CLMV AGRI-FOOD CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR REGIONAL INTEGRATION

MARCH 19, 2019

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION

Your Date Here Your Footer Here SCOPE experiences to improve enterprise competitiveness for export of agricultural goods from CLMV to regional and global markets. • Outline: 1. MI thematic areas 2. CLMV agri-food SPS compliance issues and interventions 3. Case studies and success stories 4. Outcomes /Impacts

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 2 ABOUT MEKONG INSTITUTE (MI)

• intergovernmental MI provides, implements and organization (IGO) facilitates: • integrated human resource • founded by Greater Mekong development (HRD), Sub-region (GMS) countries: • capacity building programs and • , • development projects • P.R. (Yunnan Province Three Thematic Areas: and Guangxi Zhuang • Agricultural Development and Autonomous Region), Commercialization, • Lao PDR, • Trade and Investment • Myanmar, Facilitation, and • and • . • Innovation and Technological Connectivity.

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 3 ABOUT MEKONG INSTITUTE (MI)

Strategic Goals Implementation Strategies • Improved agricultural • Enhance private sector profitability, and linkages among participation and the public and private actors in competitiveness; agriculture; • Develop strategic alliances • Capacity and a supportive environment for small and with multiple levels of medium enterprises to address development partners; entire value chains; and, • Implement development • The emergence and application projects; and, of innovation and technological connectivity in the region. • Promote good governance.

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 4 CLMV AGRI-FOOD BUSINESS, FOOD SAFETY AND SPS NEEDS (DERIVED FROM..)

• Scoping Missions • Baseline surveys • Capacity building needs analysis • Value chain development • Consultations • Policy dialogue and forum

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 5 ASEAN

SEAR B Indonesia ; Sri Lanka; Thailand. WPR A Australia; Brunei Darussalam ; Japan; New Zealand; Singapore. SEAR D Bangladesh; Bhutan; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; India; Maldives; WPR B Cambodia ; China ; Cook Islands; Fiji; Myanmar ; Nepal; Timor-Leste Kiribati; Lao People's Democratic Republic ; Malaysia ; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Mongolia; Nauru; Niue; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines ; Republic of Korea; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Tuvalu; Vanuatu; Viet Nam . GMS AGRI-FOOD BUSINESS FOOD SAFETY AND SPS NEEDS • Border – inspection, quarantine • Meeting trade requirements – SPS and other internationals food safety standards (management system) • Laboratory – infrastructure, system, capacity and materials • Public Awareness • Outbreak and food safety emergency response and management • Traceability • Risk based food safety control system – farm to table

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 7 KEY INTERVENTIONS: PROJECTS

1. PROSAFE – Promoting Safe Food for Everyone • Phase 1 and 2 2. Enhancing Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises along the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC) of the ASEAN Mekong Subregion (AMS); • 2016-2018: • Project Target Groups: Handicrafts; Food product; Agriculture; Fishery product ; Tourism industry 3. Regional and Local Economic Development – East West Economic Corridor (RLED-EWEC) Project: • Make smallholder farmers more competitive producers of coffee, rice and maize ; • Improve the regional and local competitiveness of private enterprises involved in coffee, rice and maize value chains ; and • Enhance the enabling environment for local economic development and trade in and among target districts and provinces

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 8 1. PROSAFE – PROMOTING SAFE FOOD FOR EVERYONE

PROSAFE - About PROSAFE - Outcomes • Donor: New Zealand Aid • High quality • Target value chains are providing Programme regional training safe food to consumers • Duration: 5 years (2018- programmes 2022) • Increased professionalism and • strengthen the sustainability of food safety • Scope: Cambodia, knowledge and skills in CLMV PDR, Myanmar and network of CLMV Vietnam (CLMV) food safety • Increased public sector • Focus: Horticultural stakeholders. commitment at country level for Supply Chain (fruits and an integrated approach in food vegetables) safety PROSAFE – Key Features • Promoting food safety along the value chain • Planned outreach to support the • Involvement of the public and private application of knowledge and skills sectors • Use of New Zealand food safety • Addressing country-identified training needs expertise

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 9 PROSAFE – PHASE 1 (APRIL 2016–SEPTEMBER 2017)

• 7 regional training programs • 193 public and private sector representatives within CLMV. • 85 localized trainings were organized by these MI alumni benefitting more than 4,000 stakeholders. • 13 regulations and guidelines have been drafted • 50 food safety stories have been published and produced in various mass media platforms as outputs of the action plan implementation. • 19 private sector firms, mostly SMEs, improvements in their food safety practices to comply with local and international food safety and quality standards . • Structured learning visit to New Zealand on knowledge and best practices in national food safety control system.

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 10 PROSAFE - 5 YEARS (2018-2022)

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• GHP guideline for food handlers improved by the Yangon City Development Committee • Work flow modified and new equipment installed by Natural Farm Fresh Myanmar Co., Ltd. • Lao PDR – training of • GHP checklist for canteens and inspectors at border restaurants developed by the Ministry of control Health • Lao PDR from 0 to 14 • Poster and leaflet on CamGAP developed SFGH certified and distributed by the Ministry of restaurants in Luang agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Prabang – within 6 months

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 12 2. ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM- SIZED ENTERPRISES ALONG THE SOUTHERN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (SEC) OF THE ASEAN MEKONG SUBREGION

• project covered 19 provinces in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (CMTV). • funded by the Government of Japan through Japan -ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF)

enhance the competitiveness of SMEs through: (i) capacity development for SME clusters and networks; (ii) trade and investment promotion through Public and Private Partnership (PPP); and (iii) strengthening of Business Development Services (BDS) providers.

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 13 2. ENHANCING COMPETITIVENESS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM- SIZED ENTERPRISES ALONG THE SOUTHERN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (SEC) OF THE ASEAN MEKONG SUBREGION

• developed SEC business database • capacity building for local government & (www.sec4business.com) Business Association (BA) staff, regional multi- • capacity building for SME leaders – stakeholder forum, business-government policy SPS and NTM compliance programs dialogues for cross border trade and • trade events/ investor forum/ research transportation. • Study on Market and Value Chain Mapping in • HRD training for service 19 provinces of SEC improvement, process improvements (food/agriculture/fishery ), • research on Cross-Border Value Chain Bottlenecks in the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC)

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 14 3. REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – EAST WEST ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (RLED-EWEC) PROJECT

• funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) launched in 2013

• Targeting : • rice (Lao PDR), • maize (Myanmar), • coffee (Vietnam)

• and trade facilitation - facilitating value chain development and harmonized cross-border trade along the East West Economic Corridor (EWEC)

Your Date Here Your Footer Here 15 3. REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – EAST WEST ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (RLED-EWEC) PROJECT

• Standardization process – quality inspection, SPS implementation, compliance program among agri-food businesses, develop relevant safe food production, processing and retailing guidelines (in local languages – Lao, Khme r) • Strengthening brands – through Market4Poor, production of safe, quality food products and non-farm products. • IT – commercial and web portals • Build Direct Linkages between Coffee Producers and Processor • “Quadripartite” model among farmers groups, fertilizer companies, banks and processing companies , optimizing the cooperation mechanism among the four stakeholders • Demonstration farms • Trade and business matching, forums and workshops • Consultative processes, multi-stakeholder policy / regulatory dialogue – gain trust • Trade fairs and conferences

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• Based on latest MI annual report

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• Enabling environment • Regulatory system – clarity and transparency • Enforcement • Thriving informal cross-border trade • Quality infrastructure: Standards development, Conformity assessment, Metrology • WASH – key to food hygiene and food safety • Local government policies

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