PROGRAMME & ABSTRACT BOOK CPRN 2022

vii SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (CPRN) The SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (CPRN) is a component of the SEAMEO College. The main purpose of the CPRN is to enhance the relevance and sharpen the responsiveness of SEAMEO Centres and the Secretariat to the needs of education leaders for policy research to address regional human resource development issues in Southeast Asia. On 8-10 March 2016, the Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) hosted a workshop at College, Los Baños in the Philippines. It was supported by the Asian Development Bank (Thailand) and the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction titled “Workshop on the Establishment of SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (CPRN).” At the 2017 SEAMEO Centre Directors Meeting, SEAMEO Centres concurred on the SEAMEO Secretariat to create the task force of the SEAMEO CPRN. As a result, SEAMEO Secretariat organised the first meeting of the SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (SEAMEO CPRN) Taskforce on 22- 23 February 2018 at Windsor Suites & Convention Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The outputs were the draft of the Terms of Reference (TOR) and the Action Plan (2018-2020). Later in July 2018, the SEAMEO Centre Directors Meeting 2018 took note and agreed with SEAMEO Secretariat to lead the development of the Centres Policy Research Network for its first three years. For sustainability of the Network, SEAMEO Secretariat conducted the SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (SEAMEO CPRN) Symposium on 30-31 January 2019 at the Four Wings Hotel, Sukhumvit 26, Bangkok, Thailand, as the platform for SEAMEO Centres to update trends on policy research, share ongoing activities with the other Centres, and plan for future activities in 2019-2023. There were 43 participants from SEAMEO Regional Centres and Partners such as Korean Education Development Institute, ASEAN University Network, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and UNICEF EAPRO. SEAMEO Secretariat convened the SEAMEO CPRN Virtual Summit on March 10, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand, to update trends on policy research, share ongoing activities with the other Centres, and revisit the activities plan agreed in the last SEAMEO CPRN Symposium in 2019. At the end of the SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (CPRN) Virtual Summit 2021, all the 88 participants agreed to set up the SEAMEO CPRN Secretariat for 2021-2023. The Summit agreed and supported SEAMEO RECSAM to serve as SEAMEO CPRN Secretariat for F.Y. 2021 – 2023. Objectives As we journey towards the new normal, the SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network (CPRN) Summit F.Y. 2021 – 2023 on Education, Science and Culture will convene to: ● Strengthen and align the SEAMEO Centres Policy Research Network initiatives according to the draft of SEAMEO Strategic Plan 2021-2030 and align with the recent SEAMEO Ministerial Policy e-Forum (SMPeF) and High-Level Forum declarations; ● Provide opportunities for SEAMEO Centres and Network to share their policy researches and knowledge management updates; and ● Discuss and agree on the CPRN Research Agenda priorities and opportunities for F.Y. 2021 – 2023 in alignment with SEAMEO Strategic Plan 2021-2030 in the area of Education, Science, and Culture. Background