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

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(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

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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

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Development

(Purpose 1)

Characteristic 2: Social Welfare and Protection

(Purpose 2)

Characteristic 3: Social Justice

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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

one vision one identity

one community

THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS

ASEAN Experience: Integrating ASEAN Initiative

(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