The ASEAN Development Outlook (ADO) - Inclusive and Sustainable Development is the first report of its kind. In this inaugural report, an effort is made to chart progress towards inclusive and sustainable development in the ASEAN region, and to identify key challenges together with examples of best practices and candid analysis on lesson learned for future policy planning and programming.
The ADO’s findings have been structured in terms of four inter-related themes: Identity; Natural and Built Environment; Livelihoods and Social Welfare and Health. Each is overlain with four drivers of change which will create significant opportunities and risks for the current and future ASEAN population.
This report demonstrates that directly engaging with the social and cultural spheres of development programmes and interventions through participatory methods will ensure that the voices of individuals across different cohorts of society are included. Furthermore, the shift to consultation with individuals and communities in ASEAN Member States sets in play the practices that would make for a more organic and holistic process of consensus building, and enhance this principle that is at the heart of ASEAN thinking and raison d’etre.
