APEC SECRETARIAT PRESENTATION

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APEC SECRETARIAT PRESENTATION

• GREETINGS TO ALL
• PARTICIPANTS OF
• THE ALCoB CONFERENCE
• 17-19 JANUARY 2004
• SEOUL, KOREA

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Scope of Presentation

• Origins, History and Structure of APEC
• The APEC Secretariat
• Human Resource Working Group
• Education Priorities
• Themes and Sub-themes APEC 2004-Chile
• Project Management

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ORIGINS OF APEC

• Established 1989
• 12 Founding Members

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MEMBERSHIP

• Australia
• Brunei Darussalam
• Canada
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Republic of Korea
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• United States of America

• China (1991)
• Chinese Taipei (1991)
• Hong Kong, China (1991)

• Mexico (1993)
• Papua New Guinea (1993)

• Chile (1994)

• Peru (1998)
• Russia (1998)
• Viet Nam (1998)

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GLOBAL INFLUENCE

• Major contributor of global prosperity and
  stability
• Roughly one third of the worlds population
• Combined GDP of approx US18 trillion (More than
  half of total world production)
• 47 of global trade

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UNIQUE FEATURES

• First Information Age multilateral institution
• Consultative process with 21 economies committed
  to building strong Asia Pacific Community
• Committed to unilateral liberalisation
• Obligations undertaken on voluntary basis
• Decision making by consensus

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UNIQUE FEATURES...contd

• Small staff and small budget
• Transparency private sector, industry and
  academia contribute to ideas and implementation
• APEC is fast e.g. e-Commerce readiness initiative
• Not a donor organisation but catalyst for good
  policies and economic and technical cooperation

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PROMOTING GROWTH

• Promote good policies and facilitate cooperation
  in the region
• Project APECs influence outside the region

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APECS VISION

• A community of Asia-Pacific economies, based on
  the spirit of openness and partnership which
  would make cooperative efforts to
• address the challenges of change
• Reduce barriers to trade and investment to enable
  free flow of goods, services and capital
• work towards broadly based economic growth,
  higher living and educational standards and
  sustainable growth that respects the environment
  

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BOGOR GOALS

• Free and open trade and investment in the
  Asia-Pacific by 2010 for developed member
  economies and 2020 for developing ones

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ROAD MAPS

• Osaka Action Agenda
• Manila Action Plan
• Individual Action Plans

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APECS THREE PILLARS

• Trade and Investment Liberalisation
• Business Facilitation
• Economic and Technical Cooperation

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ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Leaders Meeting
APEC Business Advisory Council
Sectoral Ministerial Meetings
Ministerial Meeting
Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)
APEC Secretariat
Working Groups (11)
Economic Committee (EC)
Budget Management Committee (BMC)
SOM Special Task Groups
Committee on Trade Investment (CTI)
SOM Committee on ECOTECH (ESC)

• Energy (since 1990)
• Fisheries (since 1991)
• Human Resources
• Development (since 1990)
• Industrial Science and
• Technology (since 1990)
• Marine Resources
• Conservation (since 1990)
• Telecommunications
• Information (since 1990)
• Trade Promotion (since 1990)
• Transportation (since 1991)
• Tourism (since 1991)
• Agricultural Technical Cooperation
• Small Medium Enterprises
• Trade Investment Data (since
• 1990, disbanded in Nov 1998)

• SOM Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Gender Integration
  (AGGI) (since 1999)
• Steering Group on
• E-commerce (since 1999)

• since 1994
• (called BAC
• before 1999)

• since 1994, predecessor RTL
• from 1992
• Sub-committees/Experts Groups
• Sub-Committee on Standards
• Conformance
• Sub-Committee on Customs
• Procedures
• Market Access Group
• Group on Services
• - Telecommunications
• - Tourism
• - Transportation
• - Energy
• Investment Experts Group
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Government Procurement
• Mobility of Business People
• Competition Policy/Deregulation

• since 1995, predecessor
• ETI 1991

• Sub-group
• EC Outlook Taskforce

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APECS RECORD

• Over a decade APEC region has grown faster,
  traded more, received greater inward investment,
  created more jobs and generated higher standards
  of living than non APEC economies
• Economy of region as a whole has expanded by a
  third and three quarters for lower income
  economies
• When APEC formed most APEC economies had average
  tariff rates higher than 10 today only three do
• After a decade nearly all APEC economies have
  doubled their share of trade as a percentage

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APEC SECRETARIAT

• Core support mechanism for APEC process
• Advisory, operational, logistic and technical
  services to member economies and fora
• Project management and evaluation
• Communications, Public and Media Relations
• Executive Director and Deputy Executive Director
  21 Seconded Professional Staff Members 26
  Support Staff

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Secretariat Outputs

• Disbursement of funds for approved projects in
  liaison with relevant project proponents and fora
• Provide advice to fora and project proponents on
  project implementation processes including
  contracts and tendering, RFPs
• Administer the Guidelines for Project Evaluation
• Provide advice to the BMC on the development and
  implementation of the APEC project evaluation
  guidelines

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APEC Secretariat New Building
35 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119616
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Human Resource Development Working Group (HRDWG)

• The HRDWG conducts its activities through 3
  networks dealing with complementary aspects of
  HRD Labour and Social Protection Network (LSPN),
  Capacity Building Network (CBN) and Education
  Network (EDNET)

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Current Priorities of the HRDWG

• Providing quality basic education, with the focus
  on increasing access by all groups to basic
  education and increasing levels of educational
  attainment for the population as a whole
• Improving labour market information and analysis
  to support flexible and efficient labour markets
  which contribute to economic growth and trade and
  investment in the region.

