Economics & Development

This practical guidance note is designed to help World Bank Task Team Leaders (TTLs), Accredited Procurement Specialist (APSs), and borrower project teams navigate these complexities. It provides actionable good practices and tools for every stage of the procurement cycle, promoting the technical soundness of digital investments as well as making them more open, secure, sustainable, and optimized to maximize social value returns.

This note focuses on targeting reforms that will allow government expenditure to cover a greater share of vulnerable households and improve overall scheme sustainability. It provides a brief overview on the importance of targeting, highlights key challenges to targeting in Indonesia, and proposes steps to improve target efficiency.