Location :
Southeast Asia

Project Background

The ASEAN Leaders’ Vision Statement on A Cohesive and Responsive ASEAN on 26 June 2020 called for concerted efforts to identify emerging challenges and opportunities to better formulate initiatives to ensure ASEAN is better positioned for the new Normal, and as we work toward developing the ASEAN Community Vision Post 2025, while taking into account ASEAN’s COVID-19 exit strategy. The ASEAN Chairman’s Statement of the 36th ASEAN Summit in June 2020 likewise emphasised the need to look beyond the progress and achievements, and to assess the changes on the strategic landscape of ASEAN community building efforts and
identify emerging issues that need to be taken into considerations towards 2025 and beyond.

A robust repository of information and research through proposed ASCC Research and Development Platform is expected to enable the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community to develop and implement holistic solutions will be required against the backdrop of the fast-changing and emerging challenges –such as public health emergencies, climate change, disaster management – confronting the region.

These challenges also lend greater urgency to intensify collaborative research, and embrace a greater diversity of perspectives and ideas, so that decision makers can fully understand the fault lines and underlying causes of socio-economic problems, and develop the relevant solutions.

Project Scope and Objectives

The ASCC Research and Development Platform (Disaster Management) is a newly developed project aimed at addressing the concerns raised at the high-level regional forum. The outputs of this ASCC Research and Development Platform will contribute meaningfully to more informed decisions that ASCC sectoral bodies could take in developing and implementing initiatives.

Team Members
Fathia Lutfiananda, M.Sc. Ananda Prabu Dian, S. PWK