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The report is the first global assessment of the scope of human trafficking and what is being done to fight it.

The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) represents an opportunity for sustainable and low carbon development for Lao PDR. The government can build on the existing po...

This report covers key development trends and results achieved under the UN Development Assistance Framework 2012-2016, as well as challenges, lessons learned and way forward. I...

The report contains assessment of commodity and trade issue in Thailand in 2015. The report covers three different crops including rice, corn and wheat which deeply analysed the...

Since early 2000s, the dramatically increased use of heavy mining machinery in Myanmar has enabled the extraction of minerals at an unprecedented speed. Impacts on local communi...

This report summarizes human trafficking situations in the global setting. It focuses on effective ways local communities can address human trafficking proactively and on how na...

The recommendations given in this document were developed during the consultation workshop entitled. “Promotion of Equity in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Deg...

Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower r...

This is a fact sheet published by the UN Human Rights Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights and Human Trafficking. The piece provides a definition of trafficking, states' o...

The national Violence against Children Survey – the first of its kind in Lao PDR – was implemented by the Lao Statistics Bureau and the National Commission for Mothers and Child...

This report covers human trafficking within Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Afterwards, further observations and intervention methods are covered.

This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors interests and strategies across scales and how they are clos...

This paper aims to extract lessons from development partners’ engagement in Myanmar to offer suggestions for improved subnational governance and balanced regional development. T...

In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...

Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...

Members of parliament play a key role in monitoring the implementation of oil, gas, and mineral contracts. Public disclosure of such contracts is a critical prerequisite for p...

Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...

My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...

A report exploring the impacts of the Xayaburi Dam on food security in the Mekong. The authors outline the importance of the Mekong for food security, and food concerns in reset...

The Annual Country Reviews reflect upon current land issues in the Mekong Region, and has been produced for researchers, practitioners and policy advocates operating in the fiel...