Final evaluation report : final performance evaluation of USAID CEGAH

CEGAH has administered 52 tasks designed to reduce corruption by bolstering the abilities of its justice sector, governing institutions and civil society to improve Indonesia’s “Community of Accountability.” The Evaluation Team (ET) conducted this evaluation remotely due to coronavirus restrictions, collecting data from May through July 2020 through a document review, 77 video-conference-based key informant interviews (KIIs) with 123 stakeholders, an online-administered mini survey sent to 126 beneficiaries, and “virtual” site visits in North Sumatra and East Java. A key area of inquiry for the ET was assessing which of CEGAH’s interventions were the most and least successful, and which external factors were affecting this process. The ET found that CEGAH’s most substantive contributions were through accessible oversight tools facilitating changes in policies and practices, such as the Supreme Court’s Direktori Putusan (Case Directory), being used for research to reduce sentencing disparities in corruption cases nationwide; and the SP4N LAPOR! national complaint handling system, which is changing how local governments deliver public services; conversely, CEGAH-supported efforts to address links between corruption and violent extremism resulted in research demonstrating limited connections, and civil service recruitment testing tools that raised concerns over potential misuse and human rights implications in their application by some agencies. External factors influencing these and other interventions included a new law restricting the enforcement capabilities of Indonesia’s primary anti-corruption agency, key logistical, programming and budgetary restrictions caused by COVID-19, the varying quality of Internet coverage in remote areas, and key staffing rotations and departures within supported governing institutions, particularly at the local level.