by Irene Wijaya | Apr 15, 2016 | Projects, Services
Status: ongoing The ASEAN Tourism Ministers (ATM) signed the Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) on Tourism Professionals (TP) on 9 November 2012. This instrument aims to facilitate the mobility of tourism professionals within the region. In 2010, the ATM endorsed the MRA Follow-up Implementation Requirements which includes the Establishment of aRegional Secretariat that would promote implementation of the MRA-TP by providing support for its operations and management as well as implementation of related projects and activities. Currently, preparatory work for the Regional Secretariat establishment are being managed by the ICT and Tourism Division of the ASEAN Secretariat. These include (1) monitoring the progress of signing of the Agreement for the establishment of the Regional Secretariat, (2) development of the ASEAN Tourism Professionals Registration System (ATPRS), (3) provision of support in the preparation of the convening of an International Conference in mid-2016, and (4) oversight functions to ensure proper utilisation of the toolboxes for tourism labour divisions, including training of Master Trainers and Master Assessors. In order to facilitate the transfer from the ICT & Tourism Division to the Regional Secretariat, an Ad-Hoc team is currently in place to implement these tasks. This project supports the establishment of the Regional Secretariat through provision of funding for the Ad-hoc Team. It also provided partial support for undertaking the International Conference on MRA-TP, which took place in Jakarta Indonesia in August...
by Irene Wijaya | Apr 15, 2016 | Projects, Services
Status: Completed. This project aims to develop the third set of training toolboxes for the travel agencies and tour operations divisions. At the end of this project, there will be a complete set of 242 toolboxes for the various tourism divisions as required by the Common ASEAN Tourism Curriculum (CATC). The toolboxes contain resources/manuals that will be directly used by tourism training and education institutions in ASEAN Member States in delivering standardised competency-based training under the MRA on Tourism Professionals. This project was completed in 2016. For more info on the toolboxes, please contact the ICT and Tourism Division of the ASEAN Secretariat, or go to the ASEAN Tourism Professionals Registration System (ATPRS). Related project: Toolbox Development for Tourism Div.: Front Office, F&B Services, Food Production Toolbox Development For Housekeeping Tourism Labour Division Process refinement and training of ASEAN Tourism Master Trainers and Master...
by Irene Wijaya | Feb 18, 2016 | Financial Integration, Projects
Status: Completed This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Central Banks/Monetary Authority from certain ASEAN member states to implement strategies and plans to achieve the objectives of financial integration under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The project comprises a series of customised learning programmes for BCLMV following the ASEAN Banking Integration Framework Learning Roadmap (ALR) namely: (i) Layer 1: Fundamentals of Financial Markets which set the foundation that banks operate in a bigger environment; (ii) Layer 2: Business of Banking to know the risks and contemporaneous issues faced by banks; (iii) Layer 3: Banking, Business Lines and Interaction with Other Sub-Markets to understand the implication that banks interact with other financial sub-markets; and (iv) Layer 4: Systemic Risk and Financial Stability to appreciate the key consequences of regional integration and systemic risk. In 2016, the four training programmes were conducted in collaboration with the South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This project concluded in November 2016. This project follows from the Capacity Building for ASEAN Financial Integration Framework project that concluded in 2014. For more information, please contact Financial Integration Division of the ASEAN...
