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SWITCH – ASIAPOLICY SUPPORT COMPONENT

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What is about?

Create an enabling environment to strengthen or initiate policies helping to mainstream SCP and RE in regional sub-regional and national development programmes.

• To assist stakeholders in the project countries (government, private sector, civil society), in designing and implementing specific policy-oriented activities to shift towards Sustainable Consumption and Production.

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Expected results

Decision makers in the public sector have a better understanding of the benefits of SCP and RE and apply SCP policies.

Inter-ministerial and public-private policy dialogues on SCP is strengthened and institutionalized via formal platforms, learning from existing initiatives such as the Retail Forum in the EU.

SCP is put on the regular agenda of sub-regional policy dialogue platforms.

SWITCH Policy Support Component results are fed into the 10 Year Framework of Programmes so that Governments in the region can receive more tailored support from this global framework to realise the long-term economic and social potential of SCP

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Activities (summary) Capacity Building and Policy Needs Assessment

on SCP (Needs Analysis) Capacity building (SCP planning, Sustainable

Public Procurrement, Sustainable Ventures) Possible sectoral focusHigh level policy workshops

(with parliaments, assemblies etc.) Selection of policy tools Support the development of policy tools (e.g.

regulations, laws, frameworks, standards etc.) Delivering the drafts to competed authorities Creating a group of SCP Experts in Asia

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SWITCH Policy Support Component (regional part) Implementation modality

European CommissionContracting authority

Steering

UNEPImplementing

Steering

Implementation partners

National partnersUN-ESCAP

UNIDOOther UN bodies

“Associates”SWITCH-PSC National parts

SWITCH projectsSWITCH NF

APRSCP

CountriesFinal BeneficiariesExpressing needs

Advising

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Time plan

Year 1: Analysis; Needs; Consultation; Planning

Year 2: Capacity building; Kick-off policy dialogue

Year 3: Policy dialogue; Policy Instruments

Year 4: Networking; Dissemination

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The activities of first year

A_1_1: Identify capacity building needs of decision-makers in the participating countries.

A_1_2: Review the existing policy tools (laws, agreements and voluntary initiatives) that are related to SCP and RE.

A_1_3: Identify clusters of countries with similar problems to tackle and common interests and decide with the countries the detailed implementation plan (what, where and when to do).

Project Management

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How we implement them A_1_1 and A_1_2

One comprehensive study on review of policies and identification of capacity building needs (June-December 2011)

Technical workshop (June 2011 Bangkok), country missions (finalized), desktop reviews (partly finalized), interviews with other regional stakeholders (ongoing)

A_1_3 Consultation with countries; electronic and physical

meetings (August – November 2011) One workshop with SWTICH focal points and other

stakeholders (our workshop today) Implementation plan (January 2012)

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Country missions

Who we met EC delegations. They are fully informed

before the mission and are copied in all communication with out focal points in each country

Ministries: Environment, Planning, Finance, Industry, Agriculture, Trade, Education, Urban Planning, etc.

Agencies: NCPCs, Research Institutes, NGOs SWITCH project beneficiaries Bilateral meetings + One day workshop

with all to collectively identify priorities

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Other work

Establishing an ASEAN Forum on SCP: This work has been started by UNEP before the SWITCH

PSC Now we integrate this work with the PSC First meeting held on April 2011 in Jakarta A background paper for objectives/structure of Forums

was developed Consultation workshop on 27-28 October in Jakarta.

Result: Establishment of the ASEAN Forum on SCP with UNEP as it’s secretariat. SWITCH-PSC expected to be one of the main drivers of Forum’s activities over the next 3 years.

Creating another sub-regional forum for South Asia

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Next steps

Our regional workshops these two days Bi-lateral consultations with countries

(during and after the workshop) Finalization of study (December 2011 –

January 2012) Implementation plan: January 2012