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Social Welfare and Protection
18. ASEAN is committed to enhancing the well-being and the livelihood of the peoples of
ASEAN through alleviating poverty, ensuring social welfare and protection, building a safe, secure
and drug free environment, enhancing disaster resilience and addressing health development concerns.
B.1. Poverty Alleviation
19. Strategic objective: Fully address socio-economic disparities and poverty that persist
across ASEAN Member States including achieving the MDG goal of eradicating extreme poverty
and hunger.
Actions:
B.2. Social safety net and protection from the negative impacts of integration and
globalization
20. Strategic objective: Ensure that all ASEAN peoples are provided with social welfare and
protection from the possible negative impacts of globalisation and integration by improving the
quality, coverage and sustainability of social protection and increasing the capacity of social risk
management.
Expand the role of civil society and citizens groups in integrity efforts and governance.
Develop and implement an ASEAN Roadmap towards realising the UN Millennium Development
Goals in consultation among concerned sectoral bodies with a view to
identify and extend technical assistance required in the field of poverty reduction;
Support ASEAN Member States’ community-driven initiatives for poverty reduction
towards narrowing the development gap within ASEAN;
Intensify efforts to implement projects related to poverty alleviation particularly in
area of rural infrastructure, water supply, sanitation under the Initiative for ASEAN
Integration and other sub-regional cooperation frameworks;
Improve ASEAN capacity in simple and applicable assessment and monitoring poverty
reduction strategies through a targeting system that ensures low exclusion and
leakage rates;
Families living under poverty to be aided with appropriate support system to enable
them to become self-reliant;