Edi Suharto is a
specialist in the area of Social Work Macro Practice.
With more than
twenty
years of experience, he has been serving as lecturer,
researcher, training manager, programme designer and
policy analyst in the field of social
policy and social
development.
Focusing
on social
protection and
social welfare services,
his interest and expertise deal with
poverty alleviation programmes, social
security schemes, child protection
strategies
as well as corporate social
responsibility and community development initiatives.
Dr Suharto is currently
Director of
Child
Welfare,
Ministry of Social Affairs, directing “Program
Kesejahteraan Sosial Anak” (social welfare program for
children) and especially focusing on five clusters:
neglected children, street children, children in
conflict with the law, children with disabilities, and
children in need of social protection. Involving
institutional as well as community-and-family based
approaches, in 2013 the program provided social services
to more than 175.000 childrens all over Indonesia. He
was previously Director of Social Security in the
same ministry, directing mainly “Program Keluarga
Harapan” or family hope program, a national conditional
cash transfer benefiting nearly three million poor
families, including more than six millions of their
children, in 2012.
He was
also
Vice Chairperson for Academic Affairs
at the Bandung College of Social Welfare, Indonesia
(2008-2011)
after serving two years as Director of
the Postgraduate School of Specialist Social Work at the
college.
He is
also a visiting
senior
lecturer at Master Programme of Interdisciplinary
Islamic Studies and Social Work, Islamic State
University of Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta; Postgraduate
School of Social Work and Community Development, Bogor
Institute of Agriculture; Postgraduate Programme of
Managament of Social Development, University of
Indonesia, Jakarta; PhD Programme of Social Welfare,
University of Indonesia, Jakarta; and Master and PhD
Programe of Social Welfare, Padjadjaran University,
Bandung. In these postgaruate programmes of social
work/social welfare, Dr Suharto gives lectures and
serves as thesis supervisor in a number of subjects and
areas such as social policy analysis, social welfare
policy and programme, human service management, social
work with poverty, and community organisation and
development (COCD).
He often serves as consultant for
international organisations such as ILO-IPEC
(International Labour Organisation – International
Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour),
Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), Hungary; and
Galway Development Services International (GDSI),
Ireland. In 2007, he has served as Special Expert for
Ministry of Social Affairs for a year in developing and
implementing PKH (Programme Keluarga Harapan), a
conditional cash transfer scheme developed by
Bappenas (National Board of Development Planning) in
cooperation with the World Bank.
In 2007-2009, Dr Suharto was consultant
for Plan International for CNSP (Children in Need
of Special Protection) programme in IndLocal
Government and Public Service Reform Initiative
(LGI), Budapest Hungary. onesia. From November
2008 to November 2009, Dr Suharto is Policy Fellow at
With Nancy Peddle, PhD, Head of LemonAid USA, in 2009 he
served as consultant for UNICEF in analysing
the referral systems of child protection
in Indonesia.
In 2010,
Dr Suharto is consultant for
Coordinating Ministry of
People
Welfare,
Plan International
Indonesia,
UNICEF, and Equitas (International Human
Rights Organization), Canada.
Since September 2011 to
2012,
Dr Suharto
was
assigned as a member of Advisory Panel, ProRep USAID
and consultant for UNESCAP project of Analyzing
Social Protection Policies with a focus on Income
Support Scheme
in Asia and Pacific region.
In 2011-2012 he was serving as consultant for UNDP
to lead a project on Mapping Social Protection Systems
in Indonesia. |
