TAMUS
through IPB, as in earlier international partnerships involving these universities. The existence of similar
TAMUS TPC subcontracts with each of the three Indonesian partners, however, appears to have led the
Center to have a less active TPC leadership role. These developments may have contributed to the
perception among UNSRAT researchers and lecturers that they had less communication and
coordination than expected with IPB and TAMUS, in spite of UNSRAT’s “equal” partner status.
Findings
Unanticipated TPC Partnership Results include:
1. For the first time in any Indonesian university, an IPB researcher used metabolomic techniques
instead of chromatography for advanced food chemical research.
2. UNUD researchers learned that bamboo shoots contain testosterone and can control sperm
quality in mice, that lemon grass is effective as a bug insecticide and for controlling the hairy
caterpillar, and that farmers believe bamboo leaves lessen hypertension; lactating women in the
IPB local community informed IPB researchers that a potentially commercializable plant
(Sauropus androgynus) produces more breast milk.
3. A non-TPC TAMU professor who was a Fulbright lecturer at IPB led Indonesian workshops on
publishing research in international journals and conducted an independent project assessment.
4. The development of UNSRAT curriculum enrichment modules led to an update of all UNSRAT
Faculty of Agriculture study programs.
5. The IPB SEAFAST Center expected that all partner curriculum enrichment modules would be
uploaded to the Center’s website in the distance education format by the end of the award
period, but this will not occur due to Indonesian partners’ lack of agreement about this format.
6. IPB expected a greater leadership role in TPC than it had, while UNSRAT expected greater
communications with and guidance from IPB and TAMU.
EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY

The most significant and overarching TPC lesson learned by all three Indonesian partners has been the
critical importance of integrating and linking community education, extension, and empowerment with
applied research and course/training modules that address community needs. This integration is
especially important when universities seek to work with communities to create and enhance
entrepreneurship and commercialization opportunities that increase jobs, income, productivity, and
product quality. TPC seeks to achieve this by focusing curriculum enrichment, applied research, and
community education on underutilized local tropical plants and their products.
Through their TPC partnership with TAMUS, the Indonesian universities also have learned that this
integration of university research and teaching/learning with community outreach must be a central
focus of any university initiatives to enhance community economic opportunities. Outreach to villages,
farmers, and other community members cannot be added after the supporting research and curriculum
enrichment are complete. The TAMUS integration of instructional, research, and outreach missions and
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programs provides a lesson for Indonesia about the value of creating a few such universities in Indonesia
to lead rural economic development, as does the USDA practice of basing government research centers
at land-grant universities to take advantage of their integrated approach to agricultural development.
Programmatically, people and their relationships are critical for partnership sustainability. Although the
partners had collaborated over a decade and explored building on these relationships with exchanges in
the TPC partnership, several factors – including limited funding, three Indonesian partners, and four TPC
objectives – combined to eliminate any TPC reciprocal exchanges between TAMUS and Indonesian
partner researchers, lecturers, and students. As a result, Indonesian participants were unable to observe
firsthand the US land-grant university integration of community outreach with teaching and research.
Moreover, joint curriculum enrichment, applied research, publications, and outreach between TAMUS
and Indonesian researchers was virtually non-existent (except for selected TAMUS-IPB collaborations).
Each TPC Indonesian partner essentially worked alone on the plants and plants products particular to its
locality; there was little partner collaboration, communication, and sharing of partnership achievements
and challenges. Partners are located in very different regions, with different plants and different plant
products, factors which create major challenges for collaborative community education,
commercialization, and curriculum enrichment even if there had been substantially more funding
available. The annual TPC partner meetings have brought together selected lecturers and researchers
from each Indonesian partner, but these meetings often involved different participants each year, with
little continuing communication among them.
With regard to curriculum enrichment, the SEAFAST Center learned several important lessons from
TAMUS. These included the importance of using distance education to harmonize teaching and learning
standards, transfer information and learning to new audiences, and coordinate instruction across time
zones; it also learned to enrich and design courses to bring IPB closer to local communities so
researchers, students, and lecturers can learn from practice as well as theory. The Center and the IPB
Department of Food Science and Technology, in which many Center researchers have appointments,
also learned that effective TAMUS-IPB collaboration is more likely to be sustainable when this IPB
department offers a study program with all courses taught in both English and Bahasa Indonesia, as it
plans to do. [Currently, 5 of the program’s 28 courses are taught in both languages.]
The partners also learned that it is hard to implement an effective joint distance education program
based on curriculum enrichment modules prepared in a partnership such as TPC. There is a difference
between simply uploading modules to the web (i.e., making them available, with no registration required
and no ability to identify users to better serve them) and uploading them in distance education format
(i.e., enabling partners to register users, learn which modules are used most often and by whom, etc.).
At the start of TPC, the partners discussed which module uploading they would carry out; they reached
no clear understanding, however, even though IPB agreed to provide staff to help upload the modules.
This lack of agreement in 2011 on the process for uploading modules continues to be discussed among
the Indonesian partners; indeed, it was to be discussed at the partner coordinators’ meeting in
Yogyakarta in early July 2013. While the TAMUS subcontracts and the initial TPC work plan seem to
indicate all partners should upload their curriculum enrichment modules to the Center website in the
distance education format, the language in these documents is imprecise, leaving room for
interpretation. TPC indicators are not explicit, either. For example, UNSRAT lecturers developing
curriculum enrichment modules believe the distance education format has been “forced” upon them.
Since the shared use of each partner’s enrichment modules by all partner universities has been
envisioned from the start of TPC, this website uploading issue offers an important lesson for achieving
partnership sustainability.
UNSRAT lecturers have learned another curriculum enrichment lesson, namely, that it is hard to create
course enrichment modules. UNSRAT thought such modules would be easy to create, so it sought no
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further guidance when TAMUS suggested it had “total liberty” to create any kind of module. It now
realizes it should have sought further guidance from TAMUS or IPB, but it also wishes TAMUS or IPB
had shown interest in helping UNSRAT develop, package, and incorporate learning modules into
courses.
With regard to research and publications, the Indonesian partners now realize more fully than before
their involvement in the TPC partnership that publication in international applied research journals is
frequently harder to achieve than publication in international basic research journals. Greater numbers
of international journals focus on basic research because the relevance of applied research is often
limited to particular geographic regions or populations. However, DIKTI and university rector offices,
major sources of Indonesian university research awards, primarily fund applied research.
Although not surprising, another TPC partnership lesson learned is that research at different Indonesian
universities varies in quality. For example, the TPC Indonesian partners vary in their institutional
research capacity, given their mission, history, location, and other factors. Through module and GAP
development, community outreach, and research, TPC seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity of
each Indonesian partner, regardless of its current capacity, by focusing on each partner’s local plants,
communities, teaching and research priorities, and commercialization opportunities. But TPC indicators
include sharing, on the Center website, each partner’s course enrichment modules; this may lead to
quality comparisons among modules, discouraging partners whose modules might be of lesser quality
from sharing their modules. Moreover, this problem is more likely to occur when “weaker” partners
have few opportunities to collaborate with “stronger” partners in improving all partners’ modules.
The TPC partners have learned community education lessons, also. These include the importance of:
 providing students with research involvement prior to training them as community volunteers;
 involving lecturers to a greater degree in integrating research into community training;
 establishing a Community Training Advisory Board to engage a partner’s community residents;
 recognizing that a university needs to serve as a bridge between its applied research results and
the practices of any community group (e.g., entrepreneurs, home enterprises, farmers), as well
as provide leadership, cheerleaders, and training for such community groups; and
 making community outreach an important element of the technology transfer process in plant
production.
Findings
1. Integrating and linking community education with applied research and course/training
enrichment is essential, especially when universities work with communities to enhance
commercialization and entrepreneurship opportunities.
2. Specifying a lead Indonesian partner (i.e., IPB) to coordinate Indonesian activities when each
Indonesian partner has a direct subcontract with the US university partner (i.e., TAMUS) raises
uncertainty about partner roles and lessens partner communication and cooperation.
3. When each Indonesian partner works alone on the plants and plants products particular to its
locality, then collaboration, communication, and sharing of achievements and challenges between
Indonesian partners is limited.
4. There are fewer applied research journals than basic research journals internationally, so it is
harder to publish scholarly articles in applied research journals than in basic research journals.
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5. The comprehensive, integrated missions and programs of US land-grant universities could serve
as a model for a few such Indonesian universities.
6. Building institutional capacity of partners of diverse quality through curriculum enrichment and
applied research modules may be incompatible with partnership activities that implicitly compare
the quality of partner efforts (e.g., uploading course modules to common website).
7. Lack of agreement at start of partnership on an activity more important to one partner than to
others (e.g., web uploads of modules vs. web uploads of modules to distance education format)
is likely to continue to be a partnership issue.
EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Strengths
Through TPC, the partners have begun to understand for the first time the importance of integrating
university community outreach and training with curriculum enrichment, training materials, and research
that addresses local needs. The partners increasingly realize their contributions to local and national
development are greater when they link what occurs in their classrooms and labs with community
interests and also help communities learn about research applications of relevance to community needs.
Prior to initial TPC planning, Indonesian partners had been unaware of all the beneficial plants in their
localities. The SEAFAST Center, for example, has identified 287 medicinal plants growing in its vicinity,
of which 180 have been planted in the Center’s Nursery of Tropical Plants, where they are used as a
“teaching lab” for school children and community residents. This focus on underutilized/unutilized plants
is important for diverse regions in Indonesia as well as for the partner universities themselves.
With its four objectives, the TPC seeks to improve the education and training of IPB, UNUD, and
UNSRAT graduates. TPC also is helping community trainers/training facilitators to:
 Learn new skills and knowledge about effective community outreach
 Learn new and valuable information about medicinal plant uses and benefits
 Learn new training, teaching, and mentoring methods
 Expand their Indonesian training networks

The TPC also fosters multi-disciplinarity in plant-related teaching, research, and outreach (e.g., four
UNUD faculties and all five UNSRAT Faculty of Agriculture departments are engaged in TPC programs);
improving student understanding of food production, processing, packaging, and marketing; and training
farmers to know the uses and conservation benefits of products (e.g., bamboo shoots).
In addition, TPC has produced such diverse positive results as the following:
 Fostered community development as farmers see products moving into the marketplace
 Enabled partners to gain new knowledge and skills in food testing and food chemistry
 Improved the ability of undergraduates to carry out research for their final theses
 Improved research “models” for looking at the chemical composition of organic matter
 Raised awareness of the importance of protecting food using bio-pesticides, not chemicals
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 Emphasized, in entrepreneur training, not only the government’s PIRT-related product safety
standards but also the importance of constant, uniform quality for successful marketing
Weaknesses
Although initial TPC planning was excellent, it was very difficult to implement the time line in the initial
three-year TPC work plan, especially since there was a six-month delay between the announcement of
the TPC award in November 2010 and the signing of the USAID agreement in May 2011. Moreover,
although the inclusion of all four TPC objectives made sense from the perspective of fostering
integration among teaching, research, outreach, and commercialization, some partners now express the
view that perhaps the partnership included too many objectives or too many Indonesian partners, given
the three-year time period, the limited funding for each partner, and USAID administrative burdens.
It appears that greater communication and coordination among and within TPC partners in developing
instructional, research, and training modules might have produced modules that more effectively
complemented each other and enabled each partner to gain more benefits from modules produced by
other partners. One UNSRAT interviewee commented that coordination among the Indonesian
partners especially needed to be improved in curriculum enrichment, while another noted the
continuing lack of partner agreement about the format for uploading modules to the web. An IPB
interviewee stated that his department already had material in its courses on antioxidants from
vegetables and other topics that were addressed in the IPB curriculum enrichment modules.
The UNSRAT curriculum enrichment module development process has faced several challenges. The
link between curriculum enrichment and the plants selected for modules, classroom and lab instruction,
practical activities in the community, research, and GAP development is unclear. The lack of knowledge
shown by interviewed UNSRAT students about TPC course enrichment materials embedded in their
courses also suggests TPC implementation was more problematic in UNSRAT than in other partners.
As noted earlier, when UNSRAT module developers sought TAMUS assistance in module development,
they received encouragement but no guidance; and the only communication these developers reported
having with IPB during this process was being told when it was OK to upload modules to the Center
website. To address these communication challenges, UNSRAT researchers reported they had hoped to
help create a “TPC teaching and research community” among the partners; however, this did not occur.
The TPC partners recognize that plant-based entrepreneurship and commercialization continues to
need attention. This objective is planned to be a primary focus in Year 3 of the TPC award period;
however, the late start of award activity and the longer-than-anticipated time to complete other TPC
program activities means that final results relating to this objective will not be available until later.
Moreover, thus far the number of home enterprises and potential entrepreneurs participating in TPC
training is limited, as is the number of products moving toward commercialization or legal certification.
Findings
Strengths:
1. TPC Indonesian partners are starting to understand the importance of integrating community
outreach with curriculum enrichment/training modules and research that address local needs.
2. The TPC focus on underutilized tropical plants is important locally and nationally.
3. Many TPC partner lecturers/researchers are linked with communities through outreach and
training that help farmers/villagers learn the relevance of research to community needs.
4. Each TPC partner has enhanced the knowledge and skills of its lecturers/researchers in plant
testing, food chemistry, working in teams, and community outreach and training.
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5. Multiple academic programs are actively involved in TPC, especially at UNUD and UNSRAT.
Weaknesses:
1. Although TPC is achieving its objectives and indicators, the number of Indonesian partners (3)
combined with the number of partnership objectives (4), a short award period (3 years), and
limited USAID funding means that there were few resources for each objective and partner. For
example, community education is underfunded, and this is the foundation for commercialization.
2. Greater communication and coordination among Indonesian partners would have produced
complementary TPC curriculum enhancement modules, GAPs, research, and training materials.
3. TPC curriculum enrichment, student engagement, research, community education, and
commercialization of plant products is uneven among the Indonesian partners, reflecting unequal
institutional capacity at the start of TPC and some ambiguity in TPC partnership leadership.
4. Given the TPC scope and funding constraints, community education and commercialization
achievements are thus far limited and reflect activity participant counts more than impacts.
CONCLUSIONS
The following conclusions are drawn from report findings and related project documentation:
1. Despite several weaknesses, the TPC partnership has achieved significant successes and has the
potential to serve as a foundation for further collaboration among the partners.
2. Decade-long research collaborations between TAMUS and IPB, including joint establishment of
the IPB SEAFAST Center under a USDA-funded project to improve food science and technology
in Indonesia, as well as less-regular collaboration among TAMUS, IPB, UNUD, and UNSRAT,
resulted in TPC partnership planning being effective, collaborative, and based on mutual trust.
3. The SEAFAST Center’s successful Indonesian and international partnership experience (including
relationships with TAMUS, UNUD, and UNSRAT) position it to lead future US-Indonesia
university research partnerships (and would have enabled it to serve as the lead TPC university).
4. Through TPC and the institutional mentoring of TAMUS, Indonesian partners are improving
their knowledge about integrating teaching/learning and research with community outreach, as
well as the skills to do so, although the level and effectiveness of integration varies by partner.
5. Indonesian partners’ achievement of TPC curriculum enrichment and research indicators has
strengthened their capacity to educate students and communities and to conduct food chemical
research; however, little information about activity impacts is known (e.g., counting students in
module-enriched courses does not indicate improved courses or greater student learning).
6. Indonesian partners’ achievement of TPC community outreach and commercialization indicators
have strengthened their capacity to engage communities in applying research; however,
outcomes thus far largely involve TPC participant counts rather than participant impacts, and
strengthening community education is a prerequisite to achieving greater commercialization.
7. The female-male balance among TPC university and community participants is commendable and
generally positive, although low 2011 and 2012 UNSRAT female percentages for faculty/staff and
community training participants drop overall TPC female percentages below 50%.
8. Although TAMUS regards IPB as the lead Indonesian partner, IPB views its leadership role more
ambiguously given the TAMUS subcontracts directly with each Indonesian partner. This may
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have led IPB to take a less active leadership role than it had expected to take and to provide less
TPC communications and guidance than UNUD and, especially, UNSRAT expected.
9. Requiring both international scholarly publications and a focus on community-based applied
research in a short-term university partnership may not be compatible. Indeed, the only
universities that may be able to sustain such dual-purpose partnerships are those with active and
successful basic research foundations on which to carry out applied research activities.
10. Given the absence of TPC reciprocal exchanges between TAMUS and Indonesian partner
researchers, lecturers, and students, Indonesian participants were unable to observe firsthand
the US land-grant university integration of community outreach with teaching and research.
11. The TPC partnership is less sustainable than it would have been had it included curriculum
enrichment, applied research, publications, and outreach involving multiple partner universities.
12. Institutional partnerships involving multiple Indonesian universities of diverse quality might find it
incompatible to emphasize both building institutional (applied) research capacity in each partner
and comparing/sharing partners’ curriculum enrichment, research, community outreach, or
commercialization achievements and successes (e.g., through a common website).

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III. THE HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK RING INITIATIVE

(HENRI) PARTNERSHIP
The USAID-financed Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI) is aimed at training a cadre of
Indonesian scientists and public health professionals in the analysis and use of country-level data for
decision-making. While this was intended to focus on broad issues of health and development, the initial
entry point was on issues of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition. To carry this out, HENRI,
led by the Harvard School of Public Health, brought together recognized national and international
universities and public health scientists to improve training in data utilization and policy-making.
The HENRI Indonesian institutions include top schools of public health, epidemiology, and nutrition,
which incorporate much of Indonesia’s demographic diversity. These institutions include the Southeast
Asian Ministers of Education Organizations – Regional Center for Food and Nutrition [SEAMEO
RECFON] at the University of Indonesia [UI] (Jakarta, West Java); the University of Mataram [UNRAM]
and the SUMMIT Institute of Development [SID] (Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara); Andalas University
[UNAND] (Padang, West Sumatra); and Helen Keller International Indonesia [HKI]. These institutions
are collaborating with the lead US partner, the Harvard School of Public Health [HSPH] (Boston, USA).
THE HENRI PARTNERS AND FINANCIAL REPORT

