The ASEAN Disaster Resilience Outlook (ADRO) publication assesses the prospects for realising the ASEAN Vision 2025 on disaster management on time and also to look beyond and anticipate the action needed to prepare ASEAN for disaster risks in the decade after 2025. As a knowledge product in line with the outcome of an “[expanded] and consistent Global Thought Leadership and Engagement of ASEAN, the Outlook consolidates the best practices, concepts and ideas presented and discussed by policy makers, practitioners, and researchers to examine how they could be adapted or implemented to enhance and build ASEAN's future. Related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) are important references of the assessment on disaster resilience in ASEAN. In addition, this publication is part of ASEAN's mid-term review on its overall progress in materialising the broad vision of “a peaceful, stable and resilient Community with enhanced capacity to respond effectively to challenges, and ASEAN as an outward-looking region within a global community of nations”, as stated in the ASEAN Community Vision 2025.

The publication proceeds in three parts. Section one is introduction. Section two analyses the evolving regional and global trends concerning disaster management and reviews ASEAN's achievement in enhancing regional cooperation and global leadership in disaster management. Section three discusses how ASEAN can build and strengthen disaster resilience in the face of technological transformation, tightening sources of funding and increasing complexities of disasters through innovative financing and resource mobilisation, higher levels of institutionalisation, more effective communication, more diverse partnerships and greater emphasis on anticipation. Section four summarizes the policy recommendations for ASEAN member states to materialise the ASEAN Vision 2025 and achieve the related targets of the SDGs and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction by 2030 to be future-ready and thrive in the decades ahead.