Youth Participation in Health Services and Child Protection Policies (ID0162)

Project Overview

This commitment aims to develop policy recommendations and structured, integrated, and child rights-based models of child participation in the monitoring and evaluation of health services and child protection policies, particularly those related to the prevention and handling of sexual violence. Through the strengthening of participatory mechanisms, this commitment encourages the meaningful involvement of children as stakeholders in conveying their experiences, needs, and input on policies and services that directly impact them. The developed participation model is expected to serve as a reference in improving the quality of child protection policies and health services that are more responsive, inclusive, and oriented towards the best interests of children.

Targeted Issues

Children are often not involved in the evaluation of health policies or services that affect them, so health policies and services for children often lack a child’s perspective; one example is the implementation of the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program, where children are still not given a voice in policies that are intended for them. With the existence of a model for child participation in the monitoring and evaluation of health policies and services for children, it is hoped that the government and child health service providers will have a child’s perspective in the process of policy formulation and implementation of health services for children.

Causes of the Problem

Regulation of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Number 18 of 2019, amended by Regulation of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Number 1 of 2022 and Regulation of the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Number 3 of 2025, concerning the implementation of the Children’s Forum, mandates that children be involved in the policy-making process, but does not regulate the involvement of children in the monitoring and evaluation process. In the principle of good governance, the role of citizens as providers of feedback is very important to improve the quality of policies and their implementation, including services. In this context, children as citizens have the right to have their opinions heard in the process of monitoring and evaluating government policies and their implementation. However, current policies do not regulate the involvement of children in the process of monitoring and evaluating government policies.

Commitment Description
Proposed Solutions

What will you do to solve this problem? How will the solution solve the problem? Also, what solutions have been available for this problem in previous years? How successful were those solutions?

A model for child participation in the framework of policy monitoring and evaluation and its implementation needs to be created. To implement this model at every level of government, child participation in government monitoring and evaluation needs to become government policy.

Relevance to 5 OGP Strategic Issues

Are the proposed solutions related to one of the priority issues of Open Government Indonesia? (Anti-Corruption 1) Access to Transparency 2) Civic Space and Democracy 3) Inclusive Digital Services 4) Access to Justice 5) Energy Environment and Natural Resources)

Proposed solutions related to Indonesia’s Open Government priority issues:
-Inclusive Public Services
-Citizenship and Democracy

Relevance to the Government’s Priority Agenda

Can the proposed solutions be aligned with government work plans as outlined in the Asta Cita (Work Program)?

Included in the 4th RPJMN/Asta Cita national priority: human resource development, science, technology, education, health, sports achievements, gender equality, and strengthening the role of women, youth, and people with disabilities.

Expected Outcome

What output do you want to achieve? What is the scale or scope of change you want to achieve? Describe the targeted change efforts in a form that can be evaluated or measured. (e.g. change at the institutional level, changes in behavior, systems, practices, regulatory changes, etc.)

The availability of policies and models for child participation in monitoring and evaluation as a form of child participation in improving health services for children. With these policies and models, child participation will increase more broadly, better, and more meaningfully, especially for improving the implementation of child health services.

Commitment Plan
Results Indicators

(Results indicators are part of a series of actions or events that, when implemented, will lead to the achievement of the desired results of the commitment.)

The government conducts training on the mechanism for involving children in the process of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of policies on health services and child protection (specifically related to sexual violence).

Output

(Output is a concrete and objectively verifiable result that is the direct product of activities carried out or implemented.)

Guidelines/modules for monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation

Three batches of pilot training on child participation instruments in monitoring and evaluation of health services and child protection policy implementation in three regions

Policy recommendations (guidelines/modules & technical guidelines) through the Chair of KPAI to the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection

Timeline

(Results indicators will be evaluated periodically every 6 months. Describe the estimated level of success that can be achieved within the timeframe.)

Estimated final output for year 1 (M-12) and year-2 (M-24)

Stakeholders

(Commitment holders and parties involved in achieving results indicators)

Government:

Indonesia Child Protection Commission

NGOs:

Wahana Visi Indonesia