About the Proposal

The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice Phase 3 (AIPJ3) is a five-year, A$63 million investment by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to work in partnership with the Government of Indonesia (GOI) to support advancement of its priority law and justice reforms. Building on previous phases, AIPJ3 will support partners to deliver activities against agreed policy priorities, while maintaining flexibility to respond to emerging needs and opportunities. The program focuses on seven policy priorities that are important to Australia and Indonesia: accountability and transparency, criminal justice reform, preventing violent extremism, transnational crime cooperation, commercial law, access to justice, and women’s leadership.

Strengthening the handling of marriage dispensation applications is a key component of AIPJ3's efforts to improve access to justice and child protection in Indonesia. Marriage dispensation proceedings have significant implications for children's protection and future wellbeing. In practice, judges often have limited information about a child's circumstances, including their family situation, physical and mental health, educational continuity, protection risks, and support service needs when examining and deciding marriage dispensation applications. This can limit the court's ability to comprehensively assess the best interests of the child.

To strengthen child protection in these proceedings, the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (KPPPA), with support from the Australia–Indonesia Partnership for Justice Phase 2 (AIPJ2), developed a draft Guideline for the Preparation of Child Protection Reports in Marriage Dispensation Applications, including a Child Protection Report (Laporan Perlindungan Anak/LPA) template. The LPA is intended to provide judges with comprehensive information to support informed decision-making. However, following consultations with KPPPA and other key stakeholders, the draft guideline and LPA require further refinement to improve their practicality, strengthen implementation arrangements, and better support their consistent use by Pusat Pembelajaran Keluarga (PUSPAGA).

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About the Engagement:

AIPJ3, in partnership with KPPPA, seeks a qualified Subcontractor to provide technical expertise to refine the LPA, develop an implementation mechanism and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for its use within PUSPAGA, strengthen referral arrangements with relevant services, and prepare a practical handbook to support its effective implementation.

The objective of the service aims to strengthen child protection in marriage dispensation proceedings by improving the quality of the LPA and supporting its effective implementation within PUSPAGA. Specifically, the consultancy seeks to:

• Improve the quality and practicality of the LPA to better support child-centred decision-making in marriage dispensation cases.
• Establish a clear and consistent process for the preparing and implementing the LPA within PUSPAGA, including coordination and referral arrangements with relevant stakeholders.
• Strengthen the capacity of PUSPAGA personnel to prepare and use the LPA effectively and consistently.
• Promote a more coordinated and standardised approach to child protection assessments in marriage dispensation proceedings.

The Expected Outcomes

• A strengthened LPA that is practical, comprehensive, and fit for use in marriage dispensation proceedings.
• A clear and standardised process for preparing and implementing the LPA within PUSPAGA, including defined coordination and referral arrangements with relevant stakeholders.
• Improved capacity of PUSPAGA personnel to prepare and apply the LPA consistently and effectively.
• More consistent and comprehensive child protection assessments to support judges in making decisions that uphold the best interests of the child.

Requirement for the Request for Proposals (RFP)

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• Support data collection, analysis, reporting and quality assurance processes.
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• The role will be located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with regular travel to program implementation areas and close engagement with MOWRAM.
• This position is open to Cambodian nationals only.
• Full time, fixed term for 12 months and with potential to extend.

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• The role will be based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with regular travel to program implementation areas.
• This position is open to Cambodian nationals only.
• Full time, fixed term for 12 months and with potential to extend.

Key Information
Position: Cashew Skill Development Centre Consultant  
Reports to: Trade, Investment and Agri-food Innovation Lead
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Period of Assignment: September 2026 to May 2027
Duration:  up to 120 days 
Employment type: National Consultant
Contractual arrangement: Eligible for individual national expert
 
Program Background
The CAPRED Facility is Australia's flagship bilateral economic development program in Cambodia. The Facility supports Cambodia in implementing a range of necessary economic interventions and reforms to maintain the country's economic transition. These interventions and reforms are primarily aimed at encouraging more productive and inclusive public and private investment, which promotes a resilient, inclusive and sustainable economy (RISE).
 
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• Duration : 1 year with possibility of extension

• Location : Jakarta, with travel to provincial offices

• This position is open to Indonesia nationals and permanent residents with authority to live and work in Indonesia. This is a full-time national position.

About Palladium
Palladium is a global development and consulting firm, part of the GISI Consulting Group, working alongside some of the world’s leading project management and engineering organisations. We partner with governments, businesses, investors and communities to design and deliver complex programs that create lasting impact. With a presence across more than 90 countries, Palladium offers the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges, alongside talented colleagues, in environments where your work can truly make a difference.

Program Overview
Indonesia’s Vision 2045 sets the goal for Indonesia to transition from a resource-based economy towards an advanced service, technology, and knowledge-based economy by the centenary of its independence (2045). The 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Plan emphasises the urgency of Indonesia’s human resource development to fully realise 2045 goals.

Faced however with persistent low student performance that is emblematic of a learning crisis, significant improvement in student learning will be required to reach Indonesia’s 2045 goals. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has started an ambitious program of education reforms. Successive education ministers have set out to modernise the education system through reforming the national curriculum and teaching and assessment approaches, to produce citizens with strong foundational skills, open minds, and inclusive values. 

Australia is a long-term supporter of the Indonesian basic education sector, with continuous investments supporting education quality improvements for the past two decades, including through the INOVASI program (Phase 1 2016-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023) that focused on supporting acquisition of literacy and numeracy foundational skills in early grades classrooms; exploring local problems and solutions; and generating evidence to inform government policy development and practices.

This third phase of INOVASI (2024-2027) builds upon the existing program’s approach and lessons learned and takes the focus on the development of foundational skills through to the end of the primary grades. Phase 3 will engage with priority issues of Australia’s development policy: gender equality, effective inclusion of children with a disability, responses to the climate change challenge in education. It will focus on the challenge of policy implementation and the gaps that exist between national policies and practices at district and school levels, and use the well attested-success of INOVASI’s local problem-based approach to continuously support policy development for effective fit between policy and implementation context.

The Program is implemented by Palladium on behalf of DFAT.

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The Operations Manager is responsible for coordinating and managing day-to-day operational systems, services and functions across INOVASI to support effective program implementation. The position works closely with national and provincial operational teams to ensure operational processes are implemented consistently, efficiently and in compliance with Palladium, DFAT and Government of Indonesia requirements. The role provides practical operational support to program teams and requires regular travel to provincial and district offices to monitor operations, strengthen operational capability, resolve operational issues and support effective program delivery.

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