EU-ASEAN COMPASS. <EU-ASEAN Capacity Building Project for Monitoring Integration Progress and Statistics> 29 October 2013

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1 EU-ASEAN COMPASS <EU-ASEAN Capacity Building Project for Monitoring Integration Progress and Statistics> 29 October 2013 Vilailuk Tiranutti, PhD EU Delegation Bangkok, On behalf of Ms. Cecile Leroy, EU Delegation Jakarta. COMPASS Project Description Summary Based in the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office (AIMO) and ASEANstats, Jakarta. Project is managed by the EU Delegation in Jakarta, Indonesia. will build on past EASCAB <EU-ASEAN Statistical Capacity Building programme: (Jan.2009-Jan. 2012): EUR 6 million> (also managed by the EUDel in Jakarta) to start by end of 2013 <now revised to tentatively April 2014> Implementation Period: 4 years (48 months) Budget (EU contribution): 7.5 Million euro Objectives: Strengthening of ASEAN Capacity for regional statistics and integration monitoring. Strengthening of regional harmonisation of statistics Strengthening of integration monitoring Supply of IT to CLMV countries and ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office (AIMO)/ASEANstats 1

2 COMPASS - Beneficiaries Main Data users Political leaders Civil society organisations Think tanks Targeted Beneficiaries ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office (AIMO) ASEANstats Specific divisions of ASEAN Secretariat i.e. trade, services, investment etc. The private sectors ASEAN Community Statistical System Committee Citizens of ASEAN ASEAN National Statistical Offices Other relevant national institutions e.g. customs authorities, central banks, other agencies in charge of production and dissemination of ASEAN statistics etc. Components: A: ASEAN Community Statistical ti ti System Committee B: Strengthened capacity of the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office to monitor the process and results of regional integration on behalf of the ASEAN Member States 2

3 Key expected results A: A: ASEAN Community Statistical System work plan implemented. A1: Strengthened and more sustainable ASEAN Community Statistical System institutional framework A2: Improved statistics in terms of availability, quality, comparability, as well as dissemination and communication in key areas (International Merchandise Trade Statistics, Foreign Direct Investment Statistics, Statistics in International Trade in Services) A3: Narrowed gaps between ASEAN Member States in their capacities to compile statistics through additional specific technical cooperation, access to statistical higher education for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam staff, support to the ASEANhelps-ASEAN scheme, and upgraded information and communication technology equipment Activities: A: ASEAN Community Statistical System Committee: Technical Cooperation to provide advisory services, studies, workshops, to key officials of ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Secretariat officers (National Statistical Offices, Customs, Central Banks, ASEANstats); t Activities to narrow the development gaps between the most developed ASEAN Member States and Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Viet Nam <CLMV>: - A facility to support short term mobility between ASEAN countries, where staff from more developed countries can deliver training on the spot in less developed countries, and where national staff can be sent for short term either to support ASEANstats especially in times of peak activities and/or to receive on-the-job training; - A facility that will support a long-term human resource development programme to allow staff from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam (CLMV) to access higher education curriculum in statistics in other ASEAN Member States; The programme will also provide information and communication technology equipment to the less developed countries, in particular Myanmar, and to ASEANstats in ASEAN Secretariat (to continue building the regional data exchange system). 3

4 Key Expected Results B: B: Strengthened capacity of the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office to monitor regional integration processes and results on behalf of ASEAN MS B1. ASEAN institutional framework for integration monitoring developed; B2. Enhanced capacity to collect non-statistical data and to analyse available ailable statistical and non-statistical data and report on the regional integration policy implementation process and its impact; B: Strengthened capacity of the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office to monitor regional integration activities : Technical Cooperation to provide advisory services, studies, study tours, seminars and workshops, working groups' activities, trainings, in regional integration monitoring methodologies and institutional strengthening, in particular to: - Support the development of the institutional framework for ASEAN monitoring; - Strengthen th the capacity to define regional integration, ti monitoring indicator, enhance the management and analysis of data, to regularly publish monitoring reports (e.g. macroeconomic monitoring report, ASEAN scorecards). The programme will also provide information and communication technology equipment to the ASEAN Integration Monitoring Office. 4

5 Timeline: Procurement notice published on 15 October 2013 Provisional date of invitation to tender: 29/11/2013 Provisional commencement date of the contract: 02/05/2014 For further details, contact: Ms. Cecile Leroy Programme Officer EU Delegation Jakarta THANK YOU!!! 5