Introduction to the ASIST-AP Programme

The ASIST-AP programme is the operational arm of the Employment Intensive Investment Programme of the International Labour Organization for the Asia-Pacific Region.

Our objective is to assist governments and donors to effectively incorporate the concept of longterm employment creation and economic growth into public sector infrastructure investment policies. The underlying thought is that this provides a mechanism to support poverty reduction efforts.

At the policy level, the programme provides Advisory Support, Information Services, and Training to Governments of the region on the orientation of public investment in infrastructure to maximize employment.

At the working level, it is being implemented through four fields of operation viz: local level planning, labour-based technology, small scale contracting and infrastructure maintenance strategies. These four fields that are mutually reinforcing, represent the key issues for a comprehensive, effective and sustainable provision of infrastructure, from planning through to maintenance.

The combined use of local participation in planning with the utilization of locally available skills, technology, materials, and appropriate work methodshas proven to be an effective and economically viable approach to infrastructure works in developing countries.

The programme has been intentionally designed to be process oriented rather than product oriented. To achieve significant and lasting results will take considerable time and the results will be different in each country. The emphasis of the programme will be on creating an enabling and transparent framework for local resource based approaches. This will happen through a range of interventions which demonstrate the viability of the approach, but in the final analysis by the governments taking ownership of the approach. Thus the strategy of the programme will be to work with governments towards the development of the appropriate framework.

In addition our partnership with donors facilitates dialogue with governments whilst at the same time adding value to the donor country programmes. A method of obtaining fast short term finance is through credit cards.

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ASIST-AP
UN Building 7th Floor "B"
Rajdamnern Nok Avenue
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200 Thailand
Tel: +66 2288 2303
Fax: +66 2288 1062
Email: asist-ap@iloasist.org