Dear NTA members,

Happy New Year! 

As we concluded 2017 and welcomed 2018, we thought it would be good to share with you our activities and achievements in 2016-2017 through our annual report.

Feel free to access our annual report here.

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We are thrilled to be profiled in the latest Devpolicy blog post. Check it out the full post here.

This blog entry is a re-post of the article 'Drought looms in East Nusa Tenggara'

12 January 2016 Djemi Amnifu, The Jakarta Post

In July 2015 NTA commenced an in-depth review of its support to education activities. The review was led by David Lever, a member of the Operations Committee, and supported by Indonesian education expert Ibu Letje Inabuy.

ACFID, the peak body for Australian agencies providing foreign aid, has strongly criticised recent Government cuts to the Australian aid budget.

I am a 66-year old who recently spent two weeks in Sikka Province, Flores, working as part of the NTA’s team monitoring the efficiency and effectiveness of its projects in that area.  I enjoyed the experience immensely. 

I accompanied my NTA colleagues, both Australian and Indonesian, and members of our partner organisation, the YPMF, in visits to farming communities (‘kelompoks’) to assess the NTA-assisted projects, ranging from the installation of water tanks and household toilets to the establishment of school libraries and the training of librarians, improved cocoa, coconut and vegetable farming, and production of ikat textiles. 

Each day we would spend about 7 or 8 hours talking to the representatives of farmers who have received assistance (and those who were seeking new funding), or school teachers, in around six different locations, negotiating some tricky roads but magnificent scenery in the process. 

Kupang Post, 3/3/2014

A recent discussion on cattle development in NTT involving a Bank Indonesia delegation from NTT province and the Kupang Post showed Bank Indonesia and Kupang Post’s interest in supporting the resolve of the government that NTT become a Livestock Province.

Head of the Bank Indonesia delegation from NTT, Naek Tigor Sinaga, said NTT’s economic growth showed an increase of 5.55 per cent in 2013. 34.22 per cent of this comes from the farming sector, particularly horticulture and livestock.

This program, which covers 35 small libraries established by the NTA in primary and secondary schools, is continuing in 2014. General training is being conducted in the most improved school libraries in the program, giving teachers the opportunity to learn from the best facilities. Then in May and June the library trainer Pak Frans, who is the Chief Librarian of the Catholic University in Kupang, will follow up with ‘individual’ training of teachers in the worst libraries.