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Summary: Socio-economic and political turmoil
in Indonesia has had an impact on
the country's thirty years of progress
in social development. However, it
has also opened up new avenues for
participation and region-specific
policy formulation alongside growing
demand for new approaches to the
monitoring and analysis of social
change. This paper examines the Family-in-Focus Approach – a
comprehensive lifespan-based concept of human development.
This joint initiative from UNICEF, the Government of Indonesia
and others, sees families as participants in development rather
than passive recipients of programmes. A family focus in the
planning of multi-sectoral interventions could ensure better
targeting, while building capacity for analysis at Governmental
and institutional levels. Owner: Friedhelm Betkepdf: www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/iwp83.pdf