by Irene Wijaya | Jun 10, 2021 | Connectivity, Projects
This project responds to the first objective under the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 Strategic Area of Sustainable Infrastructure of increasing public and private infrastructure investment in each ASEAN Member State (AMS), as needed. It is a follow-up to the first project under MPAC 2025 Initiative 1 on the Establishment of the Initial Rolling Priority Pipeline of ASEAN Infrastructure Projects. This project aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic affects ASEAN’s infrastructure development efforts, and help ASEAN policymakers determine appropriate future actions. The project will i) assess emerging trends and priorities in infrastructure taking into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; ii) review of the current Pipeline projects and identify key challenges and opportunities; and iii) provide recommendations on new priority areas to promote sustainable infrastructure, updated screening and scoring criteria to determine the suitability of projects for inclusion into the Pipeline, and criteria/tool to refine or enhance the Pipeline projects’ ability to respond to the pandemic. The outcome of this project is expected to guide the subsequent rolling in and out of projects from the...
by Irene Wijaya | Feb 16, 2021 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Ongoing. With all tariff lines virtually eliminated, ASEAN has refocused its efforts on trade facilitation, including reducing trade transaction costs and addressing NTMs. ASEAN Member States (AMS) have differing national approaches for assessing the barrier effects of draft NTMs as there is no common regional methodology considered as best practice which AMS could refer to. This project seeks to fill this gap by facilitating trade and efficiency for the movement of goods in ASEAN through developing methodologies to conduct the quantitative analysis to identify the trade distortive barrier effects, then assess and quantify the impact of the draft NTMs of three specific product groups. It will also socialise the methodologies and the application outcomes with relevant stakeholders through a series of regional and national capacity building and training...
by Irene Wijaya | Apr 2, 2020 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Completed As the implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC 2025) progresses, it is important to ensure the effectiveness of the strategies to advance the 15 initiatives under the five strategic areas. To ensure robust performance management as part of the overall implementation strategy, this mid-term review (MTR) took stock of the implementation progress of MPAC 2025 to date, drew lessons learned by identifying drivers, success factors, constraints and challenges to achieve the intended outcomes. To ensure synergies, the MTR also assessed relevance of the MPAC 2025 initiatives and activities against the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025, as well as other regional and sub-regional connectivity-related projects. It also assessed the institutional mechanisms and identify the linkages between the MPAC 2025 and relevant ASEAN sectoral work plans to make concrete and practical recommendations to boost implementation of MPAC 2025 towards the ASEAN Community Vision 2025. At the end, a set of concrete, actionable recommendations to improve overall implementation of MPAC 2025 have been identified. Download the Executive Summary and Infographics of the Mid Term Review of MPAC 2025 here. For more information, please visit the ASEAN Connectivity website. Relevant projects: Formulation of Post-2015 Agenda for ASEAN Connectivity Operational Guide for Monitoring, Review, and Evaluation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity...
by Irene Wijaya | Apr 2, 2020 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Ongoing. The ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Strategy (ASUS) was launched at the 22nd ASEAN Coordinating Council (ACC) Meeting on 13 November 2018. Since then, ASUS and its accompanying toolkits have been disseminated to city networks in ASEAN. This project will select a number of interested ASEAN cities based on an objective set of criteria, and provide support to these participating cities to undertake the necessary preparations for implementation of a relevant ASUS action plan. While its main objective is to promote implementation, the support also aims to collect, document and disseminate lessons learned from the preparation process to encourage other cities to adopt ASUS into their urban development plans. The project will also help increase knowledge on the state of urbanisation in the region. This project is being implemented by UN-Habitat. More info on ASUS is available at the ASEAN Connectivity website. Related project: Study to Advance Sustainable Urbanisation in...
by Irene Wijaya | Nov 5, 2019 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Ongoing. The ASEAN economy has flourished over the past 50 years and is now more than 100 times larger since the inception of ASEAN in 1967. In 2018, ASEAN GDP accounted for 3% of global GDP and will continue moving in an upward trend, hinged on stronger integration and connectivity between ASEAN Member States (AMS). ASEAN needs efficient logistics services to sustain its economic growth and enhance its competitiveness, by lowering supply chain costs and improving supply chain’s speed and reliability in each AMS. This project will identify a number of priority trade routes, and build a database of relevant information on these routes to help ASEAN Member States determine bottlenecks and identify specific priorities to enhance connectivity within these routes. It will also develop an ASEAN supply-chain framework. The framework is a necessary first step to better understand ASEAN’s supply chain performance gaps, identify opportunities as well as underlying issues and challenges, and devise a region-wide action plan to address them. The framework will also support the gathering of data on supply-chain performance and bottlenecks for specific trade routes or economic corridors as discussed above, towards an integrated approach to the development of trade...
by Irene Wijaya | Apr 15, 2019 | Connectivity, Projects
Status: Completed. The ASEAN Leaders adopted the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 at the 28th ASEAN Summit on 6 September 2016 in Vientiane, Lao PDR, as the successor to MPAC 2010. Monitoring, Review, and Evaluation (MRE) is an essential component of MPAC 2025. It is crucial for gathering information and assessing whether the plan is implemented as intended, and whether its implementation is yielding its intended effects. This project aims to promote effective implementation of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 through an effective Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation (MRE) mechanism that strengthens accountability and provides quality assessment for current policy decision-making and future planning. This project will enhance the existing MRE mechanism of MPAC 2025, by producing an Operational Guide for the MRE of MPAC 2025. It will also produce a Progress Review Report, containing assessment and analysis of the progress made and challenges faced in implementing MPAC 2025. Please contact the ASEAN Connectivity Division for enquiries on the results of this...
