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The ASEAN-Australia
Economic Cooperation Program (AAECP) promotes cooperation between Australia
and ASEAN in areas of agreed regional development priority.
The ASEAN Australia Development Cooperation Program is a A$45 million dollar project distributing money to all member countries of ASEAN. It is managed by a company called ACIL Australia. Most of this money, A$37 million, goes to two major projects. The first is the Program Stream Project, which started in 2002. The other is the Regional Partnership Scheme Program, which started in 2003. Both projects will continue until 2008. These two projects provide money to a lot of smaller projects. These projects cover a range of areas from agriculture to electronics, from commerce to fish and fisheries, customs, standards, forestry, skills development and counter terrorism. There are 10 projects up to three years long costing between A$1-2 million and there are 17 smaller projects of A$500,000 lasting up to two years. Greg can explained this with an example, "... I think a good example is in the fruits and vegetables projects under the Program Stream where one of the aims is to develop ASEAN Good Agriculture Practice, or GAP. A GAP would be an all ASEAN standard for fruits and vegetables. The advantages of this to Indonesia would be that when Indonesia wishes to export fruits and vegetables to anywhere in the world it would be under an agricultural standard that is common for 519 million people, so would include all of the countries. And so ASEAN as an exporting block would have advantages and Indonesia would partake of those benefits. ... in this world today the European Union has got a European Union GAP. America has got an American GAP. So big groups of countries and big exporters have a GAP and this project is actually about developing one for ASEAN and that is certainly helping Indonesia". To learn more about these and other AusAID projects have a look at the KGRE website AusAID Pages. ASEAN-Australia Development Cooperation
Program (AADCP) AADCP Regional Partnerships Scheme (RPS)RPS will support the implementation of a range of smaller scale regional development activities, developed by ASEAN and Australian entities, to be funded in rounds over a period of five years (A$15 million). Such activities could include: enhancing food safety in the region by assisting the development of appropriate regional regulations and administrative infrastructure, pest and disease management activities aimed at strengthening quarantine systems in ASEAN to meet international trade standards, and training programs to strengthen the effectiveness of ASEAN employer organisations. AADCP Program StreamThe Program Stream with a budget of A$20 million, consists of two sub-programs, which in turn comprise a series of smaller joint ASEAN-Australian activities contributing to the broader program objectives. These sub-programs will be called: “Strengthening ASEAN Economic Integration” and “Enhancing ASEAN Competitiveness”. AADCP Regional Economic Policy Support Facility (REPSF)REPSF will support a range of priority regional policy research activities, to be undertaken by ASEAN and Australian research entities. It will be implemented over a period of five years and will have a budget of around A$9 million. Areas of research could include: examination of regional social protection and poverty alleviation approaches, analysis of economic integration strategies for the new members of ASEAN, and issues pertaining to AFTA-CER integration. |
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