3. MPAC 2025 seeks to add value by complementing and synergising the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025, ASEAN sectoral work plans, and the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI) Work Plan III, as well as enhancing synergies with other sub-regional and inter-regional frameworks, in five ways (Exhibit 2): Exhibit 2 How does MPAC 2025 add value to the ASEAN sectoral work plans? Area of value Description 1 Additionality MPAC 2025 may create new initiatives (not in the sectoral plans) that are considered crucial for improving physical, institutional, or people-topeople connectivity. 2 Breadth MPAC 2025 may expand the coverage of initiatives in existing sectoral plans so that they include the areas identified to be important from a connectivity perspective. 3 Coordination MPAC 2025 can help ensure effective coordination of initiatives that cut across multiple working groups to maximise the likelihood of successful implementation. 4 Depth For those initiatives that are considered important for connectivity, MPAC 2025 aims to maximise the likelihood of successful implementation by helping to detail out the initiatives and how to deal with potential barriers to success. 5 Emphasis For initiatives that are considered important for connectivity, and for which a clear action plan is already in place, MPAC 2025 will seek to highlight the importance of these initiatives. 16 MASTER PLAN ON ASEAN CONNECTIVITY 2025

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