The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is the awardee of the USAID University Partnerships (UP)
Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-0002 for the Higher Education Network Ring Initiative
(HENRI): Enhancing Training in Public Health and Applied Research in Indonesia. The HSPH received
$649,254 to provide technical support for HENRI. The award period is November 4, 2010 until
November 3, 2013. The agreement specifies Dr. Anuraj Shankar of the HSPH as Principal Investigator
(P.I.). Named partners to this agreement are: Dr. Endang Achadi, SEAMEO RECFON-UI; Dr. Husni
Mu’adz, University of Mataram; Dr. Masrul Djala, University of Andalas; Ms. Susi Sebayang, SID; and Mr.
John Deidrick, Helen Keller International.
The HENRI contact at the Harvard School of Public Health is:
Dr. Anuraj Shankar, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist and HENRI P.I.,
[email protected]
SEAMEO RECFON-UI, Jakarta, is the lead Indonesian HENRI partner and has an HSPH subcontract for
$136,005 through the duration of the USAID award. One of 19 SEAMEO Centers and one of six
SEAMEO Centers in Indonesia, it was the SEAMEO Tropical Medicine and Public Health Regional
Center in Community Nutrition (SEAMEO TROPMED RCCN). Rapid development of nutrition science,
including the need for comprehensive, multidisciplinary approaches to current nutrition problems, was a
main rationale for transforming SEAMEO TROPMED RCCN into SEAMEO RECFON in early 2011. The
Center is under the Indonesian Ministry of National Education and Culture and is hosted by UI.
From 2011 to 2015, SEAMEO RECFON focused its research and development activities on Maternal
and Child Nutrition. This focus is in line with its expertise in conducting training, research, and
consultancy work in the area, focused on a national priority to provide nutrition to children during the
first 1,000 days of life (Scaling Up Nutrition, SUN). SEAMEO RECFON’s main strategic themes focus on
food safety, nutrigenomics, clinical nutrition, community nutrition, and public health nutrition.
The HENRI contacts at SEAMEO RECFON are:
Dr. Drupradi H.S. Dillon, MD, Ph.D., SEAMEO RECFON Director, HENRI Co-P.I.,
[email protected]
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Dr. Ir. Umi Fahmida, MSc., SEAMEO RECFON Deputy Director for Programs,
[email protected],[email protected]
Dr. Helda Khusun, Ph.D., SEAMEO RECFON Head of Degree Unit Training Division,
[email protected]
Helen Keller International Indonesia (HKI)
According to HKI informants and the HSPH HENRI P.I., the HENRI idea came from John Palmer, former
HKI Country Director, and Dr. Shankar. Prior to the USAID UP solicitation in 2010, Palmer/HKI
submitted an unsolicited proposal totaling $3 million to USAID; USAID, in turn, recommended that HKI
partner with a US university and apply for a UP award. The HSPH became the HENRI lead, partly
because Dr. Shankar, who had worked at HKI in Jakarta for several years before going to the World
Health Organization (WHO), received his doctoral degree from Harvard and is at the HSPH. In
response to the USAID RFP, he coordinated the writing of a proposal with ex-colleagues and
professional contacts in Indonesian institutions (e.g., HKI and SID).
HKI has a HENRI subcontract with the HSPH totaling $204,870 which was signed in August 2011. All
HKI HENRI funds except for about $26,000 have been earmarked for HENRI scholarships; this, in
essence, makes HKI the ATM for HENRI scholarships, neither selecting the recipients nor monitoring
scholar writing and publishing performance. HKI has covered small percentages of its staff salaries
through its HENRI funds and cost sharing. Frequent staff changes in HKI’s Jakarta office have lessened
HKI’s ability to contribute technically to HENRI beyond its initial contribution of the Nutritional
Surveillance System (NSS) data set toward the creation of a HENRI integrated database.
The HENRI contacts at HKI (pending the appointment of a new HKI Country Director) are:
Ms. Lily Natalia, Deputy Director of Finances and Human Resources, [email protected]
Mr. Prateek Gupta, MSc., Monitoring and Evaluation Manger, [email protected]
Universitas Andalas (UNAND)
UNAND, a university in West Sumatra, has linkages to Dr. Shankar through his pre-HENRI research
activities. The oldest university in Indonesia outside Java, it has 11 faculties on the main campus 12
kilometers outside Padang. The Faculties of Medicine and Public Health are located in Padang near the
Central General Hospital. UNAND signed a subcontract with SEAMEO RECFON in 2011 totaling
$55,966 through the duration of HENRI. As a result of successful collaboration with three local district
governments, UNAND signed an agreement with the Provincial Health Office, witnessed by USAID’s
Deputy Mission Director, in March 2103. The agreement allows UNAND to cooperate with these
health offices in the collection and management of provincial and district level health data.
The HENRI contacts at UNAND are:
Prof. Nur Indrawaty Liputo. M.Sc., Ph.D., Dean of Public Health, HENRI Co-P.I.,
[email protected]
Dr. dr. Masul. MSc., SpGk., Dean of Medicine, [email protected]
Universitas Mataram and SUMMIT Institute of Development (UNRAM-SID)
The University of Mataram (UNRAM), established in 1962, is a state university with 10 faculties; it offers
8 master degree programs in management, law, resources management, science, accounting, economics
and education. The HENRI program initially proposed partnering with the Medical Faculty. Because it
was still being established, however, the Dean declined the invitation; many Faculty members were
abroad upgrading their experience and qualifications, so they were unable to provide necessary support.
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After some delay and also encouragement from SID, the Faculty of Agriculture agreed to participate in
HENRI. This innovative partnership linking agricultural food production with public health research may
prove to be one of the lasting and most important HENRI contributions toward the food and nutrition
research discourse in Indonesia. The Faculty of Agriculture has 4 departments: agriculture technology,
soil science, agronomy, and social economics; HENRI’s principal connections are with the food
technology section of the agriculture technology department and with the department of social
economics. UNRAM so far only has an MOU with SID agreeing to participate in HENRI activities; it
does not yet have a HENRI budget because of the dean’s desire to avoid the UNRAM bureaucracy.
Close collaboration with Agriculture has opened the door to HENRI access to primary data through
local district agricultural offices. This is proving to be an unexpected bonus and attractant for graduate
and bachelor degree students doing their theses using primary data from local sources.
The HENRI contacts at UNRAM are:
Dr. M. Husni Mu’adz, Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, HENRI Co-P.I., [email protected]
Liana Saryamingsih, Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, HENRI Coordinator,
[email protected]
Prof. Ir. H. M. Sarjan, MAgr., Ph.D., Dean of Agriculture, [email protected]
The SUMMIT Institute for Development (SID) was established in 2009 and now has an established
training and research facility in Mataram. SID management has a close relationship with UNRAM through
ties maintained by SID staff who are UNRAM alumni with prior working relations with Dr. Shankar.
SID’s research and development reputation is centered on its prior work in the health and human
development fields in Indonesia, and it is a leading national NGO working on national surveys with large
public maternal health and nutrition data sets. It prides itself on doing evidence-based social research in
a community-supportive participatory way. SID is collaborating with the HSPH and other HENRI
partners to help UNRAM establish an active HENRI data base and access portal, develop and train
UNRAM staff to improve their lesson plans (LPs) in line with the quantitative data management and
analytical teaching objectives set by HENRI, and help faculty and staff and the UNRAM Faculty of
Agriculture improve their teaching, research and publication skills in line with the maternal health and
nutrition elements being promoted by HENRI. SID’s subcontract with SEAMEO RECFON-UI was signed
in January 2011 and is funded up to $142,212 through the end of the HENRI award period.
The HENRI contact at SID is:
Ms. Mandri Apriatni, MSc., CEO SID, HENRI Co-P.I., [email protected]
HENRI Financial Report
The HENRI financial report in Table 3, given to the team by SEAMEO RECFON, summarizes the HENRI
subcontract budgets as of March 31, 2013. The report shows the amount allocated by Harvard in a
direct subcontract to SEAMEO RECFON and in SEAMEO RECFON-managed subcontracts to UNRAM-
SID and UNAND through SEAMEO-RECFON. The 10% overhead appears as indirect costs.
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TABLE 3. Financial Report for HENRI, March 31, 2013 (US$)
Total Indonesian
SEAMEO RECFON SIP/LPP UNRAM FK Andalas
Universities
Expenses Item USAID Total USAID Total USAID Total USAID Total
Contribution Expenses to Contribution Expenses to Contribution Expenses to Contribution Expenses to
Budget Date Budget Date Budget Date Budget Date
Personnel 42,678 26,159 45,639 22,834 15,593 11,500 103,911 60,492
Project Implementation 74,032 19,424 73,649 38,503 32,628 24,126 180,308 82,054
Travel 834 504 3,899 2,698 2,648 824 7,381 4,026
Other Direct Costs 6,097 1,063 6,097 2,612 19 12,193 3,695
Subtotal Direct Costs 123,641 47,153 129,284 66,648 50,869 36,469 303,793 150,270
Indirect Costs @10.0% 12,364 4,715 12,928 6,665 5,087 30,379 11,380
TOTAL COSTS 136,005 51,868 142,212 73,313 55,956 36,469 334,172 161,650
INDONESIAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS

Currently, health data sources in Indonesia reveal the wealth of data collected over the last 5 years.
Household health survey data include the national Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS); the UNICEF
multiple indicator cluster surveys (MICS); data from national, provincial, and district health surveys such
as the RISKESDAS (National Basic Health Research Survey); and the NSS data from HKI. Additional data
(e.g., the national iodine deficiency survey) have been collected by non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), and universities. In some cases, these organizations have carried out studies such as the
Supplementation with Multiple Micronutrients Intervention Trial (SUMMIT) from Lombok, which
followed-up more than 40,000 pregnant women and their infants for up to a year. In the last 15 years,
these activities account for more than 5 million household health data visits, at an estimated cost of
nearly USD 30 million. In the last 5 years data are available from nearly 300,000 households, with health,
nutrition, and socioeconomic information on more than one million persons.
However, the use of these data has generally been limited to simple reports with basic analyses and
tabulations. Moreover, because the data were collected with diverse standards and coding systems,
there have been few integrated analyses to discern temporal or geographical trends. In a few cases,
analyses have been published in peer-reviewed journals, but much of this work has been conducted
outside Indonesia. Indeed, 4 of every 5 health-related articles concerning Indonesia are published by
external institutions and authors. Interpretation of the results of these analyses thus may lack crucial
local perspectives and be eschewed by national personnel who formulate and guide public health policy.
For the most part the wealth of locally available data has not been tapped to inform policy makers and
program planners, and when used may be of limited value and for purposes and by institutions outside
Indonesia. As a result, monitoring, evaluation and planning national and district health programs is
compromised, as is development of in-country capacity for guided decision-making.
This highlights the need and the opportunity to establish higher education programs focused on training
Indonesian public health professionals and strengthening institutional capacity in basic and applied
epidemiology, data analysis, and interpretation. However, while basic training in epidemiology and public
health exists at several institutions, these place limited attention on practical skills required for
integrated analyses and inference skills needed to inform policy and programs. HENRI brings together
national and international educational institutions to train Indonesian scientists and public health
professionals specifically for integration, analysis, and use of country-level data for decision-making. By
broadening the capacity to meaningfully use data at the country level, HENRI seeks to enhance the
impact of health programs for nutrition and maternal and newborn health, and to provide needed
acceleration toward Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5.
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HENRI’S NATIONAL CHALLENGE

The use of data for informed decision-making is critical to improved public health and development.
However, there has generally been limited attention to using existing data in an integrated way to guide
health planning and action. In Indonesia there is a plethora of health data from household surveys, health
information systems, and research. Yet these data have not been systematically used to inform decision-
making or as a training resource for public health professionals.
These utilization gaps are due in part to the limited availability of in-country professionals with
experience and training to integrate, analyze, and interpret health and program data. In the current
Indonesian decentralization era, this shortage is compounded, because each district, as opposed to only
national planners, must make its own policy and program decisions. The few persons having the
requisite skills may have little time to prepare analyses or transfer skills to others. Despite availability of
data, there is a lack of needed guidance for policy makers and program planners. Government officials
are therefore hampered in their efforts to formulate and implement sound public health policies and
may need to make decisions based on anecdotes and other factors.
HENRI Project Objectives and Activities
The HENRI University Partnership programs set out to achieve three objectives:
Objective 1. Establish an active educational data repository and access portal that enables temporal,
spatial and programmatic interlinking of Indonesian as well as selected external data concerning:
a. Nutritional status
b. Infectious diseases
c. Maternal and newborn health
Objective 2. Develop and implement a curriculum for training of integrated and applied data analysis
with the focus on obtaining results for policy making, program planning, and impact evaluation.
Objective 3. Enhance capacity of universities and institutions in Indonesia to provide higher education
and training in research on maternal and newborn health and nutrition by:
a. Providing scholarships and fellowships for researchers and government officials to study in
Indonesia and abroad with HENRI partners
b. Providing funds to analyze and publish findings
c. Providing assistance for workshops and mentoring in guiding planners in the use of findings
EVALUATION QUESTION #1. PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED

The following summary of HENRI’s cumulative achievements for its three main objectives is based on
information received by the evaluation team for activities carried out from 2011 until June 2013:
Objective 1: Establish an active educational data repository and access portal
HENRI has tried to develop and host a sustainable online and offline education portal for data storage
and management. Databases from health-related programs, surveys, and research have been identified,
and some digital databases were obtained. The collected information and data are being uploaded into
the data management system in a structured way, with uniform coding and cross referencing to enable
integrated analyses. These data are kept at SEAMEO RECFON-UI, UNAND, and SID-UNRAM. Support
for data use by Indonesian students and health professionals is fostered through announcements,
postings, and yearly recruitment for workshops, and mentored follow-up. The development of this
process has been a challenging and still unachieved HENRI priority for years 1 and 2.
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Available data are quite diverse. The household survey data alone include information on maternal and
infant mortality, causes of death, nutritional status, food consumption, health service coverage, access
and utilization, reproductive health, sanitation, socioeconomic status, education, communicable and non-
communicable diseases, mental health, and biochemical indicators such as anemia and others. These data
cover nearly all districts in Indonesia and include multiple collections of data from the same areas over
time. Given the diversity of data, the portal tried to focus initially on the integration of maternal and
child health and nutrition data in the last 5 years, with subsequent expansion to 15 years and with later
expansion to additional health topics and time periods. The following data topic areas are being pursued:
1. Evaluation of nutritional status and programs, including:
a. Trends and regional heterogeneity in (i) maternal and child nutrition and (ii) diabetes and
hypertension and other chronic diseases
b. Effectiveness of nutrition programs, including (i) national school feeding and community
nutrition, (ii) food fortification, and (iii) Vitamin A and other micronutrients
c. Utilization of essential nutrition actions
2. Interactions between nutrition and infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis
3. Maternal, neonatal, and child mortality linked to nutrition, including geographic and
socioeconomic diversity, causes of death, and utilization of maternal and child care services
When the data framework is fully established and functional, the core HENRI team will port other
databases and sources that may address health and social issues such as primary education, health
system performance, and cardiovascular disease. HENRI does not seek to own data sets; the respective
owners only authorize use of their data in the HENRI context. Acknowledgement of all data sources and
institutions are still provided in written form on any publications and presentations from data sets.
HENRI partners have focused on constructing universal linkage frameworks. Where feasible, longitudinal
data sets are fragmented into cross-sectional data sets with a common study linkage identification
variable to enable reassembly as needed for analyses. This work is being carried out by HSPH, SID, and
HKI experts in large database construction and management.
Unfortunately, this objective is still only partially achieved. None of the three portals visited is fully
established or functioning as planned. Underfunding and an over-estimation of the capacities of the three
portal-hosting institutions’ capabilities to install and implement an ambitious information-sharing
architecture were further exacerbated by the sudden illness of the lead HENRI IT person, which
prevented the portals from being established. At UNAND and SID-UNRAM, insufficient bandwidth and
poorly functioning IT services are preventing users from accessing data as intended in the original data
network design. At both sites, data can only be downloaded by users from HENRI-supplied computers
installed in laboratories used for training purposes. At SEAMEO RECFON, where UI IT facilities are
already more sophisticated, HENRI data cannot be accessed remotely, but only locally or in the
SEAMEO RECFON computer center by students and faculty authorized to use the data. Open portal
web access may eventually be achievable, but this may require SEAMEO RECFON negotiation with UI’s
IT department for access to UI IT services better designed to meet HENRI needs. The HENRI IT
Services coordinator recommends a redesign and upgrading of the hardware and software elements of
the existing system if the original open access portal characteristics are to be achieved. However, this
would entail a significant increase for this line item in the budget.
The integration of data into a composite HENRI database has been successfully achieved, although
access problems have limited their use to faculty and students receiving HENRI training or doing course
work involving the use of the HENRI database, which now includes national and local Indonesian data as
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well as selected external health data. The 10 installed databases, the 200 indicators identified, and the
current online status of the data accessing system are shown in Table 4.
TABLE 4. HENRI Objective 1 Cumulative Results: Years 1-3
1: Establish an active educational data repository and access portal that enables temporal, spatial and
programmatic interlinking of Indonesian as well as selected external health data.
Number of databases 0 Y1: 4 Y1: 5 (DHS 2010, DHS 2007, IFLS, NSS 1999-2004, RisKesDas
included in database Y2: 2 2007)
Y3: 4 Y2: 3 (Benefit Evaluation Study II (BESII), World Bank
LOP: 10 Governance)
Y3: 1 (PODES 2010) with 3 pending (RisKesDas 2010, DHS
2012, RisFasKes 2010)
Number of 0 Y1: 100 Y1: 100
indicators/variables Y2: 50 Y2: 60
Y3: 50 Y3: 60 completed and ~100 pending
LOP: 200
Number of types of 0 Y1: 3 Y1: 3 (District codes, anthropometry, SES)
indicators that have been Y2: 4 Y2: none
standardized (e.g., Y3: 1 Y3: 5 pending (data quality, morbidity, birth weight, variance
geographic location, LOP: 8 scores, internal consistency scores)
morbidity measures, SES,
data quality scores)
Number of Data Portals 0 Y1: 1 Y1: 1 (SEAMEO RECFON)?
established at 3 target Y2: 2 Y2: 2 (UNRAM, UNAND) servers set up and data installed. ?
universities Y3: 0 Additional local trainings required to support data access and
LOP: 3 gateway.
Y3: Additional training to be completed
Findings
1. The establishment of functioning portals at SEAMEO RECFON, UNAND, and UNRAM has
been delayed by poor system design and lack of leadership.
2. The HENRI database has successfully integrated data from 10 separate sources, which still
cannot be accessed by users online.
3. The HENRI database analysis training has not yet involved trainees from GOI ministries who
work with national public health data.
4. With assistance provided by HKI, SID, and HSPH baseline indicators have been successfully
identified for the HENRI database.
5. Data integrated from independent sources into HENRI may make the database incompatible
with official GOI data sources.
Objective 2: Develop and implement a curriculum for training
Along with establishment of the HENRI educational database and portal, the teaching content at each
partner university is being upgraded to better reflect HENRI content needs. These changes, which are
not curricular but adjustments made to existing master’s degree lesson plans, seek to help faculty and
students integrate data analysis techniques and skills into selected courses. This approach also focuses
on improving program planning and evaluation. The training methods have emphasized techniques that
integrate applied and theoretical concepts related to data analysis, inference, and knowledge of public
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health and programs. This pedagogical approach focuses on learning-by-doing and is being developed by
national and international teacher-researchers and public health experts from HENRI partner
institutions, assisted by invited Harvard international experts.
An illustrative list of key teaching modules developed by SEAMEO RECFON includes:
1. Health Service Utilization During Pregnancy and Delivery
2. Breastfeeding Practices in Indonesia
3. Trends of Diarrheal Diseases in Indonesia
4. Learning to Prioritize in Health Promotion
5. The Nutrition Transition
6. Generating Qualitative Research Questions from Surveys
7. Data Quality for Surveillance and Monitoring
8. Trends in Under-Nutrition in Indonesia
9. A Situational Analysis of the Double Burden of Malnutrition.
The following activities were carried out in Y1 and Y2; see Table 5 for additional details:
1. The existing master’s degree program at SEAMEO RECFON was reviewed and modified,
incorporating 12 data-based lesson plans (LPs), exercises and homework questions into the
revised LPs. Training in Lesson Plan Revision for faculty and staff at partner universities has
resulted in some successful revisions of their lesson plans and teaching modules reflecting the
quantitative and data analysis skills promoted through HENRI training courses and workshops.
2. Piloted examples and exercises were reviewed and modified, and some were shared for use in
and distribution between partner institutions.
2: Develop and implement a curriculum for training of integrated and applied data analysis with the focus on
obtaining results for policy making, program planning, and impact evaluation.
Number of Universities 0 Y1: 1 Y1: 1 (SEAMEO)
with new HENRI Y2: 2 Y2: 2 (LPs being developed at UNRAM and UNAND and course launched
curriculum Y3: 0 at UNRAM)
LOP: 3 Y3: course launched at UNAND
Number of advanced 0 Y1: 3 Y1: 3 (SEAMEO: Helda Khusun, Linda Wibowo, Judhiastuty
faculty trained in HENRI Y2: 2 Februhartanty)
approach Y3: 0 Y2: 4 (UNRAM: Anwar Fachry; UNAND: Rizanda Machmud, Rosvita;
LOP: 5 University of Indonesia: Dewi Gayatri)
Y3: 2 (SEAMEO: Airin Roshita, Rina Agustina)
Number of Training of 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 2

