Baseline Assessment on Women's Accessibility to Public Services (Banten Province) : Management Strengthening and Institution Building for Local Public Service and Providers
One objective of decentralization is toimprove the efficiency, effectiveness, quality, equity,accessibility, and responsiveness of public servicedelivery. But up to now, various service pictures show howwomen have more limited access to good public services.Maternal, infant, and children under 5 mortality rates inIndonesia are among the highest in South East Asia region.There are 307 maternal deaths per 1000 births, due to anybirth complications. It means that two mother die every twohours. There are 46 children of 1000 children die beforethey celebrate their 5th birthday. It means that 225,000children die every year, and 25 children under 5 die everyhour. Management Strengthening and Institution Building forLocal Public Service and Providers (MSIB-LPSP) is programthat having purpose to improve institutional management ofpopulation/ civil administration service at Serang District,of water service and of public hospital health service atCilegon city. To make MSIB-LPSP program brings improvementon gender equality in accessing public service, the programneed empiric findings on women and men access towardpopulation/ civil administration, water, and health service.The baseline assessment is MSIB-LPSP supporting research toprovide such empirical findings.