RCARO Roles Current Status and Future Directions

1. RCARORoles Current Status and Future Directions July 13, 2010 Mr. Maeng-Ho YANG, Ph.D. Head, Programme Division RCA Regional Office (WWW.RCARO.org)

2. Contents • RCARO Roles and Status • Past Achievements • CurrentStatus and Issues • Future Directions

3. RCARO Roles and Status(1) Milestones of RCARO

4. RCARO Roles and Status(2) RCARO Status : IAEA TC and RCA 4 Regional Cooperative Agreement ARCAL ARASIA Latin America(19) Arab States in Asia(7) RCA Regional Office RCA AFRA Africa(29) Asia & the Pacific(17) 1972: The Regional Co-operative Agreement was put into force 2012 : The 40th anniversary of RCA

5. RCARO Roles and Status(3) the 32nd NRM (27-30 April 2010, Manila) 15 projects for 2009~2011 ( 2009 budget : about USD 3 mil.)

6. RCARO’s Roles and Status(4) RCARO – Governing Bodies and Missions • General Conference Meeting • National Representative Meeting • Standing Advisory Committee (RCA) • Steering Committee (in Korea, as a host country) Governing Bodies Mission 1 to enhance awareness of RCA VISIBILITY VIABILITY to promote partnership for RCA Mission 2

7. RCARO’s Roles and Status(5) Roles and Responsibilities of RCARO • To seek out opportunities for the RCA to participate in projects funded by major regional and international donors including international agencies • To promote the peaceful uses of nuclear technology to address regional and national needs • To enhance visibility of RCA at regional and national fora • To implement the directives from RCA Member States as agreed at the Meetings of National RCA Representatives

8. II. Past Achievements(1) Activities on the RCA’s Awareness • Publications of Promotional Materials on RCA ( brochures, Success Stories, Information Kit, a promotional video, etc) • Development of database to facilitate interactions with stakeholders/end-users (RCARO Homepage) • Incorporation of Members Only Homepage into RCARO website for the establishment of RCA knowledge base • Presentations and exhibitions in international meetings • Assistance to facilitate information flow amongst MSs

9. II. Past Achievements(2) RCA Awareness Increasing Activities by RCARO

10. II. Past Achievements(3) Publication of RCA Success Stories 4 Stories Published 5 Stories Published 4 Stories Published • Drinking Water • Air Pollution • Tissue Banking • Distance Assisted Training • Advanced Materials • Energy Analysis & Planning • Livestock productivity • Landuse • Petrochemical Industry • Plant Breeding • Marine Pollution Prevention • Geothermal Exploration • NDT

11. II. Past Achievements(4) Partnership Promotion Activities • UNDP: Post-Tsunami Environment Impact Assessment Project using Nuclear or Isotope Based Techniques • ADB/CAI: Joint Development of Air Quality Management DB • PEMSEA : Participation in the EAS Congress 2009 in the area of Marine Environment Management • ESCAP : Application is to be doneaccordingly to a new announcement by ESCAP

12. II. Past Achievements(5) Successful Project : RCA-UNDP-RCARO Project on Post-Tsunami Environment Assessment Project Summary

13. II. Past Achievements(6) Nuclear Knowledge Preservation Programmes

14. III. Current Status and Issues(1) Activities on the RCA’s Awareness RCA Regional Profile – January 2010 - More Assistance requested in the awareness and promotion of the technologies to aware of nuclear technologies and their advantages to stakeholders RCARO has been doing successfully its activities for promoting RCA’s Awareness and would continue current activities such as publication of success story, promotion video, presentation in international meetings and exhibition events. Nuclear Knowledge Preservation Programmes RCARO could take actions properlyin response to increasing demand from Member States in step by step manner.

15. III. Current Status and Issues(2) Partnership Promotion Activities • Results of RCARO workshop in July 2009. • - It is difficult to develop partnership projects with novel application of • nuclear techniques other than the RCA projects. • - RCARO continue to investigate potential funding source for • partnership development and could consider outsourcing of • promotional experts for partnership development. • - RCARO will focus on the feasibilities of expanding the application of • RCA project results and further development of the RCA projects. • Major Issues(examples) • - Lack of information and experiences, no mechanism and promotional • experts to develop partnership projects in strategic manner. • - Difficulty in meeting RCA criteria and those of potential partners, • utilization of nuclear techniques and no overlapping with RCA projects

16. III. Current Status and Issues(3) NewDemand for supporting RCA Programme Activities • During the 32nd NRM in April 2010, Member States suggested RCARO’s roles ; • In effective transmission of information of RCA programme to MSs- Improving awareness of NPCs on RCA policy matters during • progress and review meeting of RCA projects • - Participation in RCA project meeting RCA Projects are core and important activities in RCA programme. But RCARO has not participated in RCA projects and may have to explore the ways to support RCA-FP and to participate in RCA projects.

17. IV. Future Directions(1) • Situation of RCA System to be considered • Year by year change of RCA Chair • Change of National Representative and experts involved in member • States • RCA –FP‘s heavy workload with less available supporting staffs in • IAEA-TCAP, recruitment of new RCA –FP this year • - Long time planning and implementation of RCA projects • Collaboration and cooperation with RCA-FP and MSs • in the role to be considered • Transmission of information of RCA programme and projects to MSs- Improving awareness of NPCs on RCA policy matters during • progress and review meeting of RCA projects • Participation in project meeting(such as MTS, program formulation, • project planning, designing, implementation, assessment) • - Post management of finished RCA projects

18. IV. Future Directions(2) Step by step extending of RCARO ‘s role and activities with recommended prioritization - but keeping given RCARO’s mandates and activities - considering manpower capacity and resources available Approaching Strategies • In short term, supporting RCA-FP in facilitation of RCA • projects meeting and depository function of project and • meeting documents by RCA homepage • In long term, establish the share of roles and • responsibilities in supporting RCA-FP as the regional • office for RCA programme.

19. Thank you for your attention. Questions?