Dedicated Pages for JAIF Projects

Tomato production is threatened by the spread of invasive Tuta absoluta, a serious pest that can cause up to 100% losses, leading to an increase in tomato market prices in affected countries.
Through regional cooperation between ASEAN Member States and WorldVeg, the project set up pest surveillance at possible entry points, and built the capacity of quarantine and plant protection offices to setup appropriate T. absoluta monitoring systems.

The project “Strengthening Capacity Development for Local Governments in ASEAN to Tackle Microplastics and Water Pollution through Decentralised Wastewater Management Approach” (PoDIWM-2) is a continuation and extension of PoDIWM. PoDIWM-2 is an initiative to address the challenges ASEAN cities face in providing safe, affordable, and sustainable domestic wastewater treatment systems. It also aims to address the emerging challenge of microplastic pollution in the region. It is a response to the shortcomings of conventional centralised approaches to wastewater management, which have proven to be costly and less adaptable to climate change and natural disasters.

Partnership to Strengthen Transparency for co-Innovation (PaSTI) was established as one of the pillar activities on climate change in the “ASEAN-Japan Environmental Cooperation Initiative” presented by the Prime Minister of Japan in 2017.
The Phase 2 of the PaSTI-JAIF Project aims to develop Facility Level M&R Guidelines for ASEAN region following the “Road Map for Designing Facility Level GHG M&R Guideline for ASEAN Region” which were developed in the Phase 1. The developed guidelines can serve as a reference for ASEAN Member States for developing their own transparency systems involving the state and non-state actors.

The ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry are a roadmap for how private investors and governments can ensure investments in any ASEAN Member State are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable and inclusive.
This project on Creation and Testing of Learning and Accreditation Programme to Implement the ASEAN-RAI Guidelines is supported by the Government of Japan through the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF).

The inadequacy in trained human resources and capacities on taxonomy has been stressed as one of the obstacles in the implementation of commitments to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), especially in the ASEAN region. Lack of scientific information on biodiversity in this region is a crucial issue in the assessment and prediction of biodiversity changes, caused mainly by the lack of taxonomic capacity in data collection and analysis. To meet this challenge, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and Japan have partnered to strengthen taxonomic capacities in the ASEAN region, through projects funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF).

This Documentary is the third set of productions of the ASEAN Now and the Future project which is developed based on the unique perspectives of each country’s broadcasters. This time, it touches on the problem of marine plastic waste. More than half of the plastic is discharged from Asian countries. The ASEAN member countries of Indonesia, the Philippines, Viet Nam, and Thailand occupy top positions in the world ranking. In the Documentary, we see the actual situation of each country.

Effective and safe drugs are essential to maintaining and improving public health, and it is the responsibility of the world’s regulators to ensure swift access. Therefore, global harmonisation of technical regulatory requirements for drug product approvals and cooperation among regulatory authorities is essential to realise more efficient product reviews and streamlined exchange of critical safety information.
In 2022, the Indonesian FDA, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA, Japan) and Universitas Indonesia (UI) by the support of Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) conduct a collaboration programme which is called ASEAN-Japan Pharmaceuticals Training in Risk Management Plan. This project aims to advance regulatory harmonisation activities concerning drug products among the ASEAN Member States.

The GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) using Space Satellite System, standardized by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has been introduced in several countries of the world as a redundancy of conventional ground-based navigation system.
GNSS Implementation Plan Training in ASEAN (GIPTA) aimed for relevant ASEAN civil aviation personnel to obtain knowledge and skills for introduction plan of GNSS starting from the year 2020. After this training, safe, efficient, reliable and cost-effective air navigation service provided by GNSS is expected to be ready in ASEAN region as a whole.

Japanese Standards Association (JSA) administers “QC KENTEI and the first examination was conducted in 2005. Initially, QC KENTEI is provided for Japanese only.
For the first time QC KENTEI examination is conducted in Malaysia. Supported by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF), JSA collaborated with Standards Malaysia and Universiti Kuala Lumpur MITEC to offer QC KENTEI qualifying examination, opened to all qualified Malaysian workers with no charge.

Japanese Standards Association (JSA) administers “QC KENTEI and the first examination was conducted in 2005. Initially, QC KENTEI is provided for Japanese only.
For the first time QC KENTEI examination is conducted in Viet Nam. Supported by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF), JSA collaborated with Quality Training Centre (STAMEQ) to offer QC KENTEI qualifying examination, opened to all qualified Viet Nam workers with no charge.

Japanese Standards Association (JSA), under the ASEAN cooperation project Development of ASEAN Common Qualification Scheme for Quality Control Experts supported by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund, (JAIF), supports the ASEAN countries and contributes to the promotion of economic growth of the ASEAN countries by utilizing our experience in quality control education, which is QC KENTEI (Quality Management and Quality Control Examination).

JBMIA were approved subsidiary program by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan and have been entrusted with JAIF Project since 2018 to carry out project of Capacity Building for Conformity Assessment for ITE in ASEAN Member States and ASEAN Japan Partnership Program for EMC and Safety Conformity Assessment of Multimedia Equipment.