After a series of consultations, the ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting (AHMM) and Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development (SOMHD) through the ASEAN Task Force on Maternal and Child Health (ATFMCH), with support from relevant stakeholders, have endorsed the first ASEAN Regional Guidelines for Minimum Requirement for Training and Accreditation of Skilled Birth Attendants.The guidelines provide critical information on the required core competencies of SBAs in ASEAN, the standards for their training programmes, as well as the relevant requirements for training institutions and for the assessment and accreditation of SBAs.rn