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ASEAN to Step Up Cross-sectoral Cooperation Towards MDGs |
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Jan 18, 2011 |
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Senior officials from ASEAN's various sectors of cooperation met Monday to identify the region's initiatives that cut across the eight categories of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The officials also looked at ways to promote cross-sectoral linkages and coordination to address the issues that face these sectors.
The MDGs are eight internationally-recognised development goals to be achieved by 2015. The meeting is one of ASEAN's efforts to step up coordination among relevant ASEAN sectoral bodies to help accelerate the attainment of the MDGs, many of which resonate with the purposes of ASEAN.
MDGs attainment efforts in ASEAN had before been in silo – each sector's initiative was focused on one goal. With the meeting, the various sectors can support each other and therefore step up the attainment.
At the meeting, the senior officials were joined by the Permanent Representatives to ASEAN, representatives of the Bangkok-based ASEAN Regional Centre of Excellence on MDGs and the UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Centre, and officers from the ASEAN Secretariat.
The participants also reviewed the progress achieved in the attainment of the MDGs in each ASEAN Member States. Significant progress on issues relating to reducing child mortality rate was also noted. The meeting, in addition, underlined means to address cross-sectoral issues of climate change, climate-related disasters, food security, HIV and AIDS, and emerging infectious diseases in the region that need the attention of ASEAN in accelerating the MDGs attainment.
Chairing the meeting, the Permanent Representative of Indonesia to ASEAN, Ambassador I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, said that the meeting was essential to address issues of priority concerns to the people. Ambassador Ngurah is also the Chairman of the Committee of Permanent Representative to ASEAN. The Ambassador's statement was in line with Indonesia's ASEAN Chairmanship priority of making ASEAN a more people-centred organisation, as stipulated in the ASEAN Charter. A timely attainment of the MDGs by all ASEAN Member States, he also said, would be in line with the goals and objectives of the ASEAN Community.
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ASEAN to Step Up Cross-sectoral Cooperation Towards MDGs Senior officials from ASEAN's various sectors of cooperation met Monday to identify the region's initiatives that cut across the eight categories of the Millennium Development Goals MDGs The officials also looked at ways to promote cross-sectoral linkages and coordination to address the issues that face these sectors
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