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Current Priorities (contd)

• Enhancing the skills of managers, entrepreneurs
  and educators/trainers in key sectors as well as
  supporting the needs of small and medium sized
  enterprises (SMEs) and promoting the management
  of sustainable growth and development
• Promoting and developing lifelong learning as a
  means both to meet rapidly changing skills in the
  economy as well as individual needs for
  adjustment and upgrading of education, vocational
  training, professional and technical skills and
  management development

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Current Priorities (contd)

• Increasing the quality of curricula, teaching
  methods and instructional materials in education,
  training and skills development at all levels
  with particular focus on preparing for the
  transition to the 21st century.

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Current Priorities (contd)

• Facilitating the mobility of qualified persons to
  help meet skill shortages by developing means for
  mutual recognition of skills and qualifications
  and to increase opportunities for people to gain
  the skills required required for the economic
  growth and development of member economies and
  the region as a whole

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Current Priorities (contd)

• Enhancing the quality, productivity, efficiency
  and equitable development of the labour forces
  and work places in member economies and
• Strengthening cooperation in education and
  training to support trade and investment
  liberalisation and facilitation.

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Education Priorities

• Providing quality basic education
• Promoting and developing lifelong learning
• Increasing quality of curricula, teaching methods
  and instructional materials for education
• Strengthening cooperation in education

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APEC Leaders Statements onICT Education in
Bangkok

• We all agree that we must be linked through the
  Internet to create a foundation for shared
  prosperity in the future. We aim to meet the
  Brunei Goals of tripling internet access by 2005
  and universal access by 2010. We very much
  welcome an APEC Digital Development Center and
  other elememts in legal framework, human capacity
  and technology building and worker retraining.
  This means a closer partnership between business,
  government academics in order to apply ICT to
  everyday life.

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Themes and Sub-themesAPEC 2004 - Chile

• Main Theme
• One Community, Our Future
• Sub-Themes
• A Commitment to Development through Trade
• Sharing benefits through better practices
• Skills for the coming challenges

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Themes and Sub-themesAPEC 2004 Chile (contd)

• Opportunities for Entrepreneurial Growth
• Growth and Stability Key for APEC Integration
• Commitment to Sustainable Growth
• Experiencing our Diversity

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Third APEC Education Ministerial Meeting-
Santiago, Chile April 29-30, 2004

• Theme Skills for the Coming Challenges
• The Meeting will focus on 4 priority areas-
• Learning English and other foreign languages
• Stimulating learning in Math and Science
• Using Information Technology for teaching and
  learning
• Centralised and Decentralised Systemic Reforms

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Project Management

• Existing Process of Management
• Identification of projects by public/private
  agencies
• Project proposal submitted by economies to
  relevant APEC Fora for endorsement and ranking
• Project proposal sent to the APEC Secretariat for
  review and streamlining
• Project Proposal sent to the APEC Budget and
  Management Committee (BMC)

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Accountability

• SOM ? BMC/Fora ? Secretariat
• ? ?
• Project Proponents
• Project Overseers
• ?
• Contractors/Experts

Secretariats task provides preparatory advice
on formulation of APEC projects, manages project
funding and evaluates projects funded from the
APEC Operational and TILF Accounts.
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Responsibility

• The responsibility for the management of the
  approved APEC funding of the project rests with
  the project overseer, with the APEC Secretariat
  advising on administrative and financial rules.

• Within the Secretariat, the Director (Program)
  who looks after the APEC forum from which a
  project arises is the overseers principal
  contact point on all matters relating to the
  project.

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Proposal

• Objectives Ministers/Leaders priorities
• Assessment Measures
• Linkages Benefits to be derived
• Methodology within 2 years
• and time-table

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EXISTING PROCESS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Ranking of Projects within Fora
• Ranking of projects by BMC

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Proposal (Continued)- Budget detailed
waivers- Dissemination of prefer
electronic project output means-
Assessment criteria - short and
long-term- Gender Criteria
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EXISTING PROCESS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Urgent Projects USD 500,000 set aside for new
  Operational Account projects
• Intersessional Approval

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EXISTING PROCESS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Implementation
• Formation of Steering Committee
• Tendering of projects
• Contracts
• Undertakings for labour and travel

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EXISTING PROCESS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Implementation (Continued)
• Monitor process through fora
• Monitor process through BMC (July meeting)
• Requests for changes

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EXISTING PROCESS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Evaluation
• Formation of Small Group in each fora to receive
  evaluation reports
• Small Group under BMC to consider evaluation
  reports

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MORE INFORMATION

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