Grant is provided under the PVO Co-financing Project in Indonesia to the Institute for Social and Economic Research, Education, and Information (referred to as LP3ES) to support two development models for enabling indigenous NGO”s to achieve financial and institutional self-sufficiency. The first model is to establish a mechanism that will enable LP3ES to increase its institutional self-reliance through the publication and sale of 20 Indonesian-language books dealing with development themes, economic theory, land tenure and legal issues, democracy, and politics. The second model will strengthen the workshop skills training center of a subgrantee, LPTP (unidentified acronym). LPTP will: (1) provide workshop skills training to 100-200 high school dropouts each year; (2) develop a mechanism for funding community development activities through profits from the workshop; (3) develop an institutional capacity for innovation and adaptation of appropriate technologies for village use, particularly in the areas of food technology, environmental health and water supply, alternative energy sources, and home industries; and (4) establish a revolving credit fund to support technology dissemination in the form of credit for off-Java NGO”s, loans to workshop graduates to start new business, scholarships for prospective trainees, and support for LPTP”s own program development.
