The World Bank has been administering on behalf of the government of Indonesia, an Asian Financial Crisis Response Trust Fund (ASEM) grant which aims to develop a methodology for regional civil service reform. Within the prevailing complicated legal, institutional and regulatory framework, the work program financed by the ASEM grant has developed recommendations aimed at alleviating the serious constraints caused by the administrative, personnel and financial regulations imposed on regional governments. At present these constraints are impeding the efficient and effective improvement of service delivery and other functions that needs to be reformed. The program has been completed and this volume contains two reports intended to disseminate the results and findings. The first report is entitled: constraints and opportunities for civil service reform in Indonesia: exploration of a new approach and methodology. The second report is entitled: innovation in the regions: a new initiative for Kota Solok. The latter describes a proposed pilot in detail, including its rationale, purpose and terms of reference. This volume highlights and summarizes various previous reports, briefing notes and summaries of meetings and workshops produced during the implementation of the work program of the ASEM grant. Four earlier reports on part of the work program have already been issued. Two were published by the World Bank: these are civil service reforms at the regional level: institutional, regulatory and financial issues facing reforming regions in Indonesia (July 2005) and completed civil service diagnostics and road maps for reform in Nusa Tenggara Barat (July 2005). Two other reports were issued and distributed but not published by the World Bank: completed civil service diagnostics and road maps for reform in West Sumatra (October 2005) and synthesis report. The latter comprises of three parts: part one, major policies and technical instruments for reform of personnel and organization; revenue and expenditure; part two, civil service reform in regions' contents of a pilot project; and part three, possible focus and organization of centrally driven civil service reform initiatives.

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