The ACPR, in its advisory role to the Executive Secretary, maintains a continuation of the dialogue between the ESCAP Secretariat and member governments. ACPR establishes, with the assistance of the Secretariat, a work plan for the duration of one commission session to the next together with a list of tentative items to be discussed.

Through ESCAP resolution 70/2 (E/ESCAP/RES/70/2) on Disaster-related statistics in Asia and the Pacific, the Commission established an expert group comprising statisticians and disaster risk reduction experts to work towards developing a basic range of disaster-related statistics in support of policy development.

The Interim Intergovernmental Steering Group on Cross-border Paperless Trade Facilitation was established by ESCAP Commission Resolution 70/6: Implementation of the decision of the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Meeting on a Regional Arrangement for the Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade. 

The Steering Group is mandated to:

Partners for Statistics Development in Asia-Pacific (the Partnership) is a regional network of international, regional and sub-regional organizations and bilateral donors concerned with the improvement of statistics in Asia and the Pacific. The main purpose of the partnership is to improve the combined impact of capacity building activities through enhanced coordination, synergy and complementarity among partners.