Objectives
6. To achieve the goals, the Master Plan sets out the following objectives for an enhanced ASEAN Connectivity:
• To consolidate existing work plans related to connectivity and prioritise and enhance actions, taking into account related existing sub-regional cooperation frameworks;
Physical Connectivity
• To develop an integrated and well-functioning intermodal transport, ICT and energy networks in ASEAN and the wider region;
Institutional Connectivity
• To put in place strategies, agreements, and legal and institutional mechanisms to effectively realise the ASEAN Connectivity, including those to facilitate trade in goods and services, and the appropriate types of investment policies and legal frameworks to ensure that the investments are protected to attract the private sector investments;
People-to-People Connectivity
• To develop initiatives that promote and invest in education and life-long learning, support human resource development, encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, promote ASEAN cultural exchanges, and promote tourism and the development of related industries;
Operationalisation of ASEAN Connectivity
• To establish the principles of funding, recommend appropriate funding mechanisms and provide an estimate of the required funding to develop and/or enhance the linkages identified in the Master Plan;
• To forge win-win partnerships among the public sector, the private sector, ASEAN peoples and the international community;
• To enhance the role of private sector and local communities in the implementation of the ASEAN Connectivity initiatives;
• To draw up specific timetables for realising the goals of ASEAN Connectivity which will complement the work being undertaken to realise the ASEAN Community by 2015 as well as take into account the different levels of development of ASEAN Member States; and
• To prepare capacity building cooperation arrangements in ASEAN such as the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) and other appropriate regional institutes in narrowing the development gap within the region, and in
complementing ongoing regional efforts to realise a people-oriented ASEAN Community by 2015.