In Indonesia, IRD is working with Save the Children, Academy for Educational Development, and The Asia Foundation on the Decentralized Basic Education 3 Program, or DBE3. Specifically, IRD is tasked with managing life and workforce skills component of this project.

The goal of the life and workforce component of DBE3 is to increase the relevance of learning opportunities to ensure they directly relate to the skills needed to enter Indonesia’s rapidly developing workforce. IRD meets this goal through the following activities:

• - developing more relevant curricula content;
• - adding extracurricular and service learning activities;
• - implementing dropout prevention strategies; and
• - designing teacher-training and trainer modules that provide ways to integrate life skills, community resources, and opportunities for student governance into basic education.
  
  

These activities target junior high school students to better prepare them to enter the workforce and participate in community development. In order to promote a greater variety of opportunities for the students, IRD works in close coordination with the Indonesia government and other community-based organizations in Central Java.

In response to requests from the United States Agency for International Development, among others, IRD has also begun work to extend the project to establish and promote networks between non-formal and formal education instructors in other conflict-affected areas in Indonesia.

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