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Road and railway networks and market density
The Commune Database is produced by the NCDD (National Committee for Subnational Democratic Development). This file contains excerpts of the Database, namely the road and railwa...
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WHO Dengue situation update 557
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. Dengue is a rapidly em...
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Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints
This paper examines Cambodia’s socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country’s economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict ...
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Biodiversity, Human Rights and Business in Myanmar
This briefing paper explores the relationship between biodiversity, human rights, society and business in Myanmar, with particular reference to the oil and gas, mining and touri...
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Lao PDR environment monitor
The Lao Environment Monitor is the first of a series of monitors presenting a snapshot of environmental status and key trends and challenges in Lao PDR.
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Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress and Potentials
This paper is the main output of a research project initiated by Pyoe Pin, and led by ECCDI with support from the University of East Anglia, whose aim has been to fill the gap i...
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Myanmar Enterprise Survey 2014: Early Findings
The World Bank Group's Enterprise Survey in Myanmar finds that reforms of the country’s investment climate are urgent across a number of areas, especially access to finance, lan...
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Transport Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
This transport sector assessment, strategy, and road map (ASR) guides the formulation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) assistance to the transport sector in the Lao People’s Demo...
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Carbon stock assessment using remote sensing and forest inventory data in Savannakhet, Lao PDR
Savannakhet Province, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (PDR), is a small area that is connected to Thailand, other areas of Lao PDR, and Vietnam via road No. 9. This province has...
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How land concessions affect places elsewhere: Telecoupling, political ecology, and large-scale plantations in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
This study investigates the implications of large-scale land concessions in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia with regard to places outside of actual concession areas, bot...
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Study on communal land registration in Lao PDR
Field visits to over twenty villages in five different provinces of the Lao PDR have shown that across all ethnic groups, communities use and manage communal lands. Types of lan...
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Using Open Data and Digital Mapping to Aggregate Evidence for Identifying and Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Lands and Resources in Cambodia
This paper examines the threats posed to the lands and resources of indigenous peoples in Cambodia, and the difficult process of obtaining communal land titles. It explores the ...
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Formalising Land, Marginalising Women? Norms and Customary Practices Regarding Land Rights in Dawei
In 2012, the Farmland Law introduced a process for registering land through Land Use Certificates. The change from a customary form of land governance to a system governed throu...
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Briefing Paper on Research on Agricultural Investments
Agricultural investments are crucial to improve productivity and to raise the incomes and food security. Investments by small-holder farmers themselves are the main source of ag...
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Tracking progress towards National Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals
Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will require countries to adapt global targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and incorporate these into na...
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Rubber tree distribution mapping in northeast Thailand
An article presenting the results of rubber tree growth mapping in northeast Thailand using Landsat 5 TM data. A Mahalanobis typicality method was used to identify different age...
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Rice contract farming in Lao PDR: Moving from subsistence to commercial agriculture
Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is eme...
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WHO Executive Board, 144: Health, environment and climate change: draft WHO global strategy on health, environment and climate change
This draft strategy aims to provide a vision and way forward on how the world and its health community need to respond to environmental health risks and challenges until 2030, a...
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Sustainable Development Goals in Cambodia: Citizen Survey 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) list the 17 key areas that must be included in national and international policy-making, in order to reduce poverty, fight inequality an...
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Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)
This dataset contains data of eight types of protected areas in Cambodia (national park, wildlife sanctuary, protected landscape, multiple use, natural heritage site, Ramsar sit...