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one vision one identity
one community
THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS
ASEAN Experience: Initiative for ASEAN Integration
(IAI) and Narrowing the Development Gap in
Health
5 August 2013
Presented by:
Ms. Alicia dela Rosa Bala Deputy Secretary General of the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
A quick look at ASEAN Community building
ASEAN: a people-oriented Community
Narrowing the Development GAP (NDG)
ASEAN
Political-Security
Community
(APSC)
ASEAN
Economic
Community
(AEC)
ASEAN
Socio-Cultural
Community
(ASCC)
ASCC Goals, Purpose and Significance
• building an ASEAN Community of an enduring solidarity and unity forged by a common identity
• building a inclusive and harmonious caring and sharing society
• an enhanced well-being, livelihood, and welfare of the peoples
Primary Goal
“to contribute to realising a people-centred and socially responsible ASEAN Community by forging a common identity and building a caring and sharing society.”
ASCC Blueprint
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Human Development
Social Welfare and
Protection
Social Justice and Rights
Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
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Enhancing the well-being and the livelihood of the peoples of ASEAN through:
• alleviating poverty • ensuring social welfare
and protection • building a safe, secure
and drug free environment
• enhancing disaster resilience
• addressing health development concerns
The Key Bodies with Coordination Functions
• Deliberates, provides policy guidance and takes decisions on key issues pertaining to realize objectives of ASEAN.
• Instructs relevant Ministers in each of the Councils to address the important issues that cut across the Community Councils.
ASEAN Summits
• Coordinates with the ASEAN Community Councils for policy coherence, efficiencyand cooperation among them; ACC
• Implement ASEAN Summit Decisions
• Coordinate sectors and cross-cutting issues ASCC Council
• Supports the work of the ASEAN Community Councils and Sectoral Ministerial Bodies, and coordinates with the ASEAN National Secretariats CPR
• Serve as the national focal points for ASEAN matters in their respective Member States, and shall work closely with the CPR in identifying and addressing cross-sectoral issues
ASEAN Nat Secs
ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting (AHMM)
Senior Officials on Health Development (SOMHD)
6 ASEAN Working Groups
4 Newer ASEAN Task Forces
Networks, Special Collaborations &
Initiatives
Governance Framework in ASEAN Health Development
Health and Communicable Diseases Division,
ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta
Where is Health in the ASCC Blueprint?
ASCC Primary Goal
Characteristic 1: Human
Development
(Purpose 1)
Characteristic 2: Social Welfare and Protection
(Purpose 2)
Characteristic 3: Social Justice
and Rights
(Purpose 3)
Characteristic 4: Ensuring Environmental
Sustainability
(Purpose 4)
Characteristic 5: Building the ASEAN
Identity
(Purpose 5)
Characteristic 6: Narrowing the
Development Gap
(Purpose 6)
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55 Health Action Lines
ASEAN Health Programmes and Priorities (2010-2015)
1. ASEAN Strategic Framework on Health Development (2010-2015) based on 55 health action lines focuses on: – Migrants’ Health Plan of Actions – Increase Access to Health Services Plan of Action including
Universal Health Coverage – HIV and AIDS – Non-communicable Diseases – Mental Health – Maternal and Child Health – Food Safety – Communicable/Emerging Infectious Diseases – Pandemics – Food Safety – Traditional Medicine – Pharmaceutical Development
Cross-cutting Concerns of Health and Non-Health Sectors in ASEAN
• Social Welfare, Labour, Migrant Workers, Poverty – Migrants’ Health, Universal Health Coverage, HIV & AIDS in the
Workplace, Communicable/Emerging Infectious Disease in specific populations in specific geographic areas, Health System’s Development
• Financing, Policy Planning - Health in All Policies; Social Determinants in Health, NCDs
• Access and Provision of Health Services & Medicines - Coordination of public health with food and drug regulation
• Human Resource Development – Minimum standards or curriculum on health personnel (eg. skilled
birth attendants’ curriculum in ASEAN) coordinated with academic institutions
• Animal and Human Health Collaboration – Concerns on zoonosis or sources of infection from animal to human
(eg. avian influenza, A H1N1, joint surveillance)
Non-health Sector Implications to Health? • Disaster management
– Provision of mental health and other psycho-social interventions during post-disaster management
• Food security – Integration of nutrition to food security framework or
relationship with farm to food-on-the table process
• Health security including Pandemic – Pandemic Influenza as a non-traditional security threat beyond
or along borders
• Social Protection – Include concerns on migrants’ health
• Climate change/Environmental challenges – Exposure to vector-borne diseases (dengue, malaria) prolonged
Cross-cutting Concerns of Health and Non-Health Sectors in ASEAN
Integrating ASEAN Initiative (IAI):
– Launched by ASEAN Summit 2000
– Strategic Framework and IAI Work Plan 2 (2009-2015)
– Mechanism for ASEAN-6 to assist CLMV countries
– Under the ASEAN Economic Community based on organizational structure
• GOALS:
– Cooperation and mutual assistance to narrow the development gap (NDG) among AMS and between ASEAN and the rest of the world
– Assist the CLMV countries to meet ASEAN-wide targets and goal of ASEAN Community
Initiative for ASEAN Integration:
Background
Initiative for ASEAN Integration: Implementation Arrangement
• Work Plan aligned with AEC, APSC and ASCC • IAI Task Force • Work Plan complements the direct interventions of specific
ASEAN Bodies: – Economic Interventions (eg. free flow of services, goods;
intellectual property rights) – Human Development Initiatives (eg. advancing education,
human resource development) – Health Related Initiatives (eg. food safety, healthy lifestyle,
collaboration with partners like WHO, HIV and AIDS, EIDs, drug-free ASEAN)
– Social Justice and Rights (eg. welfare of women, children, elderly, PWDs)
– Political Cooperation – Security Cooperation
• CLMV Priority Action List
Concluding Messages • ASEAN Leaders have recognized the need to address the
development gap of the ASEAN-6 with the Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam
• ASCC’s goals and implementing mechanisms pursue constant cross-sector collaboration to address the non-health implications of socio-cultural sectors
• ASEAN has mechanisms for linking key political and sectoral bodies on regional concerns that are cross-cutting
• Specific ASEAN programs such as IAI has the mandate to align action lines across community pillars
• IAI also acts as a platform for aligning NDG initiatives in the CLMV countries with the programmes of the socio-cultural, political-security, and economic pillars; Priority health concerns are included in the current IAI Work Plan
• ASEAN Secretariat through the Health and Communicable Diseases Division (HCDD) can liaise with other sectoral bodies in coordinating non-health sector initiatives with cross-cutting concerns or implications to health