August 2003, Petter Matthews, Ian Neal, Michael Warner, Andy Tanner / Engineers Against Poverty
Engineers Against Poverty (EAP), with assistance from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), is pioneering the application of a partnership model of social performance within the engineering services sector. The programme will develop and promote strategic multi-sector partnerships - between principal contractors, their clients, government agencies and community groups - with the aim of increasing the contribution made by the engineering industry to the elimination of poverty in emerging economies and developing countries.
A research team comprising staff from EAP, ODI and Balfour Beatty Power Networks (BBPN) visited Indonesia in June 2003 as part of this programme. The objective of the visit was to capture Balfour Beattys experience on the Lot 3 Java-Bali 500kV Transmission Line Construction Project, to analyse it as an example of a major infrastructure project in Indonesia, and make this knowledge available to help identify options for developing a multi-sector partnership project within Balfour Beatty Group (BBG)
