by Irene Wijaya | Apr 2, 2020 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Completed As the implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC 2025) progresses, it is important to ensure the effectiveness of the strategies to advance the 15 initiatives under the five strategic areas. To ensure robust performance management as part of the overall implementation strategy, this mid-term review (MTR) took stock of the implementation progress of MPAC 2025 to date, drew lessons learned by identifying drivers, success factors, constraints and challenges to achieve the intended outcomes. To ensure synergies, the MTR also assessed relevance of the MPAC 2025 initiatives and activities against the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025, as well as other regional and sub-regional connectivity-related projects. It also assessed the institutional mechanisms and identify the linkages between the MPAC 2025 and relevant ASEAN sectoral work plans to make concrete and practical recommendations to boost implementation of MPAC 2025 towards the ASEAN Community Vision 2025. At the end, a set of concrete, actionable recommendations to improve overall implementation of MPAC 2025 have been identified. Download the Executive Summary and Infographics of the Mid Term Review of MPAC 2025 here. For more information, please visit the ASEAN Connectivity website. Relevant projects: Formulation of Post-2015 Agenda for ASEAN Connectivity Operational Guide for Monitoring, Review, and Evaluation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity...
by Irene Wijaya | Apr 2, 2020 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Ongoing. The ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Strategy (ASUS) was launched at the 22nd ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) Meeting on 13 November 2018. Since then, ASUS and its accompanying toolkits have been disseminated to city networks in ASEAN. This project will select a number of interested ASEAN cities based on an objective set of criteria, and provide support to these participating cities to undertake the necessary preparations for implementation of a relevant ASUS action plan. While its main objective is to promote implementation, the support also aims to collect, document and disseminate lessons learned from the preparation process to encourage other cities to adopt ASUS into their urban development plans. The project will also help increase knowledge on the state of urbanisation in the region. This project is being implemented by UN-Habitat. More info on ASUS is available at the ASEAN Connectivity website. Related project: Study to Advance Sustainable Urbanisation in...
by Irene Wijaya | Mar 27, 2020 | Consumer Protection, Technical Reports
This Roadmap aims to strengthen consumer protection regimes in the ASEAN Member States and support the ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection (ACCP) in promoting awareness and garnering support for ASEAN’s consumer protection capacity development agenda. It serves as an action plan for capacity building at the regional level, sub-regional and national levels, which, if implemented, will provide ASEAN consumers with world-class levels of consumer policy, institutions and laws. The Roadmap 2025 which comprised of among others a regional roadmap, a regional brief, a policy brief, and 10 country reports, was developed through extensive research, field work and surveys of capacity building needs. The Roadmap 2025 includes a schedule of proposed capacity building measures which is based on a study of common areas of needs identified among ASEAN consumer protection authorities. The Roadmap further outlines the delivery approach to capacity building, and provides a timeframe for implementation. The implementation level (regional or sub-regional) is described for each activity to ensure effective and efficient management and delivery of capacity building plans and programs. The successful implementation of the initiatives under the Roadmap 2025, will require coordinated approach amongst ASEAN’s consumer protection authorities, consumer protection associations, development partners and other relevant stakeholders. Downloads: Roadmap 2025 (PDF, 1.2 MB) Policy Brief (PDF, 0.6 MB) Regional Brief (PDF, 1.4...
by Irene Wijaya | Dec 6, 2019 | Agriculture, Technical Reports
The ASEAN Good Agricultural Practices (ASEAN GAP) is a voluntary standard for the production, harvesting and post-harvest handling of fruits and vegetables in the region. Its objective is to enhance ASEAN agricultural products quality and competitiveness on the international market as well as on the ASEAN market by promoting ASEAN GAP. In order to implement the ASEAN GAP, there is a need to establish a common certification and accreditation systems, which will provide reference for implementation and application of ASEAN GAP among stakeholders, including regulators, auditors, producers, and consumers in the region. These manuals defines such systems: The Official Control Manual. This “Preambles” document aims at giving the ASEAN Member States (AMS) wishing to implement the ASEAN GAP accreditation and certification systems an overview of the regulatory framework to study before the implementation. It also contains recommendations concerning national regulations contents and stakeholder’s organisation to insure equivalency between the AMS. The Certification Manual. This Manual serves as guidelines and references for the conduct of national GAP certification by Control Authorities or Control Bodies among the AMS with the aim of facilitating intra and extra regional trade of products originated from GAP certified farms. This Manual was developed based on the understanding that national regulatory and food safety requirements in each AMS which should take precedent. The notes and examples in this Manual aim to provide additional information intended to assist in understanding and use of the document. This Manual may also serve as one of the references for the development of Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) for inspection and certification systems on GAP production. Download the manuals here: ASEAN GAP...
by Irene Wijaya | Nov 5, 2019 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Ongoing. The ASEAN economy has flourished over the past 50 years and is now more than 100 times larger since the inception of ASEAN in 1967. In 2018, ASEAN GDP accounted for 3% of global GDP and will continue moving in an upward trend, hinged on stronger integration and connectivity between ASEAN Member States (AMS). ASEAN needs efficient logistics services to sustain its economic growth and enhance its competitiveness, by lowering supply chain costs and improving supply chain’s speed and reliability in each AMS. This project will identify a number of priority trade routes, and build a database of relevant information on these routes to help ASEAN Member States determine bottlenecks and identify specific priorities to enhance connectivity within these routes. It will also develop an ASEAN supply-chain framework. The framework is a necessary first step to better understand ASEAN’s supply chain performance gaps, identify opportunities as well as underlying issues and challenges, and devise a region-wide action plan to address them. The framework will also support the gathering of data on supply-chain performance and bottlenecks for specific trade routes or economic corridors as discussed above, towards an integrated approach to the development of trade...