Trainers (ToT) held for Y2: 1 Y2: 2
junior faculty or new Y3: 1 Y3: 2 pending
sites LOP: 4
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Number o f candidates 0 Y1: 6 Y1: 6 (SEAMEO RECFON: Helda Khusun, Judhuastuty Februhartanty, Evie
participating in HENRI Y2: 6 Ermayanti, Luh Ade Ari Wiradnyani, Lina Rospita, Linda Wibowo)
ToT for junior faculty Y3: 2 Y2: 12 (UNRAM: Anwar Fachry, Liana Suryaningsih, Dodi, Abbas;
or for new sites LOP: 14 UNAND: Kamal Idrus, Rosvita, Rizanda, Delmia, Yuniar; University
of Indonesia: Aria Kekalih, Dewi Gayatri; Trisakti University: Rina
Kesumaratna)
Y3: 9 (SEAMEO RECFON: Umi Fahmida, Airin Roshita, Rina Agustini, Siti
Muslimatun, Dian Basuki, Dwi Nastiti Iswarawanti; UNRAM:
Ridwan, Ahmad Sauqi, Jaya Putra; UNAND: 6 additional faculty
pending training)
Number of HENRI 0 Y1: 3 Y1: 4 (SEAMEO RECFON: Helda Khusun, Judhiastuty Februhartanty, Linda
Qualified Trainers Y2: 6 Wibowo, Lina Rospita)
overall Y3: 0 Y2: 3 (UNRAM: Anwar Fachry; UNAND: Rizanda Machmud, Rosvita)
LOP: 9 Y3: 4 (SEAMEO RECFON: Airin Roshita, Siti Muslimatun, Rina Agustina, Lug
Ade Aryani)
Number of final core 0 Y1: 3 Y1: 3 (SEAMEO RECFON: Data quality for surveillance and monitoring,
lesson plans completed Y2: 7 Trends in undernutrition in Indonesia, Situational analysis of the
and/or modified Y3: 2 double burden of malnutrition)
LOP: 12 Y2: 6 (SEAMEO RECFON: Prioritization in health promotion, The
nutrition transition, Generating qualitative research questions from a
surveys, Trends of diarrheal diseases in Indonesia, Health service
utilization during pregnancy and delivery, Breastfeeding Practice in
Indonesia)
Y3: 21 pending (3 from SEAMEO RECFON, 10 from UNRAM, 8 from
UNAND)
Findings
1. The HENRI curriculum development process isn’t curriculum development, but a revision and
adjustment of existing lesson plans to reflect HENRI content.
2. The LP development process is taking longer than planned because some faculty and staff don’t
have the computer and data analysis skills needed.
3. UNRAM staff are lagging behind in the LP process and still need more guidance and training.
4. Not all participants attending ToT courses were able to transfer skills learned to staff in their
institutions.
5. A lack of project reports, activity descriptions, and consistent up-to-date project information
made it hard for evaluators to understand the roles of HENRI partners implementing project
activities at multiple sites.
Objective 3: Enhance capacity and provide higher education and training
As the HENRI educational database and curriculum were created, training of professionals was
systematically accelerated in a stepwise manner. This enabled HENRI to continually evaluate and
improve data use and the curriculum for teaching and research. HENRI has funded Indonesian students
and public health professionals in the core group of universities through scholarships for national and
international advanced degree training. The international stature and capabilities of some of these
professionals will continue to be encouraged by providing small grants to support analysis, publication,
and dissemination of findings based on use of the HENRI database.
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Additional support activities have included technical and financial assistance for workshops to guide
planners in the use of findings, intensive one-on-one mentoring of trainees by HSPH, and senior HENRI
partnership faculty at SEAMEO RECFON-UI, UNAND, and UNRAM. A feature of the HENRI program
to which attention is most frequently drawn by beneficiaries is the existence of a long-term mentoring
network, which is enabling fledgling scientists to develop along a career path that facilitates ongoing
engagement and transfer of their acquired research teaching and writing skills to in-country university
programs, both in Jakarta and in the provinces.
Collaborating scientists at HSPH, SID and UNRAM, SEAMEO RECFON, UI, and UNAND have piloted
processes to promote higher education using local data gleaned from district public health and
agricultural service sources for capacity building. This was accomplished in the context of the SUMMIT
study, which was carried out in West Nusa Tenggara. The approach has resulted in strong participation
and education of national staff and training of students, resulting in several peer-reviewed papers and
dissertations (5-9), 4 persons in master’s degree programs, and 3 doctoral enrollees, with one receiving
her Ph.D. in 2009.
The following key activities were successfully undertaken in YI-Y3; see Table 6 for additional details:
1. Selected 3 Ph.D. candidates and 4 Master’s candidates for HENRI Y1 and Y2.
2. The first HENRI course was implemented at SEAMEO RECFON in January 2012, with faculty
leaders Dr. Shankar, Dr. Khusun, and Dr. Wibowo. This Faculty Assessment and Training [Part
I] course for HENRI instructors included five days of intensive sessions (9 am-5 pm) on such
topics as assessment of database content and database quality, issues in combining or merging
databases, and assessing trends over time and spatial trends, with participants working both in
small groups and as a whole. A plan also was developed to roll out HENRI at UNAND in Y2 and
at UNRAM, after a late start, during late Y2 and Y3.
3. A model HENRI intern selection and activity plan was developed and implemented in Y2.
4. HENRI program information to select candidates for Y2 and Y3 was successfully disseminated.
5. A primary data gathering program with district health and agricultural agencies was developed
and is being carried out at UNAND and UNRAM.
6. A workshop course was developed and implemented at Harvard. Eight students were selected
for the 6-week Harvard Summer Seminar (HSS) in the summer of 2012. A second HSS, with 4
HENRI students, takes place during July-August 2013.
3: Enhance capacity of universities and institutions in Indonesia to provide higher education and training in
research on maternal and newborn health and nutrition by providing scholarships and fellowships for researchers
and government officials to study in Indonesia and abroad with HENRI partners, providing funds to analyze and
publish findings, and build mentoring networks
Number of students 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 2 (University of Indonesia: Luh Ade Aryani, Aria Kekalih)
funded for PhD Y2: 1 Y2: 1 (NTB Province: Eka Dewi)
program Y3: 0
LOP: 3
Number of students 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 2 (UNAND: Yori Novrianto, Febri Zulliadi)
funded for MSc Y2: 2 Y2: 1 (UNRAM: Seneng)
program Y3: 0 Y3: 1 Pending re-selection after withdrawal of a previous
LOP: 4 candidate
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Number of HENRI 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 0

writing Y2: 2 Y2: 5 (Kun Susiloretni, Ketut Aryastami, Annisa Ristya, Idral, Purnakary,
internships Y3: 2 Suparmi)
LOP: 6 Y3: 4 (Azalea Ayuningtyas, Margaret Triyana, Philips Loh)
Number of 0 Y1: 0 Note: these Fellowships were intended for faculty and students
HENRI Y2: 14 who would attend specific HENRI courses rather than be enrolled in
Fellowships Y3: 14 the full program. This process was later changed because Fellows could
LOP: 28 not gain academic credit for these short courses. As such, the Fellows
included persons obtaining independent funding to attend HENRI
courses at SEAMEO RECFON.
Y1: 2
Y2: 2
Y3: Additional fellowships pending local arrangements at UNAND and
UNRAM for HENRI fellow at those institutions.
Number of 0 Y1: 1 Y1: 1
manuscripts/policy Y2: 15 Y2: 15
papers drafted Y3: 15 Y3: 3 drafted with 12 pending
LOP: 31
Number 0 Y1: 1 Y1: 1
manuscripts/policy Y2: 10 Y2: 5
papers submitted Y3: 20 Y3: 25 pending
for LOP: 31
consideration
Papers/reports 0 Y1: 1 Y1: 1
actively shared Y2: 15 Y2: 3
with stakeholders Y3: 15 Y3: 0 (27 pending to be completed in June/July 2013)
LOP: 31
Harvard course Y/N Yes, developed and launched
Number of Indonesian 0 Y1: 0 Y1: 0
scholars completing Y2: 4 Y2: 8 (Defriman Djafri, Rizanda Machmud, Lina Rospita, Rina
Harvard summer session Y3: 2 Agustina, Anna Mauladyani, Christiana Titalay, Dewi Gayatri, Suparmi)
LOP: 6 Y3: 4 (in process of application/selection for July 2013)
Number of host 0 Y1: 15 Y1: 44 (36 in SEAMEO RECFON-based trainings and events, 8 in
country Y2: 42 UNRAM/SID-based events with the NTB Provincial Departments of
persons exposed to Y3: 28 Planning and Health)
HENRI LOP: 85 Y2: 41 (23 in SEAMEO RECFON-based trainings and events, 18 in
training or events UNRAM/SID-based trainings and events with the NTB District-level
Departments of Health and Education)
Y3: 226 (72 in SEAMEO RECFON-based trainings and events, 58 in
UNRAM/SID-based trainings and events, 96 in UNAND-based
trainings and events)
Alumni 0 Y1: 0 Y1: 0

database/network Y2: 1 Y2: not yet established
established Y3: 0 Y3: pending
LOP: 1
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Findings
1. Training HENRI participants to master data analysis and writing skills is proving more challenging
than had been expected.
2. Progress in the writing and preparation of publishable manuscripts is slower than planned.
3. HENRI coordinators at UNAND and UNRAM drew attention to the uneven distribution of
fellowships and scholarships which favored staff and students at UI.
4. Only one Harvard Summer Seminar (HSS) participant completed the two manuscript
requirement upon completion of the first Summer Seminar in 2012, which raises questions
about the appropriateness of course criteria for success.
5. The demand to attend the HSS far exceeds the resources available to send participants to
Harvard for the six-week course, thus only four HENRI participants are funded to attend the
second HSS in 2013.
EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES

SEAMEO RECFON: The Dean of the UI Faculty of Medicine (and ex-Director of SEAMEO RECFON)
was adamant in stating that Harvard’s leadership of HENRI was too dependent on Dr. Shankar and that
Harvard seems to have walked away from any institutional involvement. UI agreed to join the
partnership mainly because of Harvard’s participation and had expected more UI visits by Harvard
researchers and faculty. Much of what was being taught was already known by many UI faculty. What
was gained was encouragement and training in using the results of data analysis to learn to write quality
products for international publication, and an understanding of the importance of a collaborative
research framework, which involved close cooperation with local and international partners. That aspect
of the program was worth keeping, and the HENRI model should be replicated locally and regionally.
The pilot and small-scale nature of HENRI needs to be better understood if Indonesia is to learn more
from the HENRI experience.
The SEAMEO RECFON HENRI leadership was proud to have maintained a high female-to-male ratio in
their staff recruitment and in the recruitment and selection of interns, scholars and trainees; see Annex
E for a table showing HENRI program beneficiaries by gender.
UNAND: The Dean of the Faculty of Public Health thought HENRI was the first time lecturers and
students had seen a connection between classroom theory and field practice, because of the work done
with local districts. UNAND also has helped health officials in the field understand the importance of
using data for evidence-based policy making.
The Vice Rector IV described how HENRI may be encouraging the Faculty of Public Health to
collaborate with the Ministry for Underdeveloped Districts on a “Healthy Villages Project” now
involving 5 provinces and 15 districts, which is a scaling up from the initial 3 districts with which HENRI
is working. He thought there may be a chance to sustain HENRI activities beyond USAID’s funding
support by going to the Research and Cooperation Division of the MoH, or the UN University’s
International Institute for Global Health.
UNAND officials believe that participation in HENRI is beginning to have a positive impact on the
faculty’s capacity to research and write quality articles, which in turn is having a visible impact on the
way courses are taught. They also believe HENRI workshops and training have given UNAND a valuable
opportunity to encourage young talent.
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UNRAM-SID: Despite having only recently become engaged in HENRI, UNRAM has gained in a number
of ways, including the recruitment and selection of 1 Ph.D. and I Master’s scholar, as well as the
selection of 3 lecturers in the Faculty of Agriculture and I lecturer from P2KP UNRAM to attend the
first HENRI Training of Trainers workshop at SEAMEO RECFON. UNRAM also sent 2 HENRI
facilitators and a HENRI coordinator for a workshop on LP Development at SEAMEO RECFON.
UNRAM, with SID help, has set up a computer laboratory to enable UNRAM faculty and students to
access HENRI data on site, but still without a functioning remote access portal. UNRAM also is now
working with SID and HENRI to continue LP development for data-driven courses in a number of areas;
these courses will soon be taught.
HKI: The main benefit from HENRI was undoubtedly gaining status from collaboration with HSPH
researchers and Harvard. Most Indonesian universities, especially the most prominent ones, are always
looking for ways to increase their international status and visibility. Many HENRI partners may have
sought that kind of credibility.
Findings
1. Many HENRI partners reported positive gains and benefits from participation in HENRI,
especially for younger staff and faculty.
2. UNRAM, a late arrival, was slow to benefit from all of the HENRI activities because staff were
slow to grasp the data analysis aspects of the HENRI program due to weak computer and
statistical skills.
3. The workshop and training aspects of HENRI were well received and most beneficial. However,
more training is requested.
4. The field work and local data gathering dimensions of HENRI are having a positive impact on
how the Public Health and Agriculture faculties teach and their students learn.
EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS
SEAMEO RECFON: In SEAMEO RECFON, the challenge to think more critically about research and
writing with an evidence-based focus was new and difficult for most faculty and staff to grasp, because
they seldom write or publish at the international levels being encouraged by HENRI.
Senior staff and faculty discussed the Harvard-SEAMEO RECFON-UI connection in critical terms. Some
were disappointed Harvard wasn’t more involved in HENRI and were surprised that much of the work
was left to the Harvard P.I. who, while appreciated for his ability and expertise, was one of only two
HSPH staff to visit Indonesia. They had expected greater involvement and support from other HSPH
researchers and faculty.
UNAND: During interviews, focus groups and discussions, UNAND staff, faculty, students and public
sector officials shared several notable unintended benefits of their HENRI partnership participation.
They were adamant in praising HENRI’s influence on speeding up and improving the connections
between local public health needs at the district level and UNAND’s research and teaching interests.
For the first time there is a real effort to work with local public health providers on common health
needs and issues, and this has come about mainly because of the Faculty of Public Health’s need for
primary health data, which are being collected with the help of public health officials in three districts –
Agam, Limaputuh, and Payacumbuh. There, with help from faculty and students, district health offices are
improving their data collection and analytical skills in line with a more focused understanding of local
health needs.
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The Dean of Public Health concurred and noted several unexpected benefits, including the active use of
local data to inform district health officials’ policy decisions and the development and implementation of
training at district health offices, which is challenging UNAND faculty to refine and strengthen their
teaching methods.
UNRAM-SID: Interviews and discussions with SID researchers and the Dean of Agriculture and senior
faculty at UNRAM highlighted the unexpected benefits to HENRI from working with an Agriculture
Faculty (AF) instead of a Public Health Faculty. The development of a HENRI database with local primary
data dimensions was a unexpected but needed dimension. When HENRI urged the AF to fill the gap left
by the Medical Faculty’s inability to respond, this provided a stimulus for the AF to change its teaching,
research, and management methods. The international dimensions of the HENRI partnership were
unexpected but well received by the Dean, who has a vision for putting the Agriculture Faculty on the
regional and international map. For faculty and students to participate meaningfully, however, more must
be done to improve their mastery of statistical, computer, and English language skills. HENRI must
prepare students and faculty from provincial universities to reach the capacity needed to do better
research and to write and publish internationally.
HKI: The new HKI leadership who were interviewed had not been sufficiently involved in HENRI to
comment.
Findings
1. The inclusion of local primary data collected in collaboration with local public health offices is a
welcome and unexpected first step toward formulating evidence-based public health policies.
2. The lack of Harvard faculty involvement in supporting HENRI activities was an unexpected
disappointment.
3. The inclusion of a Faculty of Agriculture in the HENRI framework is a positive innovation that
could have important positive outcomes for future collaboration between agriculture and public
health in Indonesia.
4. The HENRI framework of collaboration between Indonesian universities under technical
support from a prestigious international university like Harvard has helped to provide standards
and highlight institutional strengths and weaknesses.
5. HENRI management failed to take into consideration the different capacity levels of partner
institutions and could have done more to provide remedial training in statistical and English
language skills, prior to initiating research and writing activities.
EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY

