SKALA is an 8-year program commencing in November 2022 with a total value of up to AUD 160 million (approximately IDR 1.5 trillion). SKALA will focus on strengthening selected elements of Indonesia’s large and complex decentralised governance systems such as Public Financial Management (PFM), Minimum Service Standard (MSS), planning and budgeting, and local leadership while strengthening GEDSI mainstreaming into the systems.

SKALA’s Pillar 3 Engagement Strategy focuses on SKALA’s approach to building influence and ensuring that the voices of poor and vulnerable communities are better incorporated into local government processes of planning and budgeting, leading to improved service delivery.

SKALA’s Pillar 2 Engagement Strategy focuses on the program’s subnational level engagement, which primarily covers the Intermediate Outcomes (IOs) of the second end of program outcome with linkages to other program IOs.

SKALA’s Pillar 1 Engagement Strategy is about the program’s national level engagement, primarily with three key ministries: the Ministry of National Development Planning or Bappenas, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

SKALA’s Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) strategy shapes SKALA’s national and subnational engagement by ensuring that interventions are guided by a comprehensive analysis of gender, disability, and social inclusion within Indonesia’s socio-cultural, economic, and political context.