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Making Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance Work: New Opportunities From the SDG Perspectives
Surveillance of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) exemplifies a One Health approach, which entails coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approaches to...
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Summary of evaluation of dengue strategic plan for the Asia Pacific region 2008-2015
In 2008, the fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific endorsed the Dengue Strategic Plan for the Asia Pacific Region 2008–2015. This served as a...
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The Kheshorter: Indigenous Karen’s Community Forest
To mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN) and the Kawthoolei Forestry Department (KFD) of the...
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Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018 – Accelerating progress towards the SDGs.
Progress in reducing undernourishment has slowed tremendously. FAO’s estimates show that the number of hungry people has barely changed during the past two years, making it...
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Regional Report on Nutrition Security in ASEAN, Volume 2
In 2014, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published the “Regional Report on Nutrition Security in ASEAN, Volume 1”,...
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Regional report on nutrition security in ASEAN, Volume 1
The association of Southeast asian nations, or ASEAN, aims to accelerate economic growth and social progress by promoting active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters...
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2019 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger and Climate Change
The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger...
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Malnutrition Gap as a New Measure of Child Malnutrition : A Global Application
“Leaving no one behind” is an overarching principle of the Sustainable Development Goals. Many countries are prioritizing resources for those who are furthest behind. Existing...
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What Mekong Delta Communities Can Teach Us About Access to Safe Water
This article discusses the water situation in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. It discusses water quality, water sources, current research, educational gaps and how communities respond...
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BTI 2016: Myanmar country report
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates the quality of democracy, a market economy and political management in 129 developing and transition...
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An Analysis of Poverty in Myanmar: Trends between 2004/05 and 2015
The Myanmar Poverty and Living Conditions Survey (MPLCS) was conducted in early 2015 on a nationally representative sample of households. The survey was undertaken through a...
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Land tenure data in Thailand
This article reviews land tenure Systems and land tenure data in Thailand in order to illustrate the importance of such information for policy-making. The article also discusses...
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Beneficial Ownership: Tackling Hidden Company Ownership Through Myanmar's EITI Process
This paper focuses on a new and ground-breaking provision of EITI: a requirement for the identities of the real owners – the ‘beneficial owners’ – of extractive industry...
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Myanmar Annual Hospital Statistics Reports
This report is intended to provide information regarding reporting status of the public and private hospitals, availability and utilization of hospital services, performance of...
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Fiscal Decentralization in Myanmar: Towards a Roadmap for Reform
This discussion paper by Hamish Nixon and Cindy Joelene intends to inform the wider discussion about how best to proceed with fiscal decentralization in Myanmar. Its goal is to...
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Lords of Jade
Myanmar’s jade business may be the biggest natural resource heist in modern history. The sums of money involved are almost incomprehensibly high and the levels of accountability...
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Myanmar Oil & Gas Sector Wide Impact Assessment
The Oil & Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA), developed by the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) in partnership with its co-founders, the Institute of...
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Jade: Myanmar's "Big State Secret"
Drawing on over a year of investigations, this report shows for the first time how a multi-billion dollar trade in one of the planet’s most precious gemstones is tightly...
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Sharing the Wealth: A Roadmap for Distributing Myanmar’s Natural Resource Revenues
This discussion paper outlines options available under the current legal structure to help the new leadership fulfill its commitment to decentralize natural resource revenues....
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Myanmar Health Statistics 2010
This publication attempts to provide, in a simple and user-friendly way, the most sought-after health and health related information to a wide-ranging array of audience, both...