The lessons learned highlight all the main activity areas specified in the HENRI Cooperative Agreement’s
Scope of Work and reflected in the IBTCI/JBS Intl. HENRI evaluation’s analysis and focus.
Curriculum development
 Improvements in LPs will probably not have the transformational impact needed to change what
and how partnership faculty teach.
 The Training of Trainers workshops designed to train staff and faculty in LP development will
need more consistent post-training follow-up and support to make a lasting impact.
 University faculty teaching and research is beginning to change, but more time will be needed to
gauge the impact and sustainability of these changes at UNAND and UNRAM.
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 LP revisions alone may not have a long-term positive impact on faculty teaching methods and
content.
Data analysis and research services
 HENRI has introduced new methods and approaches to data management and analysis, but only
continued application will have a sustained impact on the quality and standard of research
publications.
 HENRI’s small-scale pilot approach can only result in positive change if HENRI skills can be
shared more broadly with public/private sector data managers and researchers.
 HENRI’s database is currently only used by HENRI beneficiaries. Open online access will require
a redesign of HENRI’s portal implementation plan.
 A more focused attempt should be made to work with the MoH and other GoI data centers to
harmonize HENRI’s database in line with national data collection and data use criteria.
Refereed research publications
 The emphasis on carrying out quality analysis to improve writing and publication of national
research is only a first step toward helping researchers reach international standards.
 The mentoring of young authors by HSPH staff and senior faculty at HENRI partner institutions
is proving to be productive and rewarding for all involved.
 Raising analysis and writing standards is proving challenging, because many researchers don’t
read or publish much. (In June 2013, while the team prepared this report, the first HENRI-
researched paper was accepted for publication in an international journal of reputation.)
 Perhaps HENRI set too ambitious an objective in expecting beneficiaries to be able to produce
31 publishable products by the Project End Date (PED). More time will be required to reach this
target.
Public/private partnerships
 Aside from Harvard’s involvement, HENRI has not attempted to build private partnerships in
Indonesia.
 HENRI has put out tentative feelers to GoI ministries (e.g., MoH, MoEC, MOSA) involved in
data management and processing, but needs to do more. International agencies approached in
Indonesia include UNICEF and UNDP.
 Data management work was carried out by NGOs like HKI and SID, and requests for data from
UN sources like UNICEF were successfully received.
 HENRI provided graduate and postgraduate fellowships for staff and students to train abroad.
 One of HENRI’s main objectives has been the provision of grants to beneficiaries for internships,
scholarships, and fellowship attendance at training workshops, conferences and seminars. By
June 2013, HENRI events had achieved the following attendance levels: 3 Ph.D. and 4 Master’s
students; 8 HSS participants; 4 internships; 10 curriculum trainees; 19 ToT 1&2 trainees; 14
writing and publication trainees; 8 Lesson Plan trainees; 22 statistical trainees; 10 Ph.D. & MS
course trainees; 5 Ph.D.-only course trainees; and 18 HENRI short course trainees.
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 HENRI coordinators at UNRAM and UNAND complained that the selection process for HENRI
scholarships, internships and participation in other training events favored SEAMEO RECFON-
UI or candidates with more exposure to English and statistics.
 The selection of participants for the HSS and other scholarships should be distributed more
evenly between partner institutions.
 Whether beneficiaries of HENRI training and scholarships will return to their parent institutions
after training, and for how long, remains a question.
Findings
1. Lesson Plan revisions alone may not be enough to make a long-term positive impact on faculty
teaching methods and content.
2. A more focused attempt should be made to work with the MoH and other GoI data centers to
harmonize HENRI’s data base in line with national data criteria and standards.
3. The mentoring of young authors by Harvard staff and senior faculty at HENRI partner
institutions is proving to be productive and rewarding for all involved.
4. Aside from Harvard’s involvement, HENRI has not attempted to build private partnerships in
Indonesia.
5. HENRI partners have put out tentative feelers to GoI ministries (e.g., MoH, MoE, MoAgr and
MOSA) involved in data management and processing, but still needs to do more.
6. The selection of participants for the HSS and other scholarships should be distributed more
evenly between partner institutions.
EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Following are highlights of insights shared by key informants during interviews in each partnership
institution. Senior faculty and key HENRI informants were open in expressing their opinions and views
concerning HENRI’s positive and negative contributions.
UNAND’s Vice-Rector IV was positive about the benefits gained from the HENRI partnership and
mentioned the improved capacity of UNAND staff. HENRI’s stimulus has also led to a new and active
collaboration with local public health authorities at the principal district levels. Both developments will
have a long-term impact on UNAND’s public health capacity. However, he did want to draw attention
to the small proportion of the HENRI funds received by UNAND (about $50,000) as compared with the
funding they have received through a USAID PEER award ($150,000) and through a recent grant from
the German government (EU100 million over 10 years) for collaboration with two German universities
and five Indonesian universities.
A SEAMEO RECFON senior HENRI coordinator drew attention to the many benefits received through
HENRI, especially work by the Harvard P.I. to raise data analysis and writing standards. She praised the
efforts of the Harvard P.I. to manage HENRI remotely through periodic Skype calls from Boston. In this
way, the P.I. helped SEAMEO RECFON managers understand the benefits of timely communications.
She also pointed out missing elements in SEAMEO RECFON’s relationship with Harvard. The need for a
Harvard in situ presence was obvious, since many issues could not be handled remotely. Similarly,
SEAMEO RECFON had expected to gain access to more Harvard services and resources, especially the
Harvard library for research information, but this is still not forthcoming. The lack of a well-conceived IT
plan and stronger leadership was a main reason the data portals are not working. The multi-partner
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problems arising from a complex project like HENRI were not helped by the constant HENRI
management changes at SEAMEO RECFON and other partner institutions.
The SEAMEO RECFON Director emphasized the importance of HENRI for UI. Building a relationship
with a university of Harvard’s caliber was probably one of the principal reasons for agreeing to sign the
subcontract with Harvard. What was needed, though, was a fully funded institution-to-institution
relationship with Harvard that would be on an equal standing. In the HENRI partnership, Harvard is the
dominant institution, which was not what UI had expected. Future agreements with Harvard should
build in staff and faculty exchanges which would bring Harvard researchers to UI, and vice versa. She had
not yet visited other HENRI partners but she thought there was inequality in partner capacities and that
much more remedial training needed to be given to weaker partners (e.g., UNRAM). For continuity to
be possible, the Harvard agreement would need to be reviewed and revised so more could be received
from Harvard. Of the three HENRI objectives, (1) has not really been achieved, while (2) and (3) have
been achieved only partially.
A SEAMEO RECFON research coordinator expressed the importance of Harvard through the increased
visibility resulting from HENRI in public health and nutrition fields. HENRI raised manuscript publication
standards and expectations, which may have long-term positive consequences. The opportunity
provided by HENRI scholarships for young researchers and faculty to learn cutting edge analytical skills
was appreciated by those who benefitted. However, writing skills have not improved as fast as had been
expected. Nationally, Indonesians don’t read to write very much, even in their own languages. HENRI’s
pace was also too fast and too overloaded for many participants to benefit, especially since many HENRI
participants have more than one job. In Indonesia, getting people to attend meetings on time is difficult
and made worse by the fact that not many read emails. In some respects, HENRI’s working style may be
insensitive to Indonesia’s work culture.
At UNRAM, the Dean of Agriculture, who brought his faculty into HENRI when the Medical Faculty
stepped down, thought HENRI was an excellent opportunity to bring food production and nutritional
issues in line with public health needs. This was probably a first nationally, and maybe also for the region.
This led to an MOU with SID for participation in HENRI. His faculty attended workshops on data
management and want to integrate agricultural data with public health data at the district level. So far,
they have only a HENRI link through SID, but see this as a chance to put UNRAM agriculture on the
regional map. The importance of working regionally and internationally is a priority. He currently has
seven lecturers working on HENRI data and wants to add more. Lesson plan refinement is helpful, but
they need more help in this and in data analysis. A useful, unexpected benefit is that undergraduates who
need primary data for their theses are now more involved. He wants to be better integrated in the
HENRI network and also be invited to seminars and conferences; however, he has no funding and needs
at least two more years to benefit from HENRI.
The SID coordinator thought HENRI was needed because it encouraged NGOs and universities to work
together and value each other’s contributions. HENRI made local data available and encouraged those
data to be more closely linked to national GoI data. HENRI also encouraged coordination between
interested groups, forced SID to plan how to work better in a team, helped SID and UNRAM
understand the importance of networking, and brought public sector groups together to work on
common problems. However, the project is too short to make a lasting impact. Eastern Indonesia
doesn’t yet have the human capacities to gain a lot from HENRI and UNAND, and it still needs a lot of
training and capacity building attention. The SEAMEO RECFON contact isn’t as strong as it should be
and only exists because of their subcontract.
The HSPH HENRI P.I., who was interviewed at length in Jakarta, had many insights to share. He thought
managing a project remotely from Boston was challenging, especially one with so many actors, though
he thought the biweekly Skype conference calls had achieved some management success.
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Ideally, Harvard should have someone on the ground to look after HENRI management and logistical
issues, but the limited budget and Harvard’s rule forbidding Harvard staff to live in the field over long
periods of time prevented that from happening. He currently allocates about 30% of his HENRI time to
management, 30% to mentoring, and 40% to training, which includes travel to Indonesia about four times
a year. Ten percent (10%) of his salary comes from HENRI funding, and 10% from the HSPH; the rest is
paid from other projects. He also thought he had not made enough effort to get HENRI partners to do
the reporting required, which explained the lack of organized HENRI reports and written information.
HENRI was his first P.I. experience and the first project he has managed remotely; he has had a lot of
field experience, but had always managed previous project work in situ. He emphasized that leadership
was loose in the field because SEAMEO RECFON was never intended to be the leading organization,
although it has taken on that role informally.
In his view, HENRI is really a pilot project, and the lessons learned here would help for future attempts
to form national or regional collaborative research endeavors. The major lessons learned were: a lack of
beneficiary understanding about which issues are important for public health; a lack of interpretive skills
leading to weak analyses; beneficiaries not ready to carry out critical analysis; and a national over-
fascination with process and technique, with inadequate attention to results and outcomes. If he had to
assess the sustainability of HENRI, he would say that SEAMEO RECFON could take lessons learned and
turn them into something of lasting value; UNAND has taken on some HENRI elements which they may
be able to sustain, especially the district level work with primary data from local public health offices;
and UNRAM still needs to catch up and do a lot of consolidation, with the Faculty of Agriculture
enthusiasm the key for sustainability. None of the partners are yet ready or willing to transfer what they
have learned to other national institutions. The HENRI learning and application process has been a lot
slower overall than he had expected.
Strengths
1. HENRI has raised awareness among most partners of the importance of collecting and managing
data systematically, if the data are to reflect actual public health problems.
2. HENRI’s framework of collaborating institutions distributed across the nation may be a model
worth replicating for future research endeavors in Indonesia and elsewhere in ASEAN.
3. The training and mentoring processes developed through HENRI are important examples for
developing and strengthening university faculty capacities in the future.
4. The Harvard-sponsored HSS made a positive impact on those who attended because it was
intensive, of a high standard, and successfully transferred advanced data analysis and writing skills
to participants.
5. While all partnership institutions have benefitted from initial training events, some will require
more frequent remedial training and technical assistance for any gains to be sustainable.
Weaknesses
1. While Dr. Shankar’s contribution was much appreciated, the project would have gained from
having a constant Harvard in-situ presence. Other USAID partnerships have such a presence, so
perhaps this would have been possible. (Harvard’s P.I. allocates about 30% of his HENRI time on
management; 40% on training activities, and 30% on mentoring faculty and students.)
2. HENRI’s writing and publications objective may have been too ambitious given the starting point
for participants in partnership institutions, especially in terms of their English language and
writing abilities.
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3. The misreading of Indonesia’s IT reality led to the installation of a flawed HENRI portal system.
This was later compounded by the absence of consistent leadership for this component.
4. Harvard’s slow distribution of funds to subcontractors like SEAMEO RECFON-UI caused major
delays in the implementation of training and conference events.
5. Harvard’s exceptionally high overhead charges and subcontract fees prevented the setting up of
a different and more effective HENRI subcontractual configuration, which could have included
better managed subcontracts.
6. Some senior partnership coordinators complained that the value added by the Harvard name
was disappointing. In the future, they would prefer longer term institution-to-institution
arrangements with two-way Fulbright-type exchanges. (The USAID University Partnerships
Columbia University-UI CCP partnership was discussed as an alternative model.)
7. HENRI funding levels were insufficient for achieving HENRI objectives over the time period of
the Cooperative Agreement. A more equal sharing of funds among partners would have helped.
Findings
1. HENRI’s management, carried out remotely from Boston, may have delayed implementation and
weakened collaboration between partners lacking closer contact with Harvard’s Principal
Investigator.
2. There may have been an overly ambitious attempt to drive beneficiaries faster toward program
goals than they were comfortable with, given Indonesia’s slower paced culture.
3. Some senior Indonesian beneficiaries, while appreciative of the opportunity to work with
Harvard, were adamant their relationship in the future should be more balanced and allow more
equal participation of U.S. and partner institutions.
4. Many of the skills learned through HENRI need further consolidation if they are to be sustained,
especially in provincial universities like UNRAM and UNAND.
5. Some of HENRI’s objectives are still not achieved and will need more time for completion.
6. Low reading, writing, and analytical capacities may be a major constraint in HENRI’s attempt to
reach the standards set for writing and publishing internationally.
7. Positive comments were received concerning Dr. Shankar’s contributions, especially his training
and mentoring inputs.
CONCLUSIONS
The following conclusions are drawn from report findings and related project documentation:
1. The HENRI curriculum development process isn’t curriculum development, but a revision and
adjustment of existing LPs to reflect HENRI content. To date the LP development process is
taking longer than planned, because some faculty and staff lack the needed computer and data
analysis skills.
2. Not all participants who attended ToT training courses were able to transfer skills learned to
staff in their institutions, which may partially explain why UNRAM’s staff are lagging behind in
implementing the LP and manuscript writing procedures.
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3. HENRI’s remote management model may have contributed to a shortage of detailed project
reports, activity descriptions, and factual project information, which limited evaluators’
understanding of the role of HENRI partners in implementing project activities at multiple sites.
4. The demand to attend the HSS far exceeds the resources available to send participants to
Harvard for the six-week course; for this reason only four persons are funded to attend the
second HSS in 2013.
5. Only one of eight participants attending the 2012 HSS completed the two written manuscript
standard for success, which raises questions about the appropriateness of the course content
and criteria for success.
6. The primary data gathering program at the district health and agricultural office levels was
developed with HENRI assistance and is being implemented at UNAND and UNRAM. It is
considered a successful innovation and a positive public health and agricultural contribution.
7. HENRI management failed to take into consideration the different capacity levels of partner
institutions and could have done more to provide remedial training in statistics and English
language skills prior to initiating research and writing activities.
8. Perhaps HENRI set too ambitious an objective in expecting beneficiaries to be able to produce
31 publishable products by the Project End Date (PED). More time will be required to reach this
target, because many Indonesian researchers don’t read much or publish a lot.
9. The HENRI framework for collaboration between Indonesian universities under technical
support from a prestigious international university, like Harvard, may have helped to raise
standards and bring to light partner institutions’ strengths and weaknesses.
10. Many HENRI partners reported positive gains and benefits from HENRI participation, especially
for younger staff and faculty whose teaching and research is beginning to change, but more time
will be needed to gauge the impact and sustainability of these aspects at UNAND and UNRAM.
11. While, the Harvard PI’s contribution was much appreciated, the project would have gained
more from having a constant Harvard in situ presence. Harvard’s slow distribution of funds to
sub-contractors like SEAMEO RECFON-UI caused major delays in the implementation of
training and conference events.
12. Some senior Indonesian beneficiaries, while appreciative of working with Harvard, were adamant
in wanting a more balanced relationship based on equality between their institutions, adding that
there may also have been an over-ambitious Harvard-US enthusiasm to drive beneficiaries faster
than they were able, given Indonesia’s slower paced culture.
13. The HENRI database has successfully integrated data from 10 separate sources, which still
cannot be accessed by users online due to the non-functioning portals at SEAMEO RECFON,
UNAND and UNRAM, because their installation has been delayed by poor system design and
lack of leadership.
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IV. RECOMMENDATIONS
The report’s 14 recommendations are of three types: general recommendations, TPC partnership
recommendations, and HENRI partnership recommendations. All recommendations are informed by the
report’s 81 findings relative to the five evaluation questions. While the general recommendations apply,
in varying degrees, to both partnerships and reflect the collective findings, the TPC and HENRI
partnership recommendations are each based on the team’s findings for that partnership relative to the
evaluation questions. Given the large number and overlapping nature of these findings, the partnership-
specific recommendations are presented below without reference to specific findings.
For both TPC and HENRI, it is important to distinguish between partnership sustainability and program
sustainability. It may be less important that the same partners continue their collaboration on the same
objectives and programs than that the Indonesian partners build on their experiences and achievements
through TPC and HENRI and explore other forms of collaboration to strengthen their respective
institutional capacities in ways that address Indonesian local, regional, and national priorities.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
1. From the start of a US-Indonesia partnership, Indonesian partners should adopt a more inclusive
approach to partnership building and program sustainability. As appropriate, they should explore
and create new or modified collaborations that link partners’ teaching, research, and outreach
programs with the needs and interests of other universities, firms, NGOs, and public agencies.
This requires that each partnership emphasize the expansion and enhancement of its external
collaboration networks (e.g., with GoI ministries, local government offices, international NGO
policy makers, private firms) to build partner capacities in areas central for the development of
national evidence-based public sector policies and private sector enterprises. Such collaboration
networks also can provide the stimulus for changes in national government policies,
improvements in district government service delivery, improved private firm production
decisions, and closer links between university research and local and national development.
HENRI partners, for example, could continue to encourage increased collaboration with public
and private entities (e.g., district health or agriculture offices, health and nutrition firms), either
as associate non-paying partners or as equal partners willing to contribute tangibly to participate.
This would help sustain HENRI outcomes by creating a broader network of professionals willing
to learn from and apply HENRI’s advanced data analysis approaches, thus better informing and
strengthening public health research and the delivery of public health services.
TPC partners, on the other hand, could consider establishing research advisory groups, which
offer the potential for Indonesian universities to engage more actively with the private sector
(e.g., pharmaceutical companies) and government ministries (e.g., MoA) in identifying and
supporting applied research priorities of importance to the partners, their local communities,
and diverse public/private organizations. Universities able to show the benefits associated with
community-linked applied research are likely to have greater success with such collaborations.
2. US-Indonesia university partnership subcontracts between partners should reflect partnership
objectives, partner institutional capacities and partnership roles, prior Indonesian partner
relationships (and perceptions thereof), and other factors likely to influence the sustainability of
partnership programs and contribute to longer term partner institutional capacity development.
In the TPC partnership, both IPB and TAMUS viewed IPB as the Indonesian partner responsible
for effective partner collaboration and communication. However, the signing of direct
subcontracts between TAMUS and each of the three Indonesian partners led partners to be
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uncertain about partnership leadership and advisory responsibilities. UNUD and UNSRAT
subcontracts with IPB, not TAMUS, might have improved collaboration and communication.
The HENRI partnership, on the other hand, used a mixed subcontract approach in which HSPH
had subcontracts with HKI and SEAMEO RECFON-UI, while the latter (because of Harvard’s
subcontract fee charges) had subcontracts with UNAND and SID within its HSPH subcontract.
However, this approach also led to Indonesian partners’ uncertainty about their respective
relationships with Harvard and each other. Perhaps all HENRI subcontracts should have been
with Harvard (had its subcontract fees been negotiable) or through one Indonesian partner
whose in-country leadership role was acknowledged and accepted by all Indonesian partners.
3. In multi-institution US-Indonesia university partnerships led by a US university, the US partner
should ensure that in-country, on-the-ground management responsibilities are carried out by an
experienced project manager associated with a strong partner institution and that both the
project manager and the lead Indonesian partner have the respect of other partners, the
authority within the partnership, and the human resources to provide unambiguous leadership.
Partners should provide such project managers with the clear guidance needed to deliver timely
technical assistance in training, research, outreach, and other capacity building areas. In this way,
partnership outcomes can be better sustained when the US-Indonesia partnership funding ends
and the lead US university is no longer involved. To further improve program sustainability and
institutional capacity, the partnership needs a project implementation plan that reflects the
capacity and commitment of each partner to implement programs in the partnership timeframe.
TPC PARTNERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS
1. In exploring future funding possibilities, the TPC partners, individually and collectively, should
focus more on program sustainability than on partnership sustainability. It also is important that
each partner think about program sustainability both in terms of the TPC partners as a group
and in terms of its own institution (perhaps in collaboration with different partners).
2. Future US-Indonesia university research partnerships should provide opportunities for
Indonesian partners, rather than their US partners, to lead partnerships and have unambiguous
leadership roles relative to those of US partners. Future partnerships also should provide each
Indonesian partner with meaningful opportunities to lead selected multi-partner activities,
including outreach to groups with interests in partnership outcomes and impacts and to non-
TPC universities that want to strengthen their underutilized plant instruction, research, and
outreach. Indonesian partner institutional capacity will not improve without such opportunities.
Based on their close, long-term collaboration, TAMUS and IPB agreed that IPB was capable of
leading the TPC partnership, and TAMUS expected IPB to coordinate Indonesian partner
activity. However, the existence of TAMUS subcontracts directly with each Indonesian partner
led to ambiguity in IPB’s role relative to TAMUS and to UNUD and UNSRAT. The primary TPC
role of UNUD and UNSRAT was to share data (e.g., submit quarterly reports to TAMUS on the
extent to which TPC indicators had been achieved). If UNUD and UNSRAT had had clearer
roles that also involved working with partners, improved collaboration and communication
among Indonesian partners in the achievement of TPC objectives would likely have resulted.
3. To help it achieve long-term TPC program sustainability and enhanced institutional capacity,
a. each Indonesian TPC partner should encourage and support broader participation of its
lecturers, researchers, community trainers, and other partnership participants in the
partner’s curriculum enrichment, applied research, community outreach, and
commercialization activities focusing on local underutilized plants and plant products; and
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b. all three Indonesian TPC partners should jointly encourage and support more frequent and
more effective multi-partner collaborations in curriculum enrichment, applied research,
community outreach, and commercialization activities focusing on such topics.
4. In the TPC third year and beyond, its partners should explore alternative approaches to sustain
TPC programs and outcomes; these approaches might include one or more of the following:
a. give highest priority to strengthening each Indonesian partner’s community education,
training, and outreach, which have received inadequate attention thus far but are the
foundation for successful and sustainable commercialization and entrepreneurship;
b. focus on the impacts of partner community education and commercialization, not simply on
participant, training, product, or other “counts”; and
c. focus on the dissemination of each partner’s TPC outcomes and impacts (e.g., research
results, teaching modules, GAPs, community training manuals, product certifications) within
the partner university and also with TPC and non-TPC universities, government offices,
business firms, and NGOs in Indonesia with interests in plant product benefits and uses.
5. The TPC Indonesian partners should continue to enhance collaboration with formal or informal
networks important to building underutilized plant research capacity in Indonesia, including:
a. Indonesian universities and institutes having the potential for designing, conducting, and
applying plant research consistent with international standards and methods;
b. Indonesian ministries and agencies whose responsibilities relate to the governmental
contexts within which university plant research is funded, conducted, and used; and
c. International plant researchers whose interests are similar to those of partner faculties and
who understand Indonesian university research contexts, cultures, and capacities.
HENRI PARTNERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS

