JAKARTA, 20 March 2024 –The ASEAN Lead Implementing Body for Sustainable Infrastructure (LIB-SI), the Australian Government’s Partnerships for Infrastructure (P4I) initiative, and the ASEAN Secretariat co-organised the Workshop on Women’s Leadership and Gender Mainstreaming in Infrastructure today. Over 80 participants from ASEAN and Australia, including representatives from LIB-SI, ASEAN Committee on Women (ACW), and line ministries …
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JAKARTA, 19 March 2024 – The Lead Implementing Body for Sustainable Infrastructure (LIB-SI) convened its 13th Meeting today at the ASEAN Secretariat, with participation by ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat, and Timor-Leste as Observer. This meeting was LIB-SI’s first meeting under Lao PDR’s 2024 ASEAN Chairmanship with the theme of “ASEAN: Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience”. During …
JAKARTA/NAIROBI, 7 March 2024 — ASEAN and the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) continue to strengthen cooperation to support ASEAN Member States (AMS) in advancing sustainable urbanisation development in the region through the joint implementation of the “Accelerating the Implementation of the ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Strategy (ASUS) – Phase II” (ASUS Project – Phase II). The …
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JAKARTA, 30 March 2022 – The United Kingdom (UK), Lead Implementing Body for Sustainable Infrastructure (LIB-SI), and the ASEAN Secretariat, co-organised the UK-ASEAN Sustainable Leadership in Infrastructure Conference yesterday, online and in-person in Singapore. More than 200 participants, including officials and representatives from ASEAN Member States, the United Kingdom, as well as other external partners …
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ASEAN in collaboration with UN-Habitat organised the ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Forum (ASUF) on 6-8 October 2021. The virtual event brought together more than 80 experts and speakers across the region and attracted over 1,400 registered participants from 48 countries. The event hosted a series of sessions of diverse nature, creating space for rich dialogues on …
The potential of ASEAN’s digital economy is immense with over 400 million internet users or 70 percent of ASEANs population in 2020. Even Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across the region are now taking advantage of e-commerce to reach new customers. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of e-commerce. According to a recent …
The Davao International Container Terminal (DICT) in Panabo Port, Davao del Norte, Philippines completed the new station, Berth 2, in July 2016. The Berth 2 is hoped to double its annual capacity to more than 70,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)-the ships cargo carrying capacity. The DICT also boasts to be the most modern container port …
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JAKARTA, 14 March 2018 – The inaugural meeting of the Lead Implementing Body for the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity MPAC 2025 Strategic Area on Sustainable Infrastructure (LIB-SI) was held on 14 March at the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. The establishment of the LIB-SI is a milestone as ASEAN intensifies infrastructure development efforts and cooperation in …