Priority Areas of Cooperation
ASEAN underlines complementarities between the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 by developing the Complementarities Roadmap 2020-2025 which sets out priority areas of cooperation.
The Roadmap includes the development of evidence-based studies and action researches on approaches to eradicating poverty and delivery of basic services to vulnerable and marginalised groups. It also includes development of policy recommendations, guidelines, as well as capacity building initiatives that enhances capacities of governments, rural people’s organisations, private sector and other stakeholders.
To achieve the SDGs, ASEAN also developed multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder platforms to provide resources for learning and exchange as well as to encourage cooperation between National Development Planning Agencies, ASEAN Dialogue Partners and ASEAN Development Partners, and international organisations and civil society organisations.
ASEAN continues to widen the policy space and embrace empowerment approach to engage multiple stakeholders in a dialogue to promote inclusive growth and sharing prosperity for all. ASEAN’s cooperation on rural development and poverty eradication establishes the firm link between invigorating and sustaining growth in rural areas alongside the development of peri-urban and urban areas and strengthening human capital in rural sector, which will lead to the reduction of poverty in the region.
