infrastructure will support logistics and people mobility; and the support for visa
facilitation (under “people mobility”) will create demand for infrastructure. The
full set of linkages between strategies is described in Exhibit 8.
EXhIBIT 8
Relevance
Linkages among MPAC 2025 strategies
Large
Medium
Limited
Impact on other strategies
ASEAN
Connectivity
2025 strategies
Sustainable
infrastructure
1 Sustainable
infrastructure
2 Digital innovation
3 Seamless
logistics
4
Digital
innovation Seamless
logistics Development of
ICT-related
infrastructure Development of
infrastructure to
support logistics Development of
aviation, road, rail
and maritime links
Support ICT
solutions for
logistics growth
(e.g., IoT) Support growth of
new digital
education
solutions through
open data
Development of
regulatory
frameworks to
support ICT
‘Soft infrastructure’
focus to support
efficiency of
infrastructure
usage
Regulatory
excellence
People mobility
Provide objective
measures of
progress and
bottlenecks by
ASEAN Member
States
Support
development of
e-commerce
Support on
addressing NTBs
and standards
Regulatory
excellence
5 People mobility
N/A
Visa liberalisation
creates demand
for travel and
related
infrastructure
Figure 2
B . ThE VALUE CONTRIBUTION OF MPAC 2025 TO EXISTING ASEAN
SECTORAL
WORK
PLANS
Interactions
between
the prioritised
Value Contribution of MPAC 2025 to
strategies
existing ASEAN sectoral work plans
6.
As discussed in the introduction, MPAC 2025 seeks to add value by
Each of the five strategies relate to different MPAC 2025 seeks to add value by complementing
complementing
and synergising
ASEAN
Community
Blueprints
2025,
aspects
of the three dimensions
of ASEAN the and
synergising
the ASEAN Community
Blueprints
ASEAN
sectoral
plans, and
Initiative
ASEAN
Integration
(IAI)
Connectivity
(i.e.,
physical, work
institutional,
and the
2025,
ASEAN for
sectoral
work plans,
the Initiative
people-to-people connectivity) to reflect the for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan III, as well as
comprehensiveness of the ASEAN Connectivity enhancing synergies with other sub-regional and
agenda. In addition, they are mutually reinforcing. inter-regional frameworks, in five ways:
For example, the “regulatory excellence” strategy i. Additionality. MPAC 2025 creates new
supports harmonisation of standards and
initiatives (not in the ASEAN sectoral work
addressing of non-tariff barriers, which can help
plans) that are considered crucial for improving
promote logistics. Similarly, the development of
physical, institutional, or people-to-people
MASTER PLAN ON ASEAN CONNECTIVITY 2025 41
infrastructure will support logistics and people
connectivity.
mobility; and the support for visa facilitation ii. Breadth. MPAC 2025 expands the coverage
(under “people mobility”) will create demand for
of initiatives in existing ASEAN sectoral
infrastructure. The full set of linkages between
work plans so that they include the areas
strategies is described in Figure 2.
identified to be important from a connectivity
perspective.
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