The creation of the system under
the EU-ASEAN Statistical Capacity Building (EASCAB) program was very essential
as ASEAN needs reliable and timely statistical data that are comparable across
all ten ASEAN Member States to help formulate regional policy and monitor
integration in the region.
“ASEAN must monitor progress to
ensure the region remains on track towards establishing the ASEAN Economic
Community by the end of 2015. For this, we need timely, reliable and regionally
comparative statistics,” Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of ASEAN said.
The EASCAB assisted both ASEAN
statistic department and the national statistic offices of all ten member
states to produce reliable and comparable statistical data such as the trade in
goods and services, foreign direct investment, and other key sectors of
development, and the publication of the first ever regional report on the
status of ASEAN progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
As the first regional program of
its kind, the EASCAB supports the establishment of the ASEAN Community
Statistical System (ACSS) Committee as the highest policy-making and
coordinating body on statistical matters in the ASEAN region.
It also supports the creation of
a regional network of statisticians, harmonized collection and processing
systems to produce more reliable and timely data. It also supported the
creation of an online database called the Regional Information Exchange
Database System (REXDBS) to facilitate data collection, production and
dissemination.
“The European Union has agreed to
support a second 4-year program to strengthen ASEAN integration, monitoring and
statistics with a budget of 7.5 million euro. The new program is expected to
start later in 2013,” Colin Crooks, Deputy Head of European Union Delegation to
Indonesia, Brunei and ASEAN, said.
The first EASCAB is a 4-year, 6
million euro program, intended to improve the collection, processing and
dissemination of reliable statistics in the region. The program closes in
January 2013.
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