Officially recognising the link between poor infrastructure and governance with low productivity and market access, the Vision 2020 states that the “inability of governments to control floods and river bank erosion causes damage to properties and lives of millions of people every year in the region” and goes on to add that “if the quest for ethnic and cultural identities has sowed the seeds, frustration and dissatisfaction from seclusion, backwardness and unresponsive governance have provided fertile ground for breeding armed insurgencies”.