These recommended HENRI partnership actions and adjustments assume that USAID/Indonesia will
approve the no-cost extension for the HENRI Cooperative Agreement requested by the HSPH:
1. Any funded extension of the HENRI Cooperative Agreement should be conditional upon the
project being able to achieve its objectives, especially project activities involving clearly
measurable deliverables like those in the training, lesson planning and publications components.
The no-cost extension requested by the HSPH and its HENRI partners would provide the time
needed to show that the current HENRI approach can actually achieve the implementation plan.
2. USAID/Indonesia should hold the HSPH more accountable for ensuring that all HENRI partners
comply with the Cooperative Agreement’s requirement that the HENRI project implementation
plan include well-designed monitoring and evaluation components, clearly defined program
management deliverables (e.g., annual and quarterly reports), and a record of all project
activities (e.g., workshops, seminars, and conferences involving beneficiaries). This may help
ensure that HENRI partners carry out their subcontract obligations with SEAMEO RECON-UI
or the HSPH in a timely manner to provide a clearer and more comprehensive record of each
partner institution’s achievements.
3. HENRI institutional partners should carry out a joint partnership review of progress made to
date to revise, if necessary, the ambitious results in HENRI’s implementation plan and to
reallocate the remaining HENRI funding to achieve the revised results within the extended
award period. For example, a revised plan may need to reduce the number of publications to
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reflect HENRI’s actual publications performance to date, since three years is not enough time to
achieve the writing and publications objectives cited in the initial HENRI work plan.
4. HENRI should give more attention to building the institutional and research capacities within
weaker partner institutions by setting aside some of the remaining HENRI funding to implement
a program for remedial training in English language and statistical skills. Such training may be
needed beyond the extended period of the HENRI Cooperative Agreement.
5. Harvard’s inability to place an in situ HENRI project field manager/coordinator in Indonesia may
have prevented the partnership from dealing with coordination and management problems. An
in situ Harvard presence might have lessened delays in HENRI’s ability to recognize and respond
to partner problems slowing down the achievement of results, for example. In the future, multi-
partner U.S.-Indonesia partnerships like HENRI should consider including the presence of a
long-term field manager/coordinator in their budgets. (The Columbia University-led University
Partnership (UP) establishing a Center for Child Protection at UI may be a model to follow.)
6. Successful elements of the HENRI partnership experience (e.g., the publications mentoring
process; the intra-faculty model for sharing data analyses and research; and the international
networking experience) should be more strongly emphasized during the final year of the HENRI
Cooperative Agreement. HENRI should identify and record its more notable successes and
share them with participants during strategically organized seminars and conferences involving
public health researchers from national and international public and private sectors.
A LOOK AHEAD
Institutional Capacity Building and Research Development through Partnerships
In this assignment, the team focused on the objectives of institutional capacity building and institutional
research development in designing its interview guides and other research instruments (see Annex F
through Annex J) and conducting site visits, interviews, and other discussions. This report emphasizes
these objectives in the discussions of each partnership relative to each of the five evaluation questions.
To illustrate, in addressing Evaluation Question #1: Partnership Objectives Achieved, the team focused
on two types of outcomes: Participants’ Skills and Knowledge and Institutional Capacity Building. Each of
the 28 TPC or HENRI partnership findings relative to Evaluation Question #1 relate to institutional
capacity building and/or institutional research development. Likewise, in addressing Evaluation Question
#2: Partnership Interventions and Practices, the team focused primarily on US interventions that
improved Indonesian partner institutional capacity and/or the quality of research and research-related
curriculum enhancement. A similar pattern exists for findings relative to the other three questions.
The longer term objectives of US-Indonesia partnerships should not vary – these should be institutional
capacity building and institutional research development. But the institutions involved in these
partnerships may vary, just as partnerships may take different approaches to achieve these longer term
objectives. For example, UP partnerships #1 (CCP) and #2 (IBRC) each created an intermediary
organization – a center – through which the partners worked collaboratively in the near term to foster
longer term institutional capacity development and research development in each Indonesian partner
university. In contrast, neither UP partnerships #3 (TPC) nor #4 (HENRI) created a center as the focal
point of partnership programs; rather, each sought to build partner capacity through collaboration in
curriculum enrichment, research, and outreach. Thus, the programs of partnerships #3 and #4, not
centers, are envisioned as the foundation for strengthened institutional and research capacity.
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Future of USAID US-Indonesia University Partnership Programs

Starting with its August 2009 Annual Program Statement (APS) 09-014 (“Supporting Universities to
Partner across the Pacific”), USAID/Indonesia has emphasized the importance of linking US and
Indonesia universities with priority development challenges in Indonesia. In particular, the University
Partnerships (UP) program through which the TPC and HENRI partnerships were funded in late 2010 is
“directed at helping to increase the capacity and contributions of Indonesian institutions of higher
education to address longer term sustainable development priorities in Indonesia” (2009 APS, pp. 4-5).
In creating the UP program, USAID/Indonesia recognized that achieving these longer term objectives
would more likely occur if “seed” funding were provided to the partnerships. Indeed, through critically
important USAID/Indonesia assistance, the TPC and HENRI partnerships have taken steps toward
institutional capacity building and institutional research development. While the TPC partnership
followed more than a decade of prior collaboration among its US and Indonesian partners and is
achieving its many objectives and indicators (albeit somewhat unevenly among partners), the HENRI
partnership also is starting to build a much-needed foundation for public health research, curriculum
enrichment, and training of professionals.
While the USAID/Indonesia UP program has been important in fostering Indonesian university capacity
development through US-Indonesia university partnerships, the team’s evaluation of the TPC and HENRI
partnerships leads it to suggest a complementary approach to US-Indonesia partnerships that could
further help Indonesian universities address longer term sustainable development priorities in Indonesia.
An important lesson learned by TPC and HENRI partners is that people are the key to program
sustainability; each partnership regretted that research-related reciprocal exchanges were not possible
due to funding limitations. At the same time, DIKTI directorates (e.g., Directorate for Research and
Community Service, Directorate for Human Resources Development) have substantial resources to
support short-term research and study abroad for Indonesian university lecturers and researchers and
to support research on Indonesian development priorities (e.g., health, food security).
Thus, the team recommends that USAID/Indonesia explore ways to partner with MoEC/DIKTI
directorates in developing a new jointly funded and jointly administered program of US-Indonesia
university research partnerships led by Indonesian universities and including significant support for
reciprocal research/lecturer exchanges between the Indonesian and US partners. The US Department of
Education’s international consortia partnership programs jointly funded by and administered with Brazil,
Canada and Mexico, and the European Union may offer useful examples of such a program.
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ANNEX A. Scope of Work

Background and Project
USAID launched the University Partnerships (UP) program in December 2009 to help improve the quality and
relevance of higher education in Indonesia. Establishing partnerships between the U.S. universities and the
Indonesian universities serves as an important vehicle to leverage U.S. universities’ expertise to strengthen
research and teaching capacity of Indonesian institutions. The UP program is implemented through
announcements via the Annual Program Statement (APS) mechanism, with each partnership forming a separate
cooperative agreement. The UP Partnership priority areas include public health, education, environmental
protection/climate change, economic growth, and agriculture. To date, USAID has awarded a total of eleven
partnerships between U.S. universities and Indonesian universities with the U.S. University as the lead and the
Indonesian universities as the sub-awardee(s). The estimated amount of each of the three-year UP awards is
from $600,000 to $1,000,000.
This Scope of Work relates to the tasks associated with the evaluation of the following two University
Partnerships:
3) Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum to help sustain resources and develop local markets
4) Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI) - Enhancing public health training
The purposes of this evaluation are to: 1) assess the extent of the knowledge and skills transfer that has
occurred between the lead U.S. university and the Indonesian university as the sub-awardee; 2) determine the
extent or level of capacity building that has taken place within the partnerships; 3) assess the effectiveness of the
project interventions between the partnerships in relation to improve the teaching and research services; 4)
assess whether or not the projects are sustainable and have achieved the project objectives; 5) obtain lessons
learned from the existing partnerships that can be applied to the future direction of the UP program; and 6)
demonstrate how the institutions have achieved measurable improvements in the quality and relevance of their
teaching and research service.
Evaluation Questions
USAID/Indonesia identified several key questions to be addressed in this evaluation:
1. What is the specific knowledge and skills and the institutional capacity building that have occurred as a result
of the partnership between the U.S. University and the Indonesian University?
2. What were the project interventions that were effective between the participating universities toward
improving the quality of the research service, teaching, and curriculum development?
3. What unintended results or spillover have occurred toward achieving USAID’s Education Strategy in IR 2.2
Strengthened Management of Targeted Higher Education institutions, and I.R. 2.3 Improved Teaching,
Research, and Service at Targeted University Departments under the partnership?
4. What are the lessons learned from the partnership that may be replicated in future programs based on its
sustainability in curriculum development, research service, publications, public/private partnerships, and
possibilities for engagement with other partners (government, NGO, or private sector) at the end of the
award?
5. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the partnership between the U.S. University and the Indonesian
university?
The following research and analysis tasks will be completed to address these evaluation questions:
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Literature and Documentation Review

The evaluators will review a wide range of reports cited in the RFTOP, such as the two partnerships’ Work
Plans, Performance Management Plans, and quarterly and financial reports, as well as the USAID/JBS Best
Practices for AME Higher Education Partnerships study and other documents listed in Section C of this Scope.
The evaluation will draw on the analytical methodology already established and successfully used in this AME
review of best practices, as well as on the fall 2012 evaluation of the first two University Partnerships. Careful
review will provide key descriptive information about the two partnerships (e.g., area of focus, award dates and
amount, and cost sharing), as well as information critical for effective partnership practices and measurable
outcomes. Reports will be reviewed for gender implications and outcomes.
Site Visits and Interview Instruments

Using the proposed evaluation framework, site visits at the Indonesian institutions will allow the evaluation team
to collect as much information as is available on the practices and outcomes of the two university partnerships
being evaluated. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted at the partnership sites. The interview
instruments will include key questions to be posed to administrators, faculty, students and other stakeholders.
In addition, these interviews will be used to cross-check the information provided in the two partnerships’
annual and other reports, previous evaluations, and related documents.
Discussions with U.S. Partners

Virtual discussions will be conducted with key persons at U.S. universities who have directly participated in
these partnerships. The discussions will examine the respondents’ experiences in creating these partnerships,
managing and coordinating their implementation, and assessing their outcomes.
Lessons Learned
The findings of the above research will be used in the analysis of lessons learned from the two partnerships
being evaluated, and in making recommendations on their relevance to the UP program. These findings will be
organized and analyzed in comparison to the best practices and outcome measures in the AME study, with
specific attention given to anticipated and unanticipated outcomes, sustainability, and strengths and weaknesses.
The following timeline for the evaluation presents the basic flow of activities which will be solidified in the work
plan.
ACTIVITY TIME FRAME

The Evaluation Team reviews documents; begins development of May 17-June 2
research instruments; has initial discussions with U.S. university
partners; travels to Indonesia.
The Evaluation Team holds initial briefings with USAID June 3-8
higher education team, AORs, and technical offices;
reviews documents; develops research instruments;
submits draft Work Plan/Evaluation Design to USAID;
schedules and conducts initial meetings with Indonesian
university partners; USAID approves Work
Plan/Evaluation Design
The Evaluation Team meets with Indonesian university
partners and other relevant stakeholders; conducts site June 9-21
visits and interviews; collects partnership data and
documents partnership results
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The Evaluation Team completes its site visits and interviews; June 22-28
analyses field work data; holds preliminary briefing on site visit
findings with USAID higher education team.
The Evaluation Team returns to U.S.; completes analyses of field June 29-July 19
work data; writes and submits preliminary draft of final report;
incorporates USAID feedback into writing of the final report;
submits final report within 10 days of receipt of Mission
feedback.
Deliverables
The contractor shall submit the following deliverables:
Work Plan and Evaluation Design

A Work Plan and Evaluation Design for the evaluation shall be completed according to the evaluation timeline
and presented to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The evaluation design will include a detailed
evaluation design matrix (including the key questions, the methods and data sources used to address each
question), draft questionnaires and other data collection instruments, and known imitations to the evaluation
design. The final design requires COR approval. The work plan will include the anticipated schedule and logistical
arrangements and delineate the roles and responsibilities of members of the evaluation team.
Oral Briefings
The evaluation team shall debrief with the USAID Higher Education team and other relevant technical teams
upon arrival in Jakarta and with other relevant technical teams. The evaluation team will also provide an oral
briefing of its preliminary findings to the USAID Higher Education team, relevant USAID technical offices, and
Agreement Officer’s Representatives (AORs) and Alternates of the university partnership awards in advance of
its departure from Indonesia.
Final Report
The Final Report shall be submitted to the COR in electronic form within 10 days following receipt of
comments from USAID. The report shall include an executive summary and is not to exceed 30 pages
(excluding appendices). The executive summary should be 3-5 pages in length and summarize the purpose,
background of the project being evaluated, main evaluation questions, methods, findings, conclusions, and
recommendations and lessons learned (if applicable). The report shall follow USAID branding procedures.
An acceptable report will meet the following requirements per USAID policy (please see: the USAID Evaluation
Policy):
a) The evaluation report should represent a thoughtful, well-researched and well organized effort to objectively
evaluate what worked in the project, what did not and why.
b) The evaluation report should address all evaluation questions included in the scope of work.
c) The evaluation report should include the scope of work as an Annex. All modifications to the scope of work,
whether in technical requirements, evaluation questions, evaluation team composition, methodology or timeline
shall be agreed upon in writing by the USAID Mission Program Officer.
d) Evaluation methodology shall be explained in detail and all tools used in conducting the evaluation such as
questionnaires, checklists and discussion guides will be included in an Annex to the final report.
e) Evaluation findings will assess outcomes and impact using gender disaggregated data.
f) Limitations to the evaluation shall be disclosed in the report, with particular attention to the limitations
associated with the evaluation methodology (selection bias, recall bias, unobservable differences between
comparator groups, etc.).
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g) Evaluation findings should be presented as analyzed facts, evidence and data and not based on anecdotes,
hearsay or the compilation of people’s opinions.
h) Findings should be specific, concise and supported by strong quantitative or qualitative evidence.
i) Sources of information need to be properly identified and listed in an Annex, including a list of all individuals
interviewed.
j) Recommendations need to be supported by a specific set of findings.
k) Recommendations should be action-oriented, practical and specific, with defined responsibility for the action.
Key Documents for Review

Key USAID Partnership Documents, including:
 Cooperative agreements with each of the two partnerships to be evaluated
 Implementing partner Work Plans and Performance Management Plans (PMPs) for each partnership
 Quarterly reports, annual reports, and financial reports submitted by each partnership
 Manuals and research and training materials developed by each partnership
“Best Practices for USAID International Higher Education Institutional Partnerships:

Asia and Middle East Regions, Volume I and Volume II” – GEM II BPA, Aguirre
Division of JBS International, Inc., August 2011
“Assessment of Higher Education Institutional Capacity in Selected Geographic and

Subject Areas” – GEM II BPA, Aguirre Division of JBS International, Inc., April 2009
The World Bank, “Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for
Growth in East Asia,” 2012. See: http://site resources.worldbank.org/East Asia Pacific
Ext/Resources; 226300-1279680449418/7267211-1318449387306/EAP_higher_education_full report.pdf
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ANNEX B. Work Plan and Calendar
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

No. TASKS AND ACTIVITIES PLACE
30 June‐
21 May ‐1 June 2‐8 June 9‐15 June 16‐22 June 23‐29 June
12 July
1 Task 1: Planning
2 a) Documents and Reports
Review project proposal, scope of
3 USA
work, task order.
Determine project team’s
4 USA
responsibilities, tasks, and activities.
Review University Partnership‐related
documents and reports provided by
5 USA
USAID/Indonesia and other relevant
parties.
Arrange the schedules and logistics
for TPC (SEAFAST/IPB‐Bogor, UNUD‐
Denpasar, UNSRAT‐Manado) and
6 HENRI (SEAMEO REFCON‐Jakarta, Jakarta
UNRAM‐Mataram, UNAND‐Padang,
SID‐Mataram, HKI/Indonesia‐Jakarta)
visits and interviews.
b) Stakeholder Interviews and
7
Meetings
Meet with USAID/Indonesia
8 Education Office staff to review Jakarta
project focus and outputs.
Meet with USAID/Indonesia staff
AORs coordinating the TPC and HENRI
9 Jakarta
partnerships for briefings on these
partnerships.
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30 June‐
12 July
Develop extensive program of visits
with lecturers, researchers, students,
10 and other stakeholders of Jakarta
partnerships TPC and HENRI at all
partner institutions.
11 c) Work Plan for USAID/Indonesia
Obtain agreement with
12 USAID/Indonesia Education Office Jakarta
staff on work plan dates.
Finalize travel plans for the UP
13 evaluation team to Bogor, Denpasar, Jakarta
Mataram, Manado, and Padang.
Draft project work plan, including key
14 tasks and activities, calendar, travel, Jakarta
etc.
Task 2: Developing an Understanding
15 of TPC Implementation, Results, and
Sustainability

Conduct in‐depth interviews/small
group discussions with TPC
management and stakeholders,
including researchers, trainers, Bogor; Gunung
16
curriculum developers, students, and Leutik
farmers, at IPB SEAFAST Center
(Bogor) and TPC community field site
(Gunung Leutik).
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30 June‐
12 July
Conduct in‐depth interviews
regarding the TPC and HENRI
17 partnerships with relevant Jakarta
government and other stakeholders
(e.g., DIKTI officials).
stakeholders, including researchers,
18 Denpasar
trainers, curriculum developers,
students, and farmers, at UNUD
(Denpasar).
stakeholders, including researchers,
19 Manado
trainers, curriculum developers,
students, and farmers, at UNSRAT
(Manado).
Task 3: Developing an Understanding
20 of HENRI Implementation, Results,
and Sustainability
Conduct in‐depth interview/small
group discussion with HENRI
21 management and staff at Helen Keller Jakarta
International/Indonesia

(HKI/Indonesia) (Jakarta).

group discussions with HENRI
22 stakeholders, including senior Jakarta
managers, lecturers, researchers, and

students, at UNAND (Padang).
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30 June‐
12 July
stakeholders, including senior
23 managers, lecturers, researchers, and Mataram
students, at UNRAM (Mataram) and
SUMMIT Institute of Development
(SID) (Mataram).
management and stakeholders,
24 including senior managers, lecturers, Padang
researchers, data base specialists,
and students, at SEAMEO RECFON –
UI (Jakarta).
Task 4: Developing
25 Recommendations for Possible
USAID/Indonesia Action
Develop findings, conclusions, and
recommendations regarding the TPC
26 Jakarta; USA
partnership's overall long‐term
sustainability.
Develop findings, conclusions, and
recommendations regarding the
27 Jakarta; USA
HENRI partnership's overall long‐term
sustainability.
Hold debriefing with USAID/Indonesia
28 Education Office staff on preliminary Jakarta
findings and conclusions (27 June).
29 Draft project report text and annexes. Jakarta; USA
30 Reports
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30 June‐
12 July
Draft Work Plan to USAID/Indonesia Jakarta
31
(6 June).
Partial Draft Final Report to USA
32
USAID/Indonesia (5 July).
Draft Final Report to USAID/Indonesia USA
33 (12 July).

