Anna Winoto

Anna Winoto has more than 20 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex development programs in Indonesia. She is also currently engaged in programs in Cambodia and Timor-Leste. Her areas of expertise include public health and nutrition, governance, decentralization, and community-driven and locally led development. She is a skilled facilitator of multi-stakeholder collaboration. She has worked with the national governments of Australia and Indonesia and with UNICEF.

As part of the International Technical Practice, Anna provides strategic and technical advice on a range of issues such as governance, adaptive management, and locally led development. She facilitates knowledge exchange and thought leadership on these issues across programs. She provides technical advice to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Governance Help Desk and the Reference Group on Locally Led Development. Based in Jakarta, Anna represents Abt in Indonesia. She is responsible for building and maintaining priority partnerships with major clients and national partners. She also has a regional role acting as the Contractor Representative for the ACCESS 2 Program in Cambodia.

As team lead, Anna managed and provided strategic direction to KOMPAK, a partnership between the governments of Australia and Indonesia to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians. She oversaw a multidisciplinary team of 150 staff, seven offices, and an annual budget of AU$22 million to deliver fit-for-purpose technical assistance, pilots, capacity development, and research to the Indonesian government. She contributed to KOMPAK’s improved DFAT performance ratings from 2015 to 2021. Before KOMPAK, Anna provided strategic advice to the Ministry of National Development Planning on poverty reduction. Prior to that, she served in several positions in UNICEF Indonesia focusing on child-centered social protection and maternal and child nutrition.

Expertise

• Leadership and strategy
• Governance
• Locally led development
• Organizational and change management
• Partnership

Key Projects

• ACCESS 2, a partnership to improve sustainable services for people with disability and survivors of gender-based violence, Cambodia
• KOMPAK, a partnership to improve basic services and economic opportunities, Indonesia
• Government of Indonesia Frontline Service Delivery Strategy
• PKH Prestasi, a nutrition-focused conditional cash transfer pilot, Indonesia
• Infant Young Child Feeding, UNICEF Indonesia

Publications

• KOMPAK, a partnership to improve basic services and economic opportunities, Indonesia
• Government of Indonesia Frontline Service Delivery Strategy
• PKH Prestasi, a nutrition-focused conditional cash transfer pilot, Indonesia
• Infant Young Child Feeding, UNICEF Indonesia
• National Vitamin A supplementation program, Indonesia

Publications

• Achmad, Maliki, Graham Teskey, Anna Winoto, and Michael Woolcock. 2023. Responding Adaptively to the COVID-19 Crisis in Indonesia: Insights and Implications from an Indonesian Governance Program – Building State Capability. Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development, faculty working paper.
• Anna Winoto and Annemarie Reerink. 11 September 2023. What does locally led development mean in practice.
• Anna Winoto. 12 January 2023. Local leadership in donor-funded programs. DevPolicy. https://devpolicy.org/local-leadership-in-donor-funded-programs-20230112/
• Anna Winoto, “Catalyzing Local Innovation to Improve Services for Indonesia’s Poor, Strategic Review, April 2015
• Fitsum Assefa, Sri Sukotjo (Ninik), Anna Winoto and David Hipgrave, Increased diarrhea following infant formula distribution in 2006 earthquake response in Indonesia: evidence and actions, Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) Field Exchange 34, p30-35, October 2008