Skip to main content
Home
  • Who We Are
    • Our Story
    • Our Organization
      • Partnership Council
      • Executive Committee
      • Ministerial Forum
      • Management and Secretariat
    • Our Partners
      • Country Partners
      • Non-Country Partners
      • Funding Partners
    • Our network
      • PNLC
      • PNLG
      • Youth
  • What We Do
    • Coastal And Ocean Governance
    • Regional Marine Strategy (SDS-SEA)
      • 2023-2027
      • 2018-2022
      • 2003-2015
    • Integrated Coastal Management
      • ICM Code
      • ICM Cycle
      • ICM Scaling-up
      • ICM Sites
      • ICM System Certification
      • ICM Professional Certification
      • PSHEM System Certification
    • Integrated Programming
      • ASEANO
      • ATSEA-2
      • GloFouling Partnerships Project
      • Integrated River Basin Management Project
      • Marine Plastics Project
      • SEA-MaP
    • Knowledge Management
    • Blue Economy
    • Blue Carbon
    • State of the Coasts Reporting
      • RSOC 2021
      • RSOC 2018
      • Local SOCs
      • NSOC
    • SEA Knowledge Bank
  • Resources
    • News
    • Videos
    • Stories
    • Events
    • Publications
  • EAS Congress
ASEANO 1 Headers for Projects ASEANO 2 Headers for Projects ASEANO 3 Headers for Projects

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. What We Do

ASEANO

East Asia is a hotspot for the leakage of plastic waste to the oceans. Most of the world's largest-contributing countries lie within the region. While countries and local governments in the region have been early innovators in plastic waste management, there remain major gaps in capacity needs and development.

Funded by the Government of Norway, Project ASEANO is led by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Indonesia in close collaboration with the PEMSEA Resource Facility and ASEAN Secretariat under the purview of the endorsing ASEAN sectoral body, the ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME).

The main goal of the ASEANO project is to build capacity to tackle plastic pollution from key sources in the ASEAN region through improved knowledge on sources, releases, transport, plus the ultimate fate of plastic pollution. The project promotes the development of sound and sustainable measures to reduce the impacts of plastic pollution and their implications on socioeconomic development and the environment. It focuses on the local level, with the Philippines' Imus River and Indonesia's Citarum River as its two Southeast Asian project sites.

PEMSEA worked with the Provincial Government of Cavite, through the Provincial Government-Environment and Natural Resources Office in the design and implementation of the Philippine component of the ASEANO regional project. 

The results of the project have been synthesized into knowledge products (LGU toolkit, policy best practices handbook, monitoring tools and technologies for plastics management, etc.) that can be used as a reference by local governments across the ASEAN region with similar priority management concerns.

 

 

Project Reports

  • Inception workshop for ASEAN-Norwegian cooperation project on local capacity building for reducing plastic pollution in the ASEAN region (ASEANO) and associated activities: Report
  • The situation and causes of plastic pollution in the Imus River, Cavite: Report
  • Mapping and Characterization of the Imus River Watershed: Primer and Report
  • Mapping of Sources and Concentration of Plastic Waste in the Imus River Watershed: Primer and Report
  • Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Concerning Plastic Waste Along Imus River: Primer and Report
  • Survey on Plastic Litter Along Imus River: Primer and Report
  • Social Implications of Plastic Pollution Mitigation Initiatives Along the Imus River: Primer and Report
  • Study on Plastics Use and Waste Management in the Food Service Industry: Primer and Report
  • LGU Toolkit for Marine Litter: Digital toolkit
  • End of Project Stakeholders Forum: Proceedings

 

Relevant Link

ASEANO Sea Knowledge Bank

PEMSEA white
Opportunities
  • Careers
  • Procurement
  • Contracts Awarded
Quick links
  • SEA Knowledge Bank
  • Privacy Policy
  • Corporate Policies
  • Incident Report
Contact us
  • Subscribe to PEMSEA
  • Media Inquiry

PEMSEA Building, DENR Compound,
Visayas Avenue, Quezon City 1165, Philippines
TELEPHONE: +63(2) 8-929-2992
EMAIL: info@pemsea.org