Note: 6 June 2013 (Thursday) is a national
holiday

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ANNEX C. Individuals Interviewed

UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS EVALUATION – PARTNERSHIPS #3 AND #4
June 2013
Cellphone /
No Name F/M Title / Function Partnership / Institution Email Office Phone
Numbers
May 29, 2013
TPC Partnership Co-Principal
Investigator
Dr. Tim Davis TPC 979 847 5887;
Prof., Dept. of Horticultural
1 (phone M Texas A&M University [email protected] 979 862 2769;
Sciences; Senior Scientist/Regional
interview) (BI/TAMU) 979 690 5925
Director for Asia, Borlaug
Institute for Intl. Agriculture (BI)
June 3, 2013
USAID/Indonesia Education
2 Cecilia Sun F Senior Higher Education Advisor [email protected] 021-343 59432
Office
Margaret K. USAID/Indonesia Education
3 F Director [email protected] 021-343 59325
Sancho Office
4 Remy Rohadian M Education Specialist [email protected] 021-343 59405
Office
5 Jipy Priscillia F Program Development Specialist [email protected]
Office
USAID/Indonesia Education 021-353 59836;
6 Rizki Atina F Education Staff [email protected]
Office 0811 1588 824
Deputy Director; MCH Team
7 Rachel Cintron F USAID/Indonesia Health Office [email protected] 021-343 59411
Leader
Antonious P. Y. USAID/Indonesia Environment
8 M Program Management Specialist [email protected] 021-343 59393
Djogo Office
June 5, 2013
HENRI Partnership Co-Principal HENRI
Stephan Solat, 021-719 9163;
9 M Investigator Helen Keller [email protected]
MCommH 0811 1626 700
Country Director International/Indonesia
HENRI
10 Dr. Roy Tjiong M Senior Adviser Helen Keller [email protected] 021-719 9163
International/Indonesia
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Cellphone /
Numbers
HENRI 021-719 9163
[email protected];
11 Prateek Gupta M Monitoring & Evaluation Manager Helen Keller (ext 228);
[email protected]
International/Indonesia 0811 8164 786
HENRI 021-719 9163
Deputy Country Director of
12 Lily Natalia F Helen Keller [email protected] (ext 101);
Finance, HR & Operations
International/Indonesia 0816 1988 901
Directorate General of Higher
Prof. Agus
Director for Research and Education (DIKTI), Ministry of 021-579 46042;
13 Subekti, M.Sc., M [email protected]
Community Service Education and Culture, Republic 0812 3491 455
Ph.D.
of Indonesia
June 7, 2013
Investigator
Prof. Dr. Director, Southeast Asian Food
TPC IPB 0251-862 9903;
14 Purwiyatno M and Agricultural Science and [email protected]
(Institut Pertanian Bogor) 0811 1103 51
Hariyadi Technology (SEAFAST) Center;
Professor, Dept. of Food Science
and Technology
Executive Secretary, IPB SEAFAST 0251-862 9903 /
Prof. Dr. Nuri TPC IPB [email protected];
15 F Center; Professor, Dept. of Food 862 9535;
Andarwulan (Institut Pertanian Bogor) [email protected]
Science and Technology 0811 1189 83
Prof. Ir. Lilis Program Manager, IPB SEAFAST 0251-862 9903 /
TPC IPB
16 Nuraida, MSc., F Center; Professor, Dept. of Food [email protected] 862 9535;
(Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Ph.D. Science and Technology 0811 1185 83
TPC Standards and Guidelines TPC IPB
17 Dian Herawati F
Writer (Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Strisno TPC Standards and Guidelines TPC IPB
18 F
Leoswara Writer (Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Ir. Sutrisno Lecturer and Community TPC IPB 0251-862 6725;
19 M [email protected]
Koswara, MSi. Educator, SEAFAST Center (Institut Pertanian Bogor) 0813 1051 5733
Food Chemistry Division,
Dr. Nancy TPC IPB [email protected]; 0251-862 6725;
20 F Lecturer, Dept. of Food Science
Dewi Yuliana (Institut Pertanian Bogor) [email protected]; 0821 2220 7265
and Technology
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Cellphone /
Numbers
IPB Student and TPC Trainer for
Mohamad Sabih TPC IPB 0251-862 9903;
21 M Community Development, Dept. [email protected]
Maimun (Institut Pertanian Bogor) 0856 9107 0391
of Food Science and Technology
IPB Student and TPC Trainer for
TPC IPB 0251-862 9903;
22 Ajie Pambudi M Community Development, Dept. [email protected]
(Institut Pertanian Bogor) 0815 4108 6132
of Food Science and Technology
June 10, 2013
Prof. dr. Nur
HENRI Partnership Co-Principal
Indrawaty HENRI UNAND [email protected]; 0751-38613;
23 F Investigator
Liputo, M.Sc., (Universitas Andalas) [email protected] 0812 6768 280
Dean of Public Health Faculty
Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Vice Rector for Planning, HENRI UNAND [email protected]; 0751-733 35;
24 M
Helmi, M.Sc. Development, and Cooperation (Universitas Andalas) [email protected] 0812 6604 703
Dr. dr. Masrul, Dean of Medicine Faculty; Clinical HENRI UNAND [email protected]; 0751-317 46;
25 M
M.Sc., SpGK Nutrition and Epidemiologist (Universitas Andalas) [email protected] 0813 6315 2961
Prof. Rizanda Public Health Study Program, [email protected];
HENRI UNAND 0751-716 86;
26 Machmud, MD, F Public Health Faculty; 2012 HENRI [email protected];
(Universitas Andalas) 0812 6623 467
MPH, Dr.PH Harvard Summer Scholar [email protected]
Head of Research and
Denas Symond, HENRI UNAND [email protected]; 0751-386 13;
27 M Development Unit, Public Health
MCN (Universitas Andalas) [email protected] 0813 6332 6808
Faculty
Suryati, S.Pd, HENRI UNAND 0751-386 13;
28 F Lecturer in Public Health Faculty [email protected]
M. KesKons. (Universitas Andalas) 0812 6777 7840
June 11, 2013
Defriman Lecturer in Public Health Faculty;
29 Djafri, SKM, M 2012 HENRI Harvard Summer [email protected]
MKM Scholar
Idral
30 Purnakarya, M Lecturer in Public Health Faculty [email protected]
SKM, MKM
Prof. Dr. dr. Head of Division I Nutrition;
31 Delmi Sulastri, F HENRI Participant in ToT on Data [email protected]
M.Sc, SpGK Analysis in SEAMEO RECFON
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Cellphone /
Numbers
HENRI UNAND
Afriyenti, SKM, Head of Health Data and
(Universitas Andalas) 0752-924 18;
32 MKM F Information Unit, Health [email protected]
Lima Puluh Kota District 0813 6347 3304
(FG14) Department
Government
dr. H. Prima HENRI UNAND
Nofeki Syahrir, (Universitas Andalas)
33 M Head of Health Department [email protected] 0813 7472 7111
MM Lima Puluh Kota District
(FG1) Government
HENRI UNAND
Armacitra Health Data and Information Unit,
34 F (Universitas Andalas) [email protected] 0852 4550 0582
(FG1) Health Department
Agam District Government
HENRI UNAND
Henry Waluyo Head of Program Control Unit, (Universitas Andalas) 0752-796 688;
35 M [email protected]
(FG1) Health Department Payakumbuh District 0823 6434 5425
Government
HENRI UNAND
Vivi Susanti (Universitas Andalas)
36 F Staff, Health Department [email protected] 0823 8863 2183
(FG1) Payakumbuh District
Government
June 13, 2013
Dr. M. Husni HENRI UNRAM
37 M Investigator Lecturer in [email protected] 0812 3783 8005
Muadz (Universitas Mataram)
Faculty of Agriculture
HENRI Partnership Co-Principal HENRI SID mandri.apriatni@sid-
38 Mandri Apriatni F Investigator (SUMMIT Institute of indonesia.org; 0812 3628 6005
Chief Executive Officer, SID Development) [email protected]
Investigator
Prof. Dr.
Professor of Food and 0361-701 801 /
Nyoman TPC UNUD
39 M Agroindustrial Technology; Head [email protected] 701 803;
Semadi Antara, (Universitas Udayana)
of Laboratory of Bio-Industry; 0812 3922 707
Ph.D.
Head of Food Security Research
Center
4
Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
HENRI SID
Benyamin IT Director and IT Support for
40 M (SUMMIT Institute of [email protected] 0812 3752 828
Harefa HENRI
Development)
Researcher at Center for
HENRI UNRAM [email protected];
41 Anwar Fachry M Population and Development 0818 5425 36
(Universitas Mataram) [email protected]
Studies; HENRI Facilitator
HENRI SID
Susy K.
42 F Program Director (SUMMIT Institute of [email protected] 0812 8828 3367
Sebayang
Development), Mataram
Lecturer in Faculty of Agricultural
Dr. I Wayan TPC UNUD 0361-255 316;
43 M Technology; Secretary of Food [email protected]
Widia (Universitas Udayana) 0813 3282 8930
Security Research Center
Dr. Ida Bagus TPC UNUD 0361-701 801;
44 M Senior Lecturer and Researcher [email protected]
Wayan Gunam (Universitas Udayana) 0821 4724 6756;
I Ketut Head, Research Center and TPC UNUD
45 M [email protected] 0812 8409 393
Satriawan Community Service (Universitas Udayana)
Ni Luh TPC UNUD
46 F Lecturer in Biology (Researcher) [email protected] 0813 3789 1231
Watiningsih (Universitas Udayana)
Ni Made Lecturer in Faculty of Agricultural TPC UNUD
47 F [email protected] 0817 9740 367
Wartini Technology (Universitas Udayana)
I Nengah Lecturer in Faculty of Agricultural TPC UNUD
Kencana P. Technology (Universitas Udayana)
P.K. Diah TPC UNUD
49 F Head of Bamboo Research Center [email protected] 0812 4651 513
Kencana (Universitas Udayana)
Ida Ayu Ary
Student of Agricultural TPC UNUD
50 Widnyani F [email protected] 0853 3348 8366
Technology Faculty (Universitas Udayana)
(FG25)
Richard
Student of Agricultural TPC UNUD [email protected]
51 Howard P. M 0831 1414 5268
Technology Faculty (Universitas Udayana) m
(FG2)
52 I Wayan M Student of Agricultural TPC UNUD [email protected] 0857 3723 7824
5
Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
Wisma P. Technology Faculty (Universitas Udayana)
(FG2)
Ayu Putu
53 Sarasdewi F [email protected] 0819 1622 7719
(FG2)
I G.A. Ananda
54 Dama Sastri F [email protected] 0857 3701 1194
(FG2)
Eni Juniantari Student of Agricultural TPC UNUD
55 F [email protected] 87860615210
(FG2) Technology Faculty (Universitas Udayana)
Dwi Ayu Kirani
Paramita Student of Agricultural TPC UNUD [email protected]
56 F 0819 3306 6600
(FG2) Technology Faculty (Universitas Udayana) om
Y. Teken TPC UNUD

57 M Bamboo Farmer (Pupuan, Bali) 0857 9265 9026
(FG36) (Universitas Udayana)
I Komang Arya
TPC UNUD
58 Wijaya M Bamboo Farmer (Pupuan, Bali) 0819 9926 4748
(Universitas Udayana)
(FG3)
I Made Widra TPC UNUD
59 M Bamboo Farmer (Pupuan, Bali)
Ngh. Toya TPC UNUD
60 M Bamboo Farmer (Pupuan, Bali)
I Ketut Suena Bamboo Farmer (Kerta Payangan, TPC UNUD
61 M 0813 3772 4913
(FG3) Bali) (Universitas Udayana)
I Wayan Jaten Bamboo Farmer (Kerta Payangan, TPC UNUD
62 M
I Made Pusna Bamboo Farmer (Kerta Payangan, TPC UNUD
63 M
I Wayan
Bamboo Farmer (Kerta Payangan, TPC UNUD
64 Suniarsa M 0878 6106 3196
Bali) (Universitas Udayana)
(FG3)
6
Focus Group
58
Cellphone /
Numbers
I Made
Bamboo Farmer (Kerta Payangan, TPC UNUD
65 Witarjana M [email protected] 0819 3623 1100
Bali) (Universitas Udayana)
(FG3)
June 14, 2013
Prof. Ir. H. M. 0370-621 435;
HENRI UNRAM
66 Sarjan, M. Agr. M Dean of Agriculture Faculty [email protected] 0818 0370 0112;
(Universitas Mataram)
CP, Ph.D 0812 3705 297
Liana HENRI UNRAM [email protected]
67 F Lecturer in Agriculture Faculty 0821 4619 3080
Suryaningsih (Universitas Mataram) u; [email protected]
Dian Lestari Lecturer in Agriculture Faculty;
HENRI UNRAM
68 Miharja F HENRI Participant, Workshop on [email protected] 0818 3636 76
(FG47) Data Analysis
Nuning Lecturer in Agriculture Faculty;
HENRI UNRAM
69 Juniarsih F HENRI Participant, Workshop on 0878 6580 9307
(FG4) Data Analysis
Lecturer in Agriculture Faculty;
Karwati HENRI UNRAM
70 F HENRI Lesson Plan Development [email protected] 0817 5742 281
(FG4) (Universitas Mataram)
Team Member
Prof. Drs. I Vice Rector IV (Cooperation and TPC UNUD
71 M [email protected] 0361 704625
Made Suastra International Affairs) (Universitas Udayana)
Prof. Dr. Ida Head, Analytic Chemistry
TPC UNUD
72 Bagus Putra M Laboratory, Faculty of Agricultural
(Universitas Udayana)
Manuaba Technology
Nyoman Former Head, Analytic Chem. Lab, TPC UNUD
73 M
Nusada, M.Sc. Faculty of Agricultural Technology (Universitas Udayana)
June 17, 2013
Prof. Dr. Ir. TPC Partnership Co-Principal
TPC UNSRAT
74 Robert M Investigator [email protected] 0811 4371 31
(Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Molenaar Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture
Community Training Team in
Dr. Ir. Sandra TPC UNSRAT
75 F TPC; Lecturer in Faculty of [email protected] 0813 5636 5281
E. Pakasi, M (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Agriculture
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Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
Ir. Lana Lalujan, Research Team in TPC; TPC UNSRAT
MS Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Dr. G.S.S. Tatik Research Team in TPC; TPC UNSRAT
Djarkasi Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Curriculum Development Team in
TPC UNSRAT
78 Dr. Theo Lasut M TPC; Researcher/Lecturer in [email protected] 0812 8808 0677
Faculty of Agriculture
Research Team in TPC;
Ir. Erny Nurali, TPC UNSRAT
79 F Vice Dean for Collaboration, [email protected] 0852 5664 6969
MS (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture
Prof. Dr. Odi Research Team in TPC; TPC UNSRAT
R. Pinonton Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Curriculum Development Team in
Dr. Johny TPC UNSRAT
81 M TPC; Lecturer in Faculty of [email protected] 0812 4301 590
Tasirin (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Agriculture
Commercialization Team in TPC; TPC UNSRAT

82 Prof. Jen Tatuh M [email protected] 0813 4076 5318
Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Prof. Ir. Dantje

Entomologist; TPC UNSRAT [email protected],
83 T. Sembel, B M 0813 5680 9277
Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi) [email protected]
Agr Sc, Ph.D
Ir. Maya M. Commercialization Team in TPC, TPC UNSRAT
Ludong, MS Lecturer in Faculty of Agriculture (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Sendy Gigir TPC UNSRAT
85 F Student of Agriculture Faculty [email protected] 0852 4030 8523
(FG58) (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Melisa
TPC UNSRAT
86 Todingan F Student of Agriculture Faculty [email protected] 0821 9144 1992
(FG5)
Irene R. Terok TPC UNSRAT
87 F Student of Agriculture Faculty [email protected] 0852 5679 8285
(FG5) (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
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Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
Adenancy A.
Student of Forestry Study TPC UNSRAT
88 Montjai F [email protected] 0852 4102 7608
Program (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
(FG69)
Gracecia T. J.
Student of Forestry Study TPC UNSRAT
89 Antou F [email protected] 0852 5636 3627
Program (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
(FG6)
Ruth Polii Student of Forestry Study TPC UNSRAT
(FG6) Program (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Eurike V. Student of Forestry Study TPC UNSRAT
Panggalo (FG6) Program (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Fiqih V.
Student of Food Science and TPC UNSRAT
92 Albanjar F [email protected] 0852 5630 9885
Technology Department (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
(FG710)
Regina
93 Rumaratu F [email protected] 0823 4420 3530
(FG7)
Eklesia
94 Tomasoa F [email protected] 0852 5648 3733
(FG 7)
Falen Sandana Student of Food Science and TPC UNSRAT
(FG7) Technology Department (Universitas Sam Ratulangi)
Herwin
96 Manurung M [email protected] 0897 3766 560
(FG7)
June 19, 2013
Drupadi HS HENRI Partnership Co-Principal
HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI 021-319 30205 /
97 Dilon, MD, F Investigator [email protected]
(Universitas Indonesia) 391 3932
Ph.D Director of SEAMEO RECFON
021-319 30205 /
Rina Agustina, Deputy Director for Resource HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected]
98 F 391 3932
MD, Ph.D Management and Marketing (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected]
0818 9313 79
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Focus Group
10
Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
021-319 30205 /
Helda Khusun, Head of Degree Unit, Training HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected]
99 F 391 3932;
Ph.D Division (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected]
0812 8586 856
Former Information Resource & 021-319 30205/
Airin Roshita, HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected]
100 F Public Relation Manager; Present 391 3932;
Ph.D (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected]
Researcher 0812 8646 9696
Head of Consultancy and
Lina Rospita, Community Development Unit; HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected] 021-319 02950,
101 F
M.Sc 2012 HENRI Harvard Summer (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected] 0811 2871 0032
Scholar
021-319 30205/
Dewi Maryani, HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI
102 F Head of Accounting Unit [email protected] 391 3932;
SE (Universitas Indonesia)
0813 1126 8703
Ph.D Student, Lecturer in
Aria Kekalih,
Community Medicine HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected] 021-314 1066;
103 MD, MIT M
Department, Medical Faculty; 2013 (Universitas Indonesia)) @gmail.com 0812 9984 449
(FG811)
HENRI Harvard Summer Scholar
M.Sc Student in Universitas
Yori Novrianto HENRI UNAND
104 M Indonesia; HENRI Scholarship [email protected] 0813 7460 5537
(FG8) (Universitas Andalas)
Recipient for Master Degree
Luh Ade Ari
Ph.D Student in Medical Faculty,
Wiradnyani, HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI awiradnyani@seameo-
105 F Universitas Indonesia; 2013 0812 9539 124
M.Sc (Universitas Indonesia) recfon.org
HENRI Harvard Summer Scholar
(FG8)
Ph.D Student in Medical Faculty, HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI
N. Eka Dewi Universitas Indonesia; HENRI (Universitas Indonesia) 0818 3631 63,
106 F [email protected]
(FG8) Scholarship Recipient for Ph.D District Health Office, Central 0812 3688 7003
Degree Lombok,
HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI
M.Sc Student in Universitas
Seneng (Universitas Indonesia) 0823 1148 7375,
107 M Indonesia; HENRI Scholarship [email protected]
(FG8) District Health Office, West 0819 0713 3369
Recipient for Master Degree
Lombok,
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Focus Group
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Cellphone /
Numbers
Anna Vipta Lecturer, Department of Food and
HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI
Resti Nutrition Policy Division, IPB;
108 F (Universitas Indonesia); [email protected] 0856 1164 494
Mauludyani, SP, 2012 HENRI Harvard Summer
IPB (Institut Pertanian Bogor)
MSc Scholar
Aupa Suraga HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI
109 M IT Staff [email protected] 0812 8777 7994
Malik, ST (Universitas Indonesia)
June 20, 2013
Dean of Faculty of Medicine; 021-319 30371 /
Ratna Sitompul, HENRI UI [email protected]
110 F Former Director of SEAMEO 392 9651;
MD, Ph.D (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected]
RECFON 0811 8246 40
dr. Endang L. Head of Positive Deviance
HENRI UI 021-786 4442;
111 Achadi, MPH, F Resource Centre, Community [email protected]
(Universitas Indonesia) 0816 8610 29
Ph.D Health Faculty
Master of Science Candidate,
Azalea Cancer Epidemiology & HENRI Harvard School of Public [email protected] 0812 3814 722;
112 F
Ayuningtyas Prevention, Department of Health [email protected] 0819 3293 4075
Epidemiology
021-319 30205 /
Dr. Umi Deputy Director, Program; HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI [email protected]
113 F 391 3932;
Fahmida, M.Sc HENRI Training Manager (Universitas Indonesia) [email protected]
0817 6060 820
Lecturer; Research and jefebruhartanty@seameo-
Judhiastuty HENRI SEAMEO RECFON – UI 021-319 30205;
114 F Development Manager; Acting recfon.org
Februhartanty (Universitas Indonesia) 0812 9260 634
Deputy Director for Program. [email protected]
Nutrition and Public Health
K Aryastami, Consultant; Participant, HENRI HENRI Ministry of Health, 021-424 3314;
115 F [email protected]
MCN, Msc Data Analysis Training, SEAMEO Republic of Indonesia 0816 4856 094
RECFON
Prof. Dr. Anas Vice Rector for Research and TPC IPB
116 M [email protected] 0251-862 2 637
M. Fauzi Collaboration (Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Head, Dept. of Food Science and
Dr. Feri TPC IPB
117 M Technology, Faculty of Agricultural [email protected] 0813 1005 3018
Kusnandar (Institut Pertanian Bogor)
Engineering and Technology
June 21, 2013
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Cellphone /
Numbers
Nunik
Researcher, Head of Research HENRI
Kusumawardan [email protected]; 021-426 1088 ;
118 F Laboratory, Center for Public Ministry of Health, Republic of
i, BSc., MScPH, [email protected] 0818 9096 48
Health Intervention Technology Indonesia
PhD
June 22, 2013
Dr. Anuraj HENRI Harvard School of Public +1 (617) 432
119 M Investigator [email protected]
Shankar Health 1333
Senior Research Scientist
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ANNEX D. TPC Supplemental Information
Maps of TPC Partners’ Community Sites: IPB, UNUD, UNSRAT
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ANNEX E. HENRI SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
HENRI Program Beneficiaries By Gender
Total Number
No Program Female Male Duration
Beneficiaries
1 Master of Science 3 0 3 July 2011‐July 2013 (2) and
July 2012‐July 2014 (1)
2 PhD 3 2 1 July 2011‐July 2014 (2) and
Jan 2012‐Jan 2015 (1)
3 HENRI Harvard Summer 8 7 1 July‐Aug 2012
Seminar Scholars Batch I
4 HENRI Interns 4 3 1
5 HENRI Harvard Summer 4 2 2 July‐Aug 2013
Seminar Scholars Batch II
6 HENRI Curriculum Adjustment 10 9 1 17‐18 June 2011
Workshop at SEAMEO
RECFON
7 HENRI ToT Workshop 1 10 6 4 24‐28 June 2012
8 HENRI ToT Workshop 2 9 7 2 12‐16 March 2012
9 HENRI Writing Workshop 14 12 2 10‐14 Sept 2012
10 Open Seminar: how to publish 28 25 3 14 Sept 2012
your research in a peer‐review
scientific journal
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HENRI Lesson Plan Finalization 8 8 0 29‐30 Apr 2013 and
Workshop 1 and 2 22‐23 May 2013
12 HENRI Statistical Recharging 22 19 3 13‐15 March 2013 and
Workshop 18 March 2013
13 Other MSc and PhD students 10 2 8 MSc Batch 2011‐2013
exposed to HENRI Courses at
SEAMEO RECFON
10 10 0 MSc Batch 2012‐2014
5 4 1 PhD Students
14 Short course participants 18 12 6 2011, 2012,
exposed to HENRI Courses
Total Numbers 166 128 38
Percentages 77% 23%
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ANNEX F. TPC PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW GUIDE (JUNE 2013)

