The Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instrument Human Rights Facility (READI HRF) office is a two-year initiative of the European Union to support the ASEAN regional integration agenda. It supports the policy development process in non-trade-related areas by supporting the ASEAN Community blue prints and drawing on European experiences and know-how. From August 2015 to August 2017, the READI HRF office
supports the policy dialogues that are demand-driven by EU and ASEAN policymakers, in particular the four ASEAN human rights bodies and committees—our ‘beneficiaries’. They are the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and the Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC), the ASEAN Committee on Migrant Workers (ACMW) and the ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW). Demands for the services of the READI HRF office are expressed in the form of concept notes that can come from ASEAN through the relevant desk officers at the ASEAN Secretariat. In this regard, the relevant units are the Human Rights Division under the Political-Security Community Department, the Labour and Civil Service Division under the Socio-Cultural Community Department, the Poverty Eradication and Gender Workers Division under the Socio-Cultural Community Department at the ASEAN Secretariat.
