Skills-based capacity building and training programs have helped to teach trades and vocational capabilities, and socio-educational organizations have emerged to help provide guidance and extra-curricular activities to individuals and children who may otherwise be at risk of recruitment into extremist groups, be that through lack of other options or economic coercion.
In this context, we also welcomed the establishment of the Singapore-US Third Country Training Program, which also offers relevant capacity building programs for ASEAN Member States.