The Indonesian government has engaged in several formal community empowerment and poverty alleviation initiatives since 1998. The Kecamatan Development Program (KDP) operated in three phrases beginning in 1998, and the Urban Poverty Program (UPP) in three phases since 2000. Mid-2007 saw the launch of the Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM), an extension of KDP and UPP. The Indonesian government subsequently launched an impact evaluation of these empowerment and alleviation via the PNPM-KDP Impact Evaluation (Survai Evaluasi Dempak PNPM-KDP, or SEDAP).

SEDAP served to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of PNPM and KDP. The 2007 SEDAP served the dual objectives of evaluating the impact of previous interventions while facilitating more thorough analysis of future poverty alleviation efforts. The first objective of the 2007 survey was to provide reference indicators for a baseline survey of PNPM, allowing for thorough evaluation following program implementation. 

The second SEDAP objective was to gather follow-up data to evaluate the impact of KDP. This objective was carried out in two components. First, specific household respondents of the 2002 National Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS) were identified. Second, data was collected from 2002 SUSENAS respondents in sub-districts (kecamatan) targeted, and not targeted, by KDP. SEDAP was fielded from August through September 2007, SEDAP was fielded from August through September 2007, and re-interviews took place February through July 2010. SurveyMETER covered 456 kecamatans and 9,505 households in the targeted provinces.[SM]