Title, date, & venue of the event:
FOSTERING
AN ASEAN COMMUNITY: COOPERATION IN DEVELOPING VALUE CHAINS OF SOLIDARITY-BASED
COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES.
Date:
April 25, 2015
Venue: Conference Room, GMM 15th Floor, Menara Manulife, No. 6,
Jalan Gelenggang, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Participants: About 50 people from ASEAN member countries
plus about 5 resource persons from ASEC
Organisers:
Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) & Global Movement of Moderates
(GMM).
Co-organizers:
ASEAN Foundation, the ASEAN Secretariat, Emerging & Special Partnerships
Unit / International Labour Organization (ILO), Asian Strategy & Leadership
Institute (ASLI), Bina Swadaya Foundation, Sinergi Indonesia, & Institute
of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Objectives
To
promote the concept of solidarity economy, social business, social enterprise
and social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for community empowerment and in
addressing poverty and inequality in Asean member states
To
draw policy implications in identifying the place of social solidarity economy
in the action plan for Sustainable Development Goals as a post MDG iniciative
To
discuss the possibilities of charting a cooperation road map among Asean member
countries, civil society, academic institutions and private sector (see
proposal below).
PROPOSAL FOR ASEAN SOUTH-SOUTH
& TRIANGULAR COOPERATION (SSTC) IN DEVELOPING VALUE CHAINS OF
SOLIDARITY-BASED COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES (the outcome document shall be submitted to the
ASEAN Secretariat and the ILO for funding support).
The proposed ASEAN SSTC project shall be an iterative,
goal-oriented learning programme with five components described below. The
target project beneficiaries are leaders and officers of solidarity-based community
enterprises form CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam). Experts will come
from Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia.
1.
Participatory documentation workshops.
There
is a need to document emerging practical knowledge and experiences of South-south
and triangular cooperation of value chains of solidarity-based community
enterprises that could be scaled up. The proposed program could introduce a
more systematic method of documentation of good practices that would:
(i) identify and describe the ASRAN
cooperation elements, as established by ILO;
(ii)
look at both the technology or approach that was implemented (e.g. system of
rice intensification of CEDAC in Cambodia, community-supported agriculture,
value chain financing of small industries in the Philippines, etc.);
(iii)
clarify the way in which these approaches and technologies have been shared
across borders and within each country; and
(iv)
translate the documentation outputs into separate articles/manuals.
2.
Peer-to-peer learning (Share stories).
The materials produced in programme component 1 can then be used in
peer-to-peer learning within the country. They could be used in various
roundtable discussions, meetings, conferences, and workshops in the country to
share stories of good practices in social and solidarity economy.
3. ASEAN Learning (exchange visits, to
see is believing).
Parallel
with the ASEAN initiative of evolving economic communities or growth areas
(e.g. IMT-GT, BiMP-EAGA, and CLMV – Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam) as a means
for regional integration, the proposed program could promote social and solidarity
economy as a component of ASEAN’s people-oriented regional integration and
people-to-people connectivity.
Experts from within these economic
communities can be tapped to assist in project design of ASEAN cooperation
programs for the development of social and solidarity economy, and/or for
setting up learning and sharing opportunities in the region. In this context
resource persons from Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia could provide support
to CLMV Countries.
In the context of south-south learning, the proposed
program may incorporate
the planned Global Social and Solidarity Finance Summit in 2016 and which could
be conducted in conjunction with the ILO Social & Solidarity Economy
Academy in 2016. Asian Development Bank has expressed interest in hosting the
Global Social and Solidarity Finance Summit 2016 and the UN Task Force on Social
& Solidarity Economy has committed to calendar it among its activities.
4. Adaptation and
replication of good practices.
The proposed program shall provide means for
testing and refining good practices that could be adapted and replicated in
other countries. Adaptability and replicability of locally generated technology
in other contexts and environment contribute significantly to the
sustainability of the good practice and the social and solidarity economy in
general.
The proposed
program could incorporate the suggestion of Sahakian and Dunand (2013) for an
exchange programme where the solidarity economy movement in the Philippines and
in ASEAN in general could learn and use the guiding principles of the Social
and Solidarity Economy Chamber in Geneva, while the social and solidarity
economy movement in Geneva could learn and use the conceptual approach of the
Philippines.
In both Geneva and the Philippines
greater solidarity is needed across supply chains and actors, between social
and solidarity economy and the sustainable consumption and production (SCP)
networks, and between regions in a highly unequal world. The social and
solidarity economy movement can benefit from a systems approach embraced by the
SCP community.
In turn, SCP can benefit from a
concept of social and solidarity economy that places people and planet first.
Social and solidarity economy and SCP communities could benefit from
interdisciplinary thinking which is not always promoted in formal educational
systems. The different social forums and social and solidarity economy networks
are certainly paving a way for more collaboration across regions, yet a link
remains to be made with environmental forums and SCP networks.
5. Institutional capacity
building
Institutional capacity building of partner
organizations involved in co-generating the good practice is crucial in
perfecting the technology or approach (good practice). In addition, the partner
organizations should be equipped and become proficient themselves in the
iterative, goal-oriented learning approach of the program. This will ensure the
sustainability of the program, which in turn is essential for attracting
internally generated support for the program and for mainstreaming it into the
larger ASEAN regional integration initiatives.
APRIL 25, 2015 PROGRAM (PROVISIONAL)
08.00-09.00 Registration/Coffee
09.00-09.30 Opening Session
Welcome
remarks by Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, CEO of GMM
Brief Speech by Ms
Elaine Tan (ASEAN Foundation)
Address by the Chairman
of ASEAN CPR, Dato Hasnudin Hamzah
09.30-11.00 Panel:
Solidarity-based Community Enterprises for ASEAN: Opportunities, possibilities
& challenges in Asean
Dr Benjamin Quinones,
Jr. (ASEC Chair)
Pak Bambang Ismawan
(ASEC Indonesia)
ILO Representative (Mr.
Roberto di Meglio or Jurgen Schwettmann)
Panel Moderator: Datuk
Dr Denison Jayasooria (ASEC Deputy Chair)
11.00-12.00 Open forum
12.00 Group photo,
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.30 Case
Study presentations by: 1) Mr. Rolly Victoria,
Alalay Sa Kaunlaran Inc. (ASKI) Philippines (Mainstreaming financial inclusion
thru scale up of microfinance:; (2) Mr. Shigeru Tanaka, Deputy Secrary General,
PARC, Japan (Inter-people cooperation in building solidarity in conflict-affected
territories); and 3) Dr Jun E Tan, ISIS, Malaysia (Community Economy in Malaysia
addressing poverty and low income
(Social entrepreneurship, Social enterprise, solidarity economy )
14.30-15.00 Open forum
15.00-15.15 Coffee/tea break
15.15-16.00 Proposal for ASEAN Community cooperation for the development of
value
chains of solidarity-based community enterprises, as a South-south &
triangular
cooperation of ASEC, ASEAN, GMM, and ILO in line with the
Sustainable
Development Goals agenda.
(Included in the proposal is the ILO
SSE Academy 2016 in Asia
and the International Conference on Social &
Solidarity Finance 2016
also in Asia)
Panel
& Discussion
16.00-17.00 Discussion/adoption
of the proposal
17.00 – 17.30 Closing
session: Setting the agenda for 2015 and beyond for SSE in ASEAN
Launch
of ASEAN Solidarity Economy Council
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