DATE: PARTNER UNIVERSITY:
INTERVIEWEE(S) AND POSITION(S):

INTERVIEWER:

Interviewer introduces himself and team members present; provides background information.
 We appreciate your talking with us about your experiences and insights related to your
university’s participation in the Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC) partnership funded by USAID
through its University Partnerships (UP) program.
 USAID has contracted with 2 U.S. firms (IBTCI; JBS International) to evaluate each of this
program’s 16 U.S.-Indonesia university research partnerships toward the end of its 3-year
USAID award. Since the TPC partnership ends soon, we are evaluating it now.
 USAID is interested in learning from TPC partnership experiences so that it will be able to
improve future U.S.-Indonesia university partnership programs. Thank you.
Note to Interviewer: Some questions may not apply to a particular interviewee. Be sensitive to this
situation; amend or skip questions as needed. Also, ignore the bold headings and evaluation question
references when asking questions; they are to help with analysis later.
GENERAL
1. What was your personal role in planning and implementing the Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC)
partnership?
TPC PARTNERSHIP – OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED (Evaluation Question 1)

2. In what ways has the achievement of the four TPC partnership objectives improved university
and community participants’ knowledge and skills? Give specific examples.
 Curriculum development
 Bioactives research and GAP (“good agricultural practices”) development
 Community education
 Tropical plant-based entrepreneurship
(additional space on next

page)
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3. In what ways has the achievement of the four TPC partnership objectives improved your
university’s capacity to conduct basic and applied research that addresses Indonesian priorities?
Give specific examples.
 Bioactives research and GAP development
TPC PARTNERSHIP – EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES (Evaluation Question 2)

4. What Texas A&M University interventions or practices have improved the quality of your
university’s achievements with respect to the four TPC partnership objectives? Give specific
examples.
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5. What other partnership practices (e.g., planning, communication/coordination, implementation,

evaluation) have improved the quality of your university’s achievements with respect to the four
TPC partnership objectives? Give specific examples.
TPC PARTNERSHIP – UNINTENDED RESULTS (Evaluation Question 3)

6. What unintended (i.e., unplanned) TPC partnership results have improved the quality of your
university’s achievements with respect to the four TPC objectives? How has Texas A&M
University contributed to these unintended results? Give specific examples.
7. What unintended (i.e., unplanned) TPC partnership results have improved your university’s
capacity to conduct basic and applied research that addresses Indonesian priorities? How has
Texas A&M University contributed to these unintended results? Give specific examples.
TPC PARTNERSHIP – LESSONS LEARNED (Evaluation Question 4)
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8. What lessons have you learned from the TPC partnership that could help future U.S.-Indonesia
university partnership programs be more sustainable with respect to each of the following? Give
specific examples.
a. Curriculum development
b. Research services
c. Research publications (refereed; other)
d. Public/private partnerships
e. Collaboration with external stakeholders (e.g., government ministries and offices,
NGOs, private companies)
f. Community education and outreach

g. Entrepreneurship and commercialization
TPC PARTNERSHIP – STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Evaluation Question 5)

9. In terms of your university, what are a few specific examples of TPC partnership strengths?
10. In terms of your university, what are a few specific examples of TPC partnership weaknesses
(i.e., areas in which the TPC partnership could be strengthened)?
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11. To what extent is the TPC partnership sustainable financially and programmatically now that its
USAID/Indonesia University Partnerships funding is ending? Give specific examples.
12. Is there a role for the private sector in providing financial support for U.S.-Indonesia university
partnerships? Give specific examples.
13. If you were to recommend a few key changes in future U.S.-Indonesia university partnership
programs, what would they be? Give specific examples.
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ANNEX G. HENRI PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW GUIDE (JUNE 2013)
DATE: PARTNER UNIVERSITY/ORGANIZATION:

INTERVIEWEE(S) AND POSITION(S):

INTERVIEWER(S):

Interviewer introduces himself and team members present; provides background information.
 We appreciate your talking with us about your experiences and insights related to your
university’s/organization’s participation in the Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI)
partnership funded by USAID through its University Partnerships (UP) program.
 USAID has contracted with 2 U.S. firms (IBTCI; JBS International) to evaluate each of this
program’s 16 U.S.-Indonesia university research partnerships toward the end of its 3-year
USAID award. Since the HENRI partnership ends soon, we are evaluating it now.
 USAID is interested in learning from HENRI partnership experiences so that it will be able to
improve future U.S.-Indonesia university partnership programs. Thank you.
Note to Interviewer: Some questions may not apply to a particular interviewee. Be sensitive to this
situation; amend or skip questions as needed. Also, ignore the bold headings and evaluation question
references when asking questions; they are to help with analysis later.
GENERAL
1. What was your personal role in planning and implementing the Higher Education Network Ring
Initiative (HENRI) partnership?
HENRI PARTNERSHIP – OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED (Evaluation Question 1)

2. In what ways has the HENRI partnership improved your university’s student, researcher, and
lecturer knowledge and skills? How has the Harvard School of Public Health contributed to this
improvement? Give specific examples.
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3. In what ways has the HENRI partnership improved your university’s capacity to improve
teaching and develop a graduate student curriculum to improve data analysis skills? How has
the Harvard School of Public Health contributed to this improvement? Give specific examples.
4. In what ways has the HENRI partnership improved your university’s capacity to conduct basic
and applied research that addresses Indonesian public health policy priorities? How has the
Harvard School of Public Health contributed to this improvement? Give specific examples.
HENRI PARTNERSHIP – EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES (Evaluation Question 2)

5. What HENRI partnership interventions or practices by the Harvard School of Public Health
have improved the quality of your university’s ability to:
a. Establish an active educational data repository and access portal to enable programmatic
interlinking of Indonesian data concerning nutritional, infectious disease and maternal
newborn health issues?
b. Develop and implement a curriculum for the training of integrated and applied data analysis
skills with the focus on obtaining policy results?
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c. Enhance the capacity of your university to provide improved training and research on
national maternal and newborn health and nutrition policy issues?
6. What other HENRI partnership practices (e.g., planning, communication/coordination,

implementation, evaluation) have improved the quality of your university’s public health research
and teaching? Give specific examples.
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HENRI PARTNERSHIP – UNINTENDED RESULTS (Evaluation Question 3)

7. What unexpected results of the HENRI partnership have improved the quality of research,
teaching, and community child health services in your university? How has the Harvard School
of Public Health contributed to this improvement? Give specific examples.
8. What unexpected results of the HENRI partnership have improved your university’s capacity to
conduct basic and applied public health research that addresses Indonesian policy priorities?
How has the Harvard School of Public Health contributed to this improvement? Give specific
examples.
HENRI PARTNERSHIP – LESSONS LEARNED (Evaluation Question 4)

9. What lessons have you learned from the HENRI partnership that could help future Indonesian
university partnership programs be more sustainable with respect to each of the following? Give
specific examples.
a. Curriculum development
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b. Data analysis and research services
c. Refereed research publications
d. Public/private partnerships
e. Collaboration with external stakeholders (e.g., government ministries and offices, NGOs,
private health research institutions)
f. Providing appropriate graduate and post-graduate fellowships for staff and students to train
abroad.
HENRI PARTNERSHIP – STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Evaluation Question 5)

10. In terms of your university, what are a few specific examples of HENRI partnership strengths?
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11. In terms of your university, what are a few specific examples of HENRI partnership weaknesses?
12. To what extent is the HENRI partnership sustainable financially and programmatically after the
USAID HENRI University Partnerships funding has ended? Explain.
13. Is there a role for the private sector in providing financial support for U.S.-Indonesia university
partnerships? Give specific examples.
14. If you were to recommend a few things that should be changed in future U.S.-Indonesia
university partnership programs, what would they be? Give specific examples.
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ANNEX H. EVALUATION TEMPLATE FOR KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEW

GUIDES (KIIGs) (JUNE 2013)

DATE (d/m/yr): __________ PARTNER UNIVERSITY: _________________________________
NAME OF PARTNERSHIP: ______________________________________________________
PERSON(S) INTERVIEWED ______________________________________________________
AND POSITION(S): __________________________________________________________
INTERVIEWER’S(S’) NAME(S): ____________________________________________________
TIME STARTED: __________ TIME ENDED: ________ TOTAL TIME: _____________________
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EVALUATION QUESTION #1
EQ 1.1. How have the knowledge and skills of Indonesian university partnership participants
(e.g., lecturers, researchers, students) improved as a result of each of the following
partnership outcome measures?
a. Achievement of partnership objectives

b. Unanticipated partnership outcomes

c. Partnership program sustainability

d. Partnership documentation production and dissemination

EQ 1.2. How has the Indonesian partner university strengthened its institutional capacity in
research, teaching, and curriculum development as a result of each of the following
partnership outcome measures?
e. Achievement of partnership objectives

f. Unanticipated partnership outcomes

g. Partnership program sustainability

h. Partnership documentation production and dissemination

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EQ 2.1. What partnership planning practices have improved the quality of the Indonesian
partner university’s research services, teaching, and curriculum development? How?
[E.G., joint planning by all partners from the earliest stages; early consideration of how to
sustain project results; realistic time frames when planning intl. travel and project tasks]

EQ 2.2. What partnership communication and coordination practices have improved the
quality of the Indonesian partner university’s research services, teaching, and curriculum
development? How?
[E.G., equal and full prior commitment by all partners on planned actions and goals; orientation
of Indonesian universities to U.S. government award mgmt. procedures; orientation of U.S.
universities to Indonesian culture; Indonesian partner linkages with key Indonesian government
officials]

EQ 2.3. What partnership implementation practices have improved the quality of the
Indonesian university’s research services, teaching, and curriculum development? How?
[E.G., identification of partnership “champions” in each partner institution; encouragement of
effective and low‐cost partner communication; monitoring administrative procedures to ensure
effective implementation; plans if senior administrators change in partner universities]

EQ 2.4. What partnership evaluation practices have improved the quality of the Indonesian
university’s research services, teaching, and curriculum development? How?
[E.G., “formative” assessments to support “mid‐course corrections” that can be implemented in
an orderly manner; use of partnership activity reporting formats and analyses consistent with
those already used by U.S. and Indonesian partner universities; demonstrated understanding by
university partners of the importance of assessment and its links with quality assurance]

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EQ 3.1. What unintended (or “spillover”) partnership outcomes have strengthened each of
the following institutional capacity components in the Indonesian partner university?
a. General administration and leadership

b. Financial management

c. Internal quality assurance systems

d. Collaboration with external stakeholders

e. Institutional capacity to address long‐term Indonesian sustainable development
priorities

f. Institutional contributions to long‐term Indonesian sustainable development
priorities

EQ 3.2. What unintended (or “spillover”) partnership results have improved each of the
following activities in the Indonesian university’s departments targeted in the partnership?
a. Teaching

b. Research

c. (Community) Services

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EQ 4.1. What lessons about effective partnership practices can be learned from partnership
sustainability in curriculum development, research services, publications, public/private
partnerships, and possibilities for engagement with other partners (e.g., government, NGO,
or private sector)?
a. Planning practices

b. Communication and coordination practices

c. Implementation practices

d. Evaluation practices

EQ 4.2. What lessons about key partnership outcome measures can be learned from
partnership sustainability in curriculum development, research services, publications,
public/private partnerships, and possibilities for engagement with other partners (e.g.,
government, NGO, or private sector)?
a. Achievement of partnership objectives

b. Unanticipated partnership outcomes

c. Partnership and partnership program sustainability

d. Partnership documentation production and dissemination

EQ 4.3. What lessons about strengthening Indonesian higher education institutional capacity
and contributions can be learned from partnership sustainability in curriculum development,
research services, publications, public/private partnerships, and possibilities for engagement
with other partners (e.g., government, NGO, or private sector)?

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EQ 5.1. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the partnership with respect to
the following partnership practices? [Please rate each partnership practice on a scale of 4
(Excellent) to 1 (Poor).]

(4) (3) (2) (1)
Partnership Practices Excellent Very Good Average Poor
Planning

Communication
and Coordination

Implementation

Evaluation

EQ 5.2. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the partnership with respect to
the following partnership outcome measures? [Please rate each partnership outcome measure
on a scale of 4 (Excellent) to 1 (Poor).]

Partnership Outcome (4) (3) (2) (1)
Measures Excellent Very Good Average Poor
Achievement of
Partnership Objectives

Unanticipated
Partnership Outcomes

Partnership Program
Sustainability

Partnership Documentation
Production and
Dissemination

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QUESTION 6. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING FUTURE UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
Please suggest how each of the following Indonesian university research partnership‐related
factors might be strengthened to increase the capacity and contributions of Indonesian
universities to address longer term sustainable development priorities in Indonesia.

FACTOR HOW TO IMPROVE IT
University research management,
supervision, and coordination

Relationships with U.S.
partner universities

Dissemination and outreach
of partner research results

Relevance and quality of
technical assistance in:

‐Research

‐Teaching

‐Curriculum development

University/private sector
partnerships

Other international/national
donor collaboration

Impacts on student learning

Sustainable funding and other
support for future university
research in Indonesia

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ENDNOTES
EVALUATION QUESTIONS
USAID/Indonesia identified five questions that are to be addressed in this evaluation project:
1. What are the specific knowledge and skills and the institutional capacity building that
have occurred as a result of the partnership between the U.S. university and the
Indonesian university?
2. What were the project interventions that effective between the participating
universities toward improving the quality of the research services, teaching, and
curriculum development?
Strategy in IR 2.2 {Strengthened Management of Targeted Higher Education Institutions)
and IR 2.3 (Improved Teaching, Research, and Service at Targeted University
Departments) under the partnership?
4. What are the lessons learned from the partnership that may be replicated in future
programs based on its sustainability in curriculum development, research services,
publications, public/private partnerships, and possibilities for engagement with other
partners (government, NGO, or private sector) at the end of the award?
5. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the partnership between the U.S. university
and the Indonesian university?

EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP PRACTICES AND PARTNERSHIP OUTCOME MEASURES
The 2011 USAID report “Best Practices for USAID International Higher Education Institutional
Partnerships: Asia and Middle East Regions,” prepared by JBS International (Aguirre Division),
developed and applied a methodological framework using two main categories: effective
practices and key outcome measures. These partnership practices and outcome measures are
as follows:

Effective Partnership Practices
 Planning Practices
 Communication and Coordination Practices
 Implementation Practices
 Evaluation Practices
Key Partnership Outcome Measures
 Achievement of Partnership Objectives
 Unanticipated Partnership Outcomes
 Partnership and Partnership Program Sustainability
 Partnership Documentation and Dissemination

NOTES ON EVALUATION QUESTION #3
NOTE 1: Prior to the October‐November 2012 IBTCI/JBS Intl. evaluation of University
Partnerships #1 and #2, USAID/Indonesia agreed the IR 2.2 portion of this question could be
deleted.
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NOTE 2: In the published Education Strategy, IR 2.2 is stated as “Improved quality of tertiary
education and research in support of country development priorities,” while IR 2.3 is stated as
“Relevance and quality of workforce development programs improved.” These statements are
different than the IR 2.2 and IR 2.3 statements in Evaluation Question #3.

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ANNEX I. FOCUS GROUP GUIDE FOR UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP

STAKEHOLDERS (JUNE 2013)

Instructions to Facilitator:
This document serves as a focus group guide; it is not a structured survey questionnaire. The
questions below serve as examples of the kind of questions for an informal focus group
discussion on the topic of, for example, “University Partnerships – Benefits and Challenges.” This
format will help to keep the session on the general topic while giving participants enough
flexibility to provide information that may be new to the topic under discussion.

The facilitator begins by explaining the objectives of the session and the reason for the focus
group meeting.

The focus group meeting will start with the following steps:

1. Welcome the focus group participants; explain the purpose of the meeting and that
individual responses will not be attributed.
2. Present the problem and the issues that teams will be required to discuss (5 minutes).
3. Ask questions and encourage the focus group to answer and discuss (10 minutes).
4. Allow the focus group time for discussion, to formulate answers, and keep a record of
their answers (30 minutes).
5. Thank participants for coming, and close the focus group meeting.

Name of Facilitator(s) :_________________________________________________

Focus Group Date :_________________________________________________

Location (University, City) : _________________________________________________

__________________________________________________

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Focus Group Participants:
Name Affiliation
1. _________________________ ___________________________________
2. _________________________ ___________________________________
3. _________________________ ___________________________________
4. _________________________ ___________________________________
5. _________________________ ___________________________________
6. _________________________ ___________________________________
7. _________________________ ___________________________________
8. _________________________ ___________________________________
9. _________________________ ___________________________________
10. _________________________ ___________________________________
11. _________________________ ___________________________________
12. _________________________ ___________________________________

Facilitator Instruction:
Please thank the focus group participants for their participation and state that their inputs
will better focus the evaluation and possibly lead to future USAID‐sponsored University
Partnerships initiatives. Assure them that their responses are anonymous and that shared
information and statements will not be attributed to individual participants.

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ANNEX J. SEMI-STRUCTURED GROUP DISCUSSION GUIDE FOR

UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP STAKEHOLDERS (JUNE 2013)

Use the following illustrative list of questions to guide a semi‐formal discussion with a small
group of senior level respondents who may be unwilling to take part in a more formal semi‐
structured one‐on‐one interview situation.
 Are there any specific gains or benefits you or your organization may have achieved
from participation in the University Partnerships program? Comment about specific
skills or knowledge which may have been gained.

 Are there specific examples of effective program interventions between your institution
and the counterpart U.S. university which you may be willing to share – especially in the
teaching or curriculum development areas?

 Have there been any unintended benefits or losses experienced in trying to achieve
USAID’s current education strategy aimed at improving teaching, research services, and
curriculum development in targeted university departments in the partnership? Give
concrete examples of improvements that you may have experienced in any of the
specific areas listed.

 Are there any lessons to be learned from your partnership experience that may benefit
future university partnership programs in Indonesia? Specify, giving examples taken
from the curriculum development, teaching, research, publications, or private sector
support areas that could be used to encourage other public or private sector partners to
help support and sustain existing and future partnership efforts of this kind.

 Are there any clear examples of University Partnerships program strengths or
weaknesses you may wish to share about your experience in either of the two U.S.‐
Indonesia university partnerships being evaluated in this project?

