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.
-->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).