AsiaDHRRA, with priorities on deliverables of the ASEAN Rural Development Master Plan (RDMP), participates in the eighteenth Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (18th SOC-COM) with the theme “Promoting and Implementing the Care Economy in ASEAN”, on 27 May 2022, via online.
The ASEAN Secretariat organised the 18th Coordinating Conference on the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (18th SOC-COM) on 24 May under the theme “Promoting and Implementing the Care Economy in ASEAN.”
The discussions focused on implementing the ASEAN Comprehensive Framework on Care Economy (ACFCE) which was adopted at the 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits last year. Cooperation in promoting and implementing initiatives and investments to support the well-being of people, communities, and sectors across ASEAN through care work and the care economy, was among the major deliberations.
ASEAN’s efforts towards the advancement of a care economy will focus on six broad strategies that touches on several important areas where economic activities can be generated and benefit vulnerable. These include populations and segments of society, including seniors, persons affected by disasters, families, and those affected by the environment. The conference noted several productive suggestions on the platform and mechanism to anchor ACFCE, and the activities that can be implemented to give this deliverable a head start.
In addition to the Care Economy, the conference also updated on the priorities and deliverables under the ASCC under this year’s ASEAN Chairmanship theme “ASEAN A.C.T.: Addressing Challenges Together”, and other cross pillar issues and coordination.
The priorities and deliverables in particular were on the matters related to the ASEAN Comprehensive Recovery Framework, Consolidated Strategy on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, ASEAN Community Post-2025 Vision, Bandar Seri Begawan Declaration on the Strategic and Holistic Initiative to Link ASEAN Responses to Emergencies and Disasters (ASEAN SHIELD), as well as the Roadmap of ASEAN Declaration on Human Resources Development for the Changing World of Work.
Relevant article here: https://asean.org/18th-coordinating-conference-on-ascc-discusses-implementation-of-comprehensive-care-economy-in-asean/
