Evaluation of the Indonesia university partnerships program : phase two, partnerships #3 and #4

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. 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. (Excerpt, modified)