(More questions can be added)

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ANNEX K. LIST OF REFERENCES

GENERAL REFERENCES
1. A Partnership for Prosperity, USAID Strategy for Indonesia: 2009-2014. December 15, 2009. 56
pages.
2. Evaluation Policy, USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning, January 2011. 14 pages.
3. Education, Opportunity through Learning. USAID Education Strategies. February 2011. 23 pages.
4. Best Practices for USAID International Higher Education Institutional Partnerships: Asia and
Middle East Regions. Volume I. GEM II BPA, Aguirre Division of JBS International, Inc., August
2011. 97 pages.
5. Best Practices for USAID International Higher Education Institutional Partnerships: Asia and
Middle East Regions. Volume II. GEM II BPA, Aguirre Division of JBS International, Inc., August
2011. 167 pages.
6. How to Note: Preparing Evaluation Reports, USAID. July 2012. 7 pages.
7. Evaluation of the Indonesia University Partnerships. Phase One – Partnerships #1 and #2.
USAID Final Report. International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI) and the
Aguirre Division of JBS International, Inc. November 30, 2012. 128 pages.
8. Putting Higher Education to Work: Skills and Research for Growth in East Asia. The World
Bank. 2012. 30 pages. See:
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1279680449418/7267211-1318449387306/EAP_higher_education_fullreport.pdf
9. University Partnerships (UP), The United States Agency for International Development Mission
to Indonesia (USAID/Indonesia). See:
http://indonesia.usaid.gov/en/USAID/Activity/289/University_Partnerships. Accessed June 1,
2013.
10. Direktorat Penelitian dan Pengabdian Pada Masyarakat, Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi,
Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Indonesia. http://dp2m.dikti.go.id/. Official website
accessed June 1, 2013.
11. Policy and Schemes to Support International Research Collaboration. Powerpoint presentation
(21 slides). Agus Subekti, Director of Research and Community Service, Directorate General of
Higher Education (DGHE), Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia. June 5,
2013.
TROPICAL PLANT CURRICULUM (TPC) PARTNERSHIP REFERENCES

TPC General
1. Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. Supporting Universities to Partner Across
the Pacific, The Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. November 4, 2010. 88 pages.
2. USAID Awards International Ag Project to Texas A&M AgriLife Entities. Curriculum Project
Will Help Improve Rural Indonesian Communities. AgriLife News. December 02, 2010. 2 pages.
3. Project Implementation Plan (Work Plan). Tropical Plant Curriculum: 2011-2013. Tropical Plant
Curriculum Project 2011. USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 73 pages.
4. Quarter 1&2 (Q1/Q2) Report (as of 31 May 2011). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project 2011.
USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 39 pages
5. Monthly Financial Report (as of June 30, 2011). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project 2011. USAID
Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 1 page.
6. Third Quarter (Q3) Report (as of 30 September 2011). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project 2011.
USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 141 pages.
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7. Annual Report—Year 1 (November 2010-December 2011). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project

2011. USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 62 pages.
8. Accrual Report. Quarter 3, FY 2010 – 2011. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project 2011. USAID
9. Performance Monitoring Plan. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project – Year 2 (2012). USAID
Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 24 pages.
10. Quarter 5 (Q5) Report (as of 31 March 2012). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. USAID
11. Quarter 6 (Q6) Report (as of 30 June 2012). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. USAID
12. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project Work Plan for 2012 (Year 2). USAID Cooperative
Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 74 pages.
13. Accrual Report for October - December 2012. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. USAID
14. Annual Report—Year 2 (January-December 2012). Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. USAID
Cooperative Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. May 2013. 61 pages.
15. Performance Monitoring Plan. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project – Year 3 (2013). USAID
16. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project Work Plan for 2013 (Year 3). USAID Cooperative
Agreement No. AID-497-A-11-00003. 86 pages.
17. The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture), Texas A&M University System.
http://borlaug.tamu.edu/about/. Official website accessed June 1, 2013.
TPC IPB (Institut Pertanian Bogor), Bogor

18. Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB), Bogor. http://www.ipb.ac.id/. Official website accessed June 1,
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19. SEAFAST Center (Southeast Asian Food and Agricultural Science and Technology Center),
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20. Tropical Plant Curriculum (TPC) Project. Supporting Universities to Partner Across the Pacific.
USAID (2011-2013). Powerpoint presentation (38 slides). Purwiyatno Hariyadi, Director,
SEAFAST Center, IPB, Bogor. June 7, 2013.
21. Modul Pengenalan Tanaman Obat dan Khasiatnya (Introduction to Medicinal Plants and Their
Benefits). nd
22. Horticultural Research and Education Opportunities in Indonesia. Tim D. Davis (TAMUS) and
Purwiyatno Hariyadi (IPB). Hortscience, Vol. 48 (3), March 2013. 4 pages.
23. SEAFAST Center module/teaching materials: Phenolic Compounds. Nuri Andarwulan.
24. SEAFAST Center module/teaching materials: Processing of Tubers/Roots. Sutrisno Koswara.
25. SEAFAST Center module/teaching materials: Natural Colorants. Nuri Andarwulan.
26. Module/teaching materials: Evaluation of Bioactive Components for Health. Nurheni Sri Palupi.
27. Module for Community Education: Training GAP for waterleaf (Talinum fruticosum). Module
Developer: Dr. Sandra Azis; Trainer: Ismail, SP.
28. Module for Community Education: Nursery Guide with Cutting Technique. Module Developer:
Dr. Sandra Azis; Trainer: Dr. Sandra Azis.
29. Module for Community Education: Understanding Medicinal Plants. Module Developer: Prof.
Ervizal Amzu; Trainer: Prof. Ervizal Amzu.
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30. Module for Community Education: Manual process for Ginger (Zingiber officinale) instant drink
production. Module developer: Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Trainer: Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Student
Trainer: Astrid Diniarti.
31. Module for Community Education: Manual process for “temu lawak” (Curcuma xanthorrhiza)
instant powder drink production. Module developer: Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Trainer: Sutrisno
Koswara, MSi; Student Trainer: Citra Ayu Oktavia.
32. Module for Community Education: Production procedure for Herbal Leaf (simplisia) as
medicinal. Module developers: Prof. Lilis Nuraida, Dian H, Msi; Trainer: Dian H, MSi.
33. Module for Community Education: Hidangan dari Daun Kolesom (Recipes of dishes using Water
Leaf). Module developers: Prof. Nuri Andarwulan, Elly Haryati, Ria Choriatul; Trainers: Elly
Haryati, Ria Choriatul.
34. Module for training for student at elementary school: Mengenal Tanaman Obat untuk Murid
Sekolah Dasar: Seri-1 (Introduction to Medicinal Plants for Elementary School Children-Seri I).
Module developer: Dr. Elvira Syamsir; Trainers: Sumarto MP, Elly Haryati, Ria Choriatul, Lira
Felanesa; Student trainers: Yanda, Seno, Jenny, Ali, Yonas, Fefi, Ajie, Stella, Dani, Sobich, Nissa,
Trina, Erydhatirti, Kenny, M Adlan Ali, Lina.
35. Module for training for student at elementary school: Mengenal Tanaman Obat untuk Murid
Sekolah Dasar: Seri-2 (Introduction to Medicinal Plants for Elementary School Children-Seri 2).
Module developer: Dr Elvira Syamsir; Trainers: Sumarto MP, Elly Haryati, Ria Choriatul, Lira
Felanesa; Student trainers: Yanda, Seno, Jenny, Ali, Yonas, Fefi, Ajie, Stella, Dani, Sobich, Nissa,
Trina, Erydhatirti, Kenny, M Adlan Ali, Lina.
36. Module development (SOP) for commercialization of underutilized tropical plants: Manual
process for Ginger instant drink production. Module developer: Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Trainer:
Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Student Trainer: Astrid Diniarti.
37. Module development (SOP) for commercialization of underutilized tropical plants: Manual
process for “temu lawak” instant powder drink production. Module developer: Sutrisno
Koswara, MSi; Trainer: Sutrisno Koswara, MSi; Student Trainer: Citra Ayu Oktavia.
TPC UNUD (Universitas Udayana), Denpasar

8. Modul Pembelajaran. Konservasi Keanekaragaman Hayati dengan Kearifan Lokal. Written by I Made
S Utama, Nanniek Kohdrata. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2011. 30
pages.
9. Laporan Penelitian USAID Tropical Plant Curriculum Project: Praktek Baik Budi Daya Bambu
Rebung Tabah (Gigantochloa nigrociliata BUSE-KURZ). Written by Pande K. Diah Kencana, Wayan
Widia, and Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012.
63 pages.
0. Praktek Baik Budi Daya Tanaman Tapak Dara (Catharanthus roseus (Linn.) Don). Written by Ni
Luh Watiniasih, Putu Sudiartha, Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project.
Universitas Udayana. 2012. 19 pages.
. Praktek Baik Budi Daya Tanaman Sereh Dapur (Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf) Sebagai Bahan
Baku Atsiri. Written by Ketut Sumiartha, I Putu Sudiarta, Nanik Kodrata, Nyoman Semadi Antara.
Tropical Plant Curriculum Project Universitas Udayana, 2012. 20 pages.
2. Research Activity Report: Year 2012. Bamboo Shoots (Gigantochloa nigrociliata) as an Aphrodisiac
on Male Rats (Ratus Norwegicus). Written by A.A.S.A. Sukmaningsih, I Wayan Widia, Nyoman
Semadi Antara, Pande Ketut Diah Kencana, Ida Bagus Wayan Gunam. Tropical Plant Curriculum
Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012. 16 pages.
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3. Laporan Akhir Penelitian Dosen Muda Tahun: Analisis Ketahanan Pangan Masyarakat Pedesaan
(Studi Kasus di Desa Dukuh, Kecamatan Kubu, Kabupaten Karangasem). Written by Putu Udayani
Wijayanti, A.A.A. Wulandira Sawitri Djelantik. Pusat Studi Ketahanan Pangan. Universitas Udayana.
2012. 40 pages.
4. Laporan Penelitian USAID-Tropical Plant Curriculum Project: Kandungan Nutrisi dan Senyawa
Bioaktif Rebung Bambu Sebelum Diolah (Segar) dan Setelah Diolah Dalam Kemasan Botol. Written
by Pande K. Diah Kencana, Wayan Widia, and Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical Plant Curriculum
Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012. 26 pages.
5. Research Activity Report: Year 2012. The Effect of Different Soil Nutrient and Irrigation Levels on
Periwinkle (Chataranthus sp.) at Different Altitudes: An Approach Study for Good Agricultural
Practices (GAP). Written by Ni Luh Watiniasih, Putu Sudiartha, Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical
Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012. 18 pages.
6. Research Activity Report Year: 2012. Utilization of Essential Oil of Lemongrass (Cymbopogon
citratus) as Biopesticide to Control Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) and to Asperigillus
spp. Written by I Putu Sudiartha, Ketut Sumiartha, Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical Plant
Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012. 8 pages.
7. Module Course Enrichment: Model Bisnis dan Manajemen Usaha Kecil: Produk Tanaman Tropis.
Written by Wayan Widia. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012. 43 pages.
8. Research Activity Report Year: 2012. Activity Assays of Various Fractionated Extracts of
Chatarantus Roseus to Inhibit α-Glucosidase Enzyme for Its Potential Antihyperglycemic. Written
by I Nyoman Suarsana, Made Kardena, Nyoman Semadi Antara. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project.
Universitas Udayana. 2012. 9 pages.
9. Modul Kuliah: Senyawa Aroma dan Citarasa (Aroma and Flavor Compounds). Written by Nyoman
Semadi Antara, Made Wartini. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2012, 2013.
70 pages.
0. Modul Pembelajaran. Konservasi Keanekaragaman Hayati dengan Kearifan Lokal. Written by I Made
S Utama, Nanniek Kohdrata. Tropical Plant Curriculum Project. Universitas Udayana. 2011. 30
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44. Mean Difference Analysis. Written by Idral Purnakarya, Defriman Djafri, Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto.
4 pages.
45. Preparing Data for Analysis. Written by Idral Purnakarya, Defriman Djafri, Nur Indrawaty
Lipoeto. 4 pages.
46. Simple regression linear analysis. (by Idral Purnakarya, Defriman Djafri, Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto).
4 pages,
47. Univariate Analysis. Written by Idral Purnakarya, Defriman Djafri, Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto. 4
pages.
48. Uji Chi-Square. Written by Idral Purnakarya. 5 slides.
49. Uji Instrumen dan Normalitas Data. Written by Idral Purnakarya. 5 slides.
50. Uji Perbedaan Rerat. Written by Idral Purnakarya. 5 slides.
51. Uji Korelasi dan Regresi Linear. Written by Idral Purnakarya. 9 slides.
52. Analisis Univariat (Deskriptif). Written by Idral Purnakarya) 6 slides.
53. Proses Enter Data Pada EpiData. Written by Defriman Djafri. slides.
54. Proses Document dan Export Data Pada EpiData. Written by Defriman Djafri. 20 slides.
55. File dan Transformasi Data. Written by Idral Purnakarya. 13 slides.
56. Manajemen, Analisis & Interpretasi Data. Written by Defriman Djafri. 50 slides.
57. Manajemen dan Transformasi Data. Written by Defriman Djafri. 30 slides.
58. Proses Define Data pada EpiData. Written by Defriman Djafri. 16 slides.
59. Proses Make Data File & Add Check pada EpiData. Written by Defriman Djafri. 20 slides.
Manuscripts Produced by HENRI UNAND:

60. Role of Community-Level Effects in Pneumonia in Indonesia Children Under 5: Multilevel
Statistical Analysis. Written by Rizanda Mahmud, Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University.
61. Determinant Factors for Low Birthweight in West Sumatera. Written by Idral Purnakarya and
Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto, Faculty of Public Health, Andalas University. 2013. 5 pages.
Research Concept Poster Produced by HENRI UNAND:

62. Pattern and Determinant of Infant and Child Feeding Practice among Non-Working and Specific
Mother Types in Indonesia: A Secondary Data Analysis of Multiple-Nationwide Studies from
2002-2013. Written by Aria Kekalih, Judhiastuty Februhartanty, and Anuraj Shankar.
63. Explaining Factors Associated to Stunting-Child-Overweight-Mother Pairs within Household
(SCOWT) in Urban and Rural Area of Indonesia: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual, Household,
and Community Factors. Written by Yori Novrianto, Helda Khusun, and Luh Ade Ari
Wiradnyani.
64. Explanatory Factors of Adherence Towards Maternal and Child Nutrition Program in Indonesia.
Written by Luh Ade Ari Wiradnyani, Helda Khusun, Endang L Achadi, and Anuraj Shankar.
65. The Effectiveness of Multilevel Promotion of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Rural Java. Poster PD1-
007, XI Asian Congress of Nutrition, Singapore, 13-17 July 2011. Written by Kun Aristiati, Sri
Krisnamurni, Sunarto, Santo Yosef, Didik Widiyanto, Achmad Yazid, and Siswanto Agus Wilopo.
98
ANNEX L. CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENTS
99
Disclosure of Conflict of Interest for USAID Evaluation Team Members
Name Dr. Frank Dall

Title Senior Education Evaluation Specialist
Organization JBS
Evaluation Position Team Leader X Team member
Evaluation Award Number (contract or AID-497-TO-12-00004
other instrument)
USAID Project(s) Evaluated (Include Indonesia Univ. Partnerships. 3) Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum. 4)
project name(s), implementer name(s) and Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI)
award number(s), if applicable)
I have real or potential conflicts of Yes No X
interest to disclose.
If yes answered above, I disclose the
following facts:
Real or potential conflicts of interest may
include, but are not limited to:
1. Close family member who is an employee
of the USAID operating unit managing
the project(s) being evaluated or the
implementing organization(s) whose
project(s) are being evaluated.
2. Financial interest that is direct, or is
significant though indirect, in the
projects are being evaluated or in the
outcome of the evaluation.
3. Current or previous direct or significant
though indirect experience with the
project(s) being evaluated, including
involvement in the project design or
previous iterations of the project.
4. Current or previous work experience or
seeking employment with the USAID
operating unit managing the evaluation
or the implementing organization(s)
whose project(s) are being evaluated.
5. Current or previous work experience with
an organization that may be seen as an
industry competitor with the
6. Preconceived ideas toward individuals,
groups, organizations, or objectives of
the particular projects and organizations
being evaluated that could bias the
evaluation.
I certify (1) that I have completed this disclosure form fully and to the best of my ability and (2) that I will update this disclosure
form promptly if relevant circumstances change. If I gain access to proprietary information of other companies, then I agree to
protect their information from unauthorized use or disclosure for as long as it remains proprietary and refrain from using the
information for any purpose other than that for which it was furnished.
Signature
Disclosure of Conflict of Interest for USAID Evaluation Team Members
Name Dwatmadji, PhD

Title Education / Evaluation Consultant
Organization IBTCI
Evaluation Position Team Leader Team member
Evaluation Award Number(contract or AID-497-T0-12-00004
other instrument)
USAID Project(s) Evaluated(Include Indonesia Univ. Partnerships. 3) Developing a Tropical Plant Curriculum. 4)
project name(s), implementer name(s) and Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI)
award number(s), if applicable)
I have real or potential conflicts of Yes No
interest to disclose.
If yes answered above, I disclose the
following facts:
Real or potential conflicts of interest may
include, but are not limited to:
1. Close family member who is an employee
of the USAID operating unit managing
the project(s) being evaluated or the
2. Financial interest that is direct, or is
significant though indirect, in the
projects are being evaluated or in the
outcome of the evaluation.
3. Current or previous direct or significant
though indirect experience with the
project(s) being evaluated, including
involvement in the project design or
previous iterations of the project.
4. Current or previous work experience or
seeking employment with the USAID
operating unit managing the evaluation
or the implementing organization(s)
whose project(s) are being evaluated.
5. Current or previous work experience with
an organization that may be seen as an
industry competitor with the
6. Preconceived ideas toward individuals,
groups, organizations, or objectives of the
particular projects and organizations
being evaluated that could bias the
evaluation.
I certify (1) that I have completed this disclosure form fully and to the best of my ability and (2) that I will update this disclosure
form promptly if relevant circumstances change. If I gain access to proprietary information of other companies, then I agree to
protect their information from unauthorized use or disclosure for as long as it remains proprietary and refrain from using the
information for any purpose other than that for which it was furnished.
Signature
Date August 8, 2013

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EVALUATION OF THE INDONESIA

UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM:

August 27, 2013

INDONESIAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS ................................................................................................. 22

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

TAMU Texas A&M University

PURPOSES OF THE EVALUATION

EVALUATION METHODOLOGY AND LIMITATIONS

ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT

II. TROPICAL PLANT CURRICULUM (TPC) PARTNERSHIP

Table 1A. TPC Faculty/Staff Participants: 2012

Table 1B. TPC Community and Student Training Participants: 2012

GRAND TOTAL 29 Females, 23 Males

EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES

EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS

EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY

EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

 Expand their Indonesian training networks

III. THE HIGHER EDUCATION NETWORK RING INITIATIVE

THE HENRI PARTNERS AND FINANCIAL REPORT

TABLE 3. Financial Report for HENRI, March 31, 2013 (US$)

INDONESIAN PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS

HENRI’S NATIONAL CHALLENGE

EVALUATION QUESTION #1. PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED

Number of Training of 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 2

Number of HENRI 0 Y1: 2 Y1: 0

Alumni 0 Y1: 0 Y1: 0

EVALUATION QUESTION #2: PARTNERSHIP INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES

EVALUATION QUESTION #3: UNANTICIPATED PARTNERSHIP RESULTS

EVALUATION QUESTION #4: LESSONS LEARNED FROM PARTNERSHIP SUSTAINABILITY

EVALUATION QUESTION #5: PARTNERSHIP STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

HENRI PARTNERSHIP RECOMMENDATIONS

Future of USAID US-Indonesia University Partnership Programs

ANNEX A. Scope of Work

Literature and Documentation Review

Site Visits and Interview Instruments

Discussions with U.S. Partners

ACTIVITY TIME FRAME

Work Plan and Evaluation Design

Key Documents for Review

“Best Practices for USAID International Higher Education Institutional Partnerships:

“Assessment of Higher Education Institutional Capacity in Selected Geographic and

ANNEX B. Work Plan and Calendar

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

ANNEX C. Individuals Interviewed

Y. Teken TPC UNUD

Commercialization Team in TPC; TPC UNSRAT

Prof. Ir. Dantje

ANNEX D. TPC Supplemental Information

Maps of TPC Partners’ Community Sites: IPB, UNUD, UNSRAT

ANNEX E. HENRI SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

HENRI Program Beneficiaries By Gender

ANNEX F. TPC PARTNERSHIP INTERVIEW GUIDE (JUNE 2013)

TPC PARTNERSHIP – OBJECTIVES ACHIEVED (Evaluation Question 1)

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