1 Trade promotion through standardisation in the South and South East Asia region SESA programme.

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Trade promotion through standardisation in the South and

South East Asia region

SESA programme

Agreement with SidaSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency

SESA Programme part of Swedish Government’s strategy for Global Politics for development (PGU)

SESA countries: Owner and implementer of activities

SIS: Receiver of funds and facilitator

Sida: Financial support until 31st December 2014

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SESA programme participants

National Standards Organisations in 8 SESA countries*

Private Companies

Organisations and NGOs (universitites)

Business Councils, Chambers of Commerce

Swedish Standards Institute, SIS

CUTS International, Vietnam

South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment, SAWTEE

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida

* Nepal, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh

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Key challenges identified

SESA countries need to become ”standard setters” and not only ”standard takers”

International standards need to be trade supportive not trade barriers

Standard setting involvement will enhance possibilities for effective implementation of international standards on a national level

International standards – to become applicable and relevant to SESA countries

International standards – support local private companies competitiveness on global markets

Support a more active participation by SESA private sector to reach applicable international standards than can be implemented in the countries

Standard implementation – to take a standard from an abstract to a more practical and applicable level in the SESA countries

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Programme Development Objectives

The programme aim to support a long term contribution to:

(a timeframe more than 10 years)

Good environmental practice promoted with ISO standards in the SESA countries

Reduced environmental impact from production in the SESA countries

Improved trade opportunities for the SESA countries

Improved integration of the SESA countries in the global markets

ISO standards provide inputs for development of national legislations in SESA countries

Improved stakeholder driven standardisation process within SESA countries

Increased Global Relevance of ISO standards

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Programme Objective (Medium-term outcome):(a timeframe of around 5-10 years)

Enhanced capacity of NSBs in partner countries and selected stakeholders in ISO standard setting and

implementation processes*

* standard setting and standard implementation will be examplified by the case studies on ISO standard on Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy and ISO standard on Carbon Footprint of Products.

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So what are we doing within the

SESA programme?

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STANDARD SETTING:

Increase capacity to become more actively involved in the development of ISO standards.

Increase the cooperation between National Standardisation organisations and privat/public sector

– ISO 13065 Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy

STANDARD IMPLEMENTATION:

Strengthen capacity in the practical usage of ISO standards and development of guidelines for standard implementation

– ISO/TS 14067 Carbon Footprint of Products

Two components:

Standard setting activities

Standard implementation

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Main objectives for the SESA Programme(a timeframe within the SESA programme period)

Short term objective 1:

Enhanced competence among NSBs in the SESA region* in leading, and execution of, standard setting

processes in a participatory cooperation with the private and public sector on a national and an

international level.

*Countries included in the programme are

Pakistan, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka

Target groups are National Standards Bodies, NSBs

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Enhanced competence among selected SESA region stakeholders** in order to participate effectively in

national and international standard setting processes

** stakeholders and target group are: NGOs, private companies, Chamber of Commerce, Business Councils , Federations, Policy institutions, Universities etc.

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Strengthened competence among NSBs in standard implementation* to be able to use ISO standards

*limited to implementation of ISO 14067, Carbon Footprint of products

Target groups are National Standards Bodies, NSBs

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Strengthend competence among selected companies in standard implementation* to be able to use ISO

standards

*limited to implementation of ISO14067, Carbon Footprint of Products

Target group is companies interested in CFP implementation and producing the selected product/service for each country

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Strengthened competence among selected programme participants** in standard implementation* to be able to

use ISO standards

*limited to implementation of ISO14067, Carbon Footprint of Products

**e.g. federations, associations, policy institutions, chamber of commerce, NGOs, universities

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How to practically work with standardisation?

Importance to work on all levels:

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National activities – SESA

To reassure the most suitable activities are implemented according to the national situation and

systems – identified by the participants in each country

Approved by Sida in March 2013

Is there a need for a regional perspective with focus on

standardisation?

in the Mekong/ASEAN region

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QUESTIONS?

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