by Kaisar | Jun 23, 2015 | Opportunities, Tenders
Background With the growing awareness on food safety and quality, the establishment of Good Animal Husbandry Practices (GAHP) is very crucial as one approaches in ensuring the production of quality meat and meat products. Food safety should be addressed throughout the food chain from farm to table, that covers the stage from production, processing, storage and distribution. The ASEAN Member States has agreed for the establishment of the ASEAN Good Animal Husbandry Practices (ASEAN-GAHP), focusing on Broiler and Layer. Contemplating the diversity of capability and capacity of AMS, the ASEAN GAHP is developed based on the minimum requirements and commonalities of existing national GAHP in ASEAN, with emphasis on food safety, taking into consideration of basic elements/principles such as biosecurity, animal health and welfare, environmental sustainability, workers’ safety etc. Under the 1st year Project, the 35th ASEAN Ministers for Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) Meeting in 2014 endorsed the ASEAN-GAHP. With the endorsement of the AMAF, this ASEAN-GAHP will facilitate trade; improve the viability of farmers, and to sustain safe food supply as well as to address the environmental sustainability in the region. With the conclusion of the Project Year 1, and following to the decision of the 2nd Meeting of the ASEAN GAHP Project, held on 9-10 October 2013 in Bogor, Indonesia, the remaining years (Year 2 and 3) of the Project would involve the implementation of the activities, both at the regional and national levels which were identified as priority areas in the Strategic Plan. The Regional activities are in support of the harmonisation process and working towards benchmarking of the member states GAHP standard with the ASEAN...
by Kaisar | May 5, 2015 | Services, Technical Reports
The report share lessons about how Indonesia and Cambodia have implemented the Regional Mutual Recognition Arrangement for Tourism Professionals at country level, so this may inform and advance the efforts of other MRAs. This study was conducted in 2012 Download...
by Kaisar | May 3, 2015 | Opportunities, Tenders
I. Background The Roadmap for the ASEAN Community (2009-2015) comprised blueprints to guide the timely implementation of ASEAN’s regional integration agenda. Different mechanisms were utilised to monitor the progress of these integration efforts, including the Community Scorecards and other sector-specific monitoring and surveillance tools. The ASEAN Community Progress Monitoring System (ACPMS) is intended to complement the other monitoring tools in tracking the progress of the ASEAN Community building efforts. As the ACPMS covers broad areas of economic, socio-cultural, and the Millennium Development Goals, the enhanced framework and descriptive indicators of the measured outcomes on the envisaged characteristics of ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community pillars were presented. The two (2) previous editions of the ACPMS have been well received and this prompted the ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) Committee to commit its support for its regular publication. As such, it is necessary to address the bottlenecks that affect its compilation, particularly those at the national level. It would also be worthwhile to consider how the ACPMS can be further enhanced especially in the context of the ASEAN Community 2025 vision and agenda, which will be launched at the 27th ASEAN Summit in November 2015. Despite the initial success of the ACPMS, there remain a number of important issues that need to be addressed in order to further pursue the goal of promoting and enhancing the ACPMS as a supplementary monitoring tool and mechanism, especially in the context of the ASEAN Community 2025 for which specific monitoring mechanisms/tools would be developed and adopted by the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), ASEAN SocioCultural Community (ASCC) and ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC): ACPMS...
by Kaisar | Apr 23, 2015 | News
Taken as group, ASEAN would already be the seventh-largest economy in the world with a combined GDP of $2.4 trillion in 2013, and with a growing population of more than 600 million people, it is a hub of growing consumer demand. While not all ASEAN Member States (AMS) have effective consumer protection legislations and programs in place, ensuring consumer protection in terms of law is of little value unless these are properly enforced. Consumer policy strategy must constantly adapt to the global environment in which consumers live. Fast-evolving technologies are changing citizen’s lives, the way people communicate and their relationship with products. “Development of Public Awareness Models for Consumer Protection,” is an on-going project of AADCP II intended to support the development of more comprehensive consumer awareness and education programs within ASEAN Member States. The 2nd consultative workshop held at the ASEAN Secretariat on April 8-9, 2015 discussed consumer awareness and education models that AMS can follow and guidelines for selecting the appropriate models. http://www.asean.org/news/asean-secretariat-news/item/asean-china-reaffirm-commitment-to-forge-closer-cooperation...
by Kaisar | Apr 23, 2015 | News
29 March 2012 marked the entry into force of the ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement (ACIA). The agreement, signed by the ASEAN Economic Ministers, was in response to the compettive global environment for foreign direct investments with the aim of creating a freer and more open investment regime in ASEAN based on international best practices. ACIA is an enhanced agreement that encompasses 4 pillars, namely: liberalisation, facilitation, protection, and promotion. An important element of ACIA is the protection of investments, including the issue of the settlement of disputes, particularly Investor-to-State dispute. It will ensure that ASEAN remains an attractive destination for investors, taking into account investors’ needs and interests through improved transparency, consistency and detailed mechanisms to address disputes. To improve the understanding of the ACIA provisions among the policy makers, academia and the business sector utilizing the ACIA Guidebook and Handbook for Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA), which were produced under the an earlier AADCP funded project, “Promoting ACIA,” a series of socialisation forums for investors and seminars for frontline staff of ASEAN investment promotion agencies are being held in various ASEAN countries. Jakarta joins Kuala Lumpur and Manila as former hosts to these events. Additional information from the Jakarta forum and seminar on April 15-16, 2015 can be found here. The next ACIA socialisation activities will be held in Brunei International Convention Centre (ICC), Berakas, Brunei Darussalam on May 6-7, 2015 and hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and...
