Welcome to
The 4th
ASEAN Ministerial
Meeting on Women
About Event
Indonesia through the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection is proud to host the 4th AMMW (ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women), related meetings and side events virtually from 5-15 October 2021 with the theme of Digital Economy and Financial Inclusion for Improving ASEAN Women’s Competitiveness. With the ASEAN Community Vision 2025, mutual respect and cooperation in mind, we urge regional endeavors to build back communities while addressing the significant challenges of inequalities to make women and girls better represented in the global recovery efforts from COVID-19.
Previous Meetings
Previous meetings of ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women
1st AMMW
Vientiane, Lao PDR
19 October 2012
Enhancing Gender Perspective and ASEAN Women’s Partnership for Environmental Sustainability
2nd AMMW
Makati City, the Philippines
23 October 2015
Accounting for Results on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the ASEAN Community Vision 2025
3rd AMMW
Ha Noi, Viet Nam
25 October 2018
Social Protection for Women and Girls: Toward the ASEAN Community Vision 2025
Related Meetings
Related meetings with 4th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women, Indonesia 2021
20th ACW Meeting
ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW). ACW is a subsidiary body of the AMMW composed of senior officials in the respective ministries in-charge of women and girls. The ACW supports AMMW by recommending regional policies, developing and implementing the five-year regional work plan, and managing partnerships.
23rd ACWC Meeting
The ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC)
4th AMMW Meeting
ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women (AMMW). Composed of ministers in-charge of women and girls in all ASEAN Member States, the AMMW sets the strategic policy direction on ASEAN’s regional cooperation on women. The AMMW is under the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Pillar.
13th ACW+3 Meeting
ACW Plus Three. This is an annual meeting of the ACW with the Plus Three Countries namely China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, and serves as a regular platform for exchanging policies and good practices on the empowerment of women and girls.
8th ACWC-ACW
Consultation Meeting
This consultative meeting serves as a platform for the ACW and the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) to synergise their efforts on areas of mutual interest, as well as purposively facilitate partnerships on complementing issues such as gender mainstreaming, gender and climate change, and non-gender stereotyping, among others.
Other side Events
- FGD on “Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion to Achieve Gender Equality in ASEAN Member States”
- Webinar “Export to Face the Global SME Challenge” (AWEN)
- Webinar “Women Participation on Digital Economies”
- Webinar “History and Fame of Batik” (AWEN) Awarding “Gender Equality” (APE)
- Webinar “Sharing Best Practices of Implementation of Public Private Partnership on Women’s Economic Empowerment”
- Webinar “Indonesia’s Experience on Women Empowering Women in Pandemic Situation (Indonesia’s Experience)”
- Launch of ASEAN-UNESCAP Joint Report on Addressing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in ASEAN: Policy Guidelines and Recommendations
Bintang Puspayoga
Minister for Women Empowerment and Child Protection Republic of Indonesia
Indonesia as Chair
The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women (AMMW) aims to determine policies for the protection of women in ASEAN and support the decisions of the ACWC and ACW reports. Efforts to build ASEAN involvement, as a region, in women’s issues began at the ASEAN Women’s Leaders Conference held in 1975.
This year, the 4th edition of AMMW will be held in Indonesia at October 11-15th 2021 with the theme “Digital Economy and Financial Inclusion for Improving ASEAN Women’s Competitiveness”.