Tobacco Free Asia : About

The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance or SEATCA or simply the “Alliance”
has been in existence since 2001 to act as supportive base for government and non-
government tobacco control workers and advocates in the SEA region, primarily to

Thailand

Malaysia

Cambodia

and

Vietnam

. Currently, the alliance is formally

extended to three more countries of

Indonesia

Laos PDR, and the

Philippines

through the three-year tobacco control fellowship program.

SEATCA was awarded the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office's World No
Tobacco Day Award 2004 in recognition of its major contribution to tobacco control in
the region.

SEATCA Objectives
1. To form a supportive base for government and non-government tobacco control
    workers in their efforts to promote the implementation of effective evidence-based
    national tobacco control measures.
2. To encourage greater cooperation between tobacco control workers at national
    and regional levels and to act as a regional leader on issues which affect all
    countries in the region.
3. To facilitate information transfer and the sharing of experience and knowledge, to
    organize capacity building exercises, and to coordinate national and regional
    initiatives in tobacco control work.
4. To strengthen national tobacco control movements and to bring mainland
     Southeast Asian issues into the international tobacco control arena.

SEATCA Activities
• Publication of 'Tobacco in Mainland Southeast Asia,' a document profiling the
  current situation of tobacco in each member country.
• Establishing ASEAN Fellowship Program to the build capacity of tobacco control
  advocates in the region.
• Sponsoring research on tobacco control issues pertinent to the region.
• Development and maintenance of the Tobacco-Free Asia Website, a source of
  current information on tobacco control issues in Asia.
• Maintenance of Listserv to share important tobacco control news and information
  in the region and globally. The Listserv is supported by Globalink.
• Organizing capacity building workshops on important regional issues. Workshops
  organized to date are: