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This report it the outcome of an assignment given by the Director of the BRR Aceh-Nias to the authors of this paper under UNDP financial assistance. Both the terms of reference of the contract as well as verbal instructions by Mr. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the BRR Director, instructed the drafting team of this report to think at the policy level, without getting down to operational micro issues except when relevant to the argument being made or in support of a perticular factual proposition advanced in the report. The main focus of the report was to provide a policy framework for an exit strategy for BRR whose legal term expires in April 2009.
During the course of visits to Banda Aceh and follow up discussions in Jakarta with senior BRR staff as well as other experts working on various aspects of the Aceh-Nias economics and governance issues, it was apparent that several groups had also been requested to examine various aspects of BRR's expected departure from Aceh-Nias. At first, this appeared as confusing and repetitious but subsequent discussion highlighted the fact that BRR senior management was keen to promote an orderly hand over of many of its functions and capabilities to the new provincial and district governments as well as to ensure that some of the reconstruction work it had begun, especially in housing and transport infrastructure was not interrupted with the departure of BRR.
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