The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development attempts to address the complex and urgent challenges of poverty, growing inequality, climate change, conflict and fragility. Its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place gender equality as a precondition for ensuring dignity and respect for all. The ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are complementary, calling for a people- centred approach and leaving no on behind. In 2017, ASEAN demonstrated its strong commitment to achieve gender equality and the SDGs in its Declaration on the Gender-Responsive Implementation of the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and Sustainable Development Goals, which was adopted at the ASEAN Summit and endorsed at the highest level by Heads of State. 1 This commitment has been reaffirmed several times since, including on 26 June 2020 in the Chairman’s Statement of the 36th ASEAN Summit, and the Chairman’s Press Statement of ASEAN’s Leaders’ Special Session at the 36th ASEAN Summit on Women’s Empowerment in the Digital Age. Thus, there is recognition among ASEAN leaders that gender equality is fundamental for the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.