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Voices from the Ground: Concerns over the Dawei Special Economic Zone and related projects
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Dawei Development Association
2014
This report examines the Dawei Special Economic Zone (DSEZ) project in Southern Myanmar, which, if realized, would be one of the largest petrochemical industrial estates in Sout...
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The Urgent Need to Prepare for Climate Displacement in Myanmar: Establishing a Myanmar National Climate Land Bank
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
EcoDev, Displacement Solutions
2018
This report provides a summary of the findings from two preliminary case studies of communities considered potentially vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather events and cl...
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific: Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
UN Women
The webpage provides an overview of the state of gender equality in Lao PDR, as well as challenges the country faces.
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Emerging Issues for the Sustainable Development of Vietnam in the Context of Global Change
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Truong Quang Hoc
2016
Over the last 20 years of sustainable development, Viet Nam has been certainly successful. However, the achievements have not met the potential of the country particularly in th...
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Assessing the impact of social land concession on rural livelihoods in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UNOHCHR in Cambodia
2018
This report accessed the impact of social land concession on rural livelihoods of the concessionaires and the affected people in 6 locations of SLC from 6 provinces in Cambodia....
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The standard of living of garment workers in Cambodia: its determinants and workers' perception
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chansamphors, Chieck, Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
2008
Since the mid 1990s, the rapid growing garment factories around Phnom Penh have provided many employment opportunities for young female women from rural areas. Previous research...
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Contribution of Open Data to the Protection of Indigenous People’s Livelihood, Land Security and Natural Resource Sustainability
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ratana Pen, Mane Yun, Try Thy, Heinrich Boell Foundation Cambodia;...
2017
The overall objective of this paper is to follow up on the research that aims to understand how indigenous communities’statistics have been widely used in development projects i...
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The role of customary law and practices in forest and water resources management and use
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Culture Identity and Resources Use Management
2011
The study of customary law in forest and water resources management and use of the Thai ethnic group (Thai Den group) was conducted in Muong Phang commune, Dien Bien Phu city, D...
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A model of the science–practice–policy interface in participatory land-use planning: lessons from Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Landscape Ecology
2014
An essential task of participatory action research is to help close the policy implementation gap that leads to large discrepancies between policy frameworks and l...
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The role of civil society in promoting democracy, good governance, peace and national reconciliation in Myanmar
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Sang, Lian Thang Peter
2013
This thesis is a qualitative study investigating and analyzing the role of civil society (CS) in promoting democracy, good governance, peace and national reconciliation in Myanm...
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Atlas of agriculture in the Lao PDR: Patterns and trends between 1999 & 2011
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Epprecht, Michael, Anne-Kathrin Weber, Rasso Bernhard, Khamlouang...
2018
This atlas of agriculture presents a comprehensive spatial analysis of the agricultural activities and production patterns in the Lao PDR in 2011, and the respective changes dur...
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Improved tools and strategies for the prevention and control of arboviral diseases: A research-to-policy forum
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Olliaro P, Fouque F, Kroeger A, Bowman L, Velayudhan R, Santelli AC, et al
2018
Research has been conducted on interventions to control dengue transmission and respond to outbreaks. A summary of the available evidence will help inform disease control policy...
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The Millennium Development Goals and lessons learnt for the post-2015 period
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Lao PDR
2015
An analysis at programs started by the Lao government in order to meet targets set by the Millennium Development Goals, and how the shortcomings can be instructive for future pr...
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Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UNEP
2016
Recognizing the value of large marine ecosystems (LMEs) and other transboundary water systems (open ocean, groundwater aquifers, lakes and reservoirs, and river basins), their c...
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Data for Development: The Road Ahead
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Fabrizio Scrollini, Katie Clancy, Silvana Fumega and Ana Sofia Ruiz
2020
This report is the result of the Data, Artificial Intelligence and Society workshop that took place in Montevideo, Uruguay in March 2020 and was co-hosted by ILDA and IDRC. The ...
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illegal-pesticide-trade-in-the-mekong-countries-case-of-lao-pdr
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Vázquez, Chela
2013
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Turning land into capital a review of recent research on land concessions for investment in Lao PDR part 1 of 2 – Existing literature
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Mike Dwyer,, University of California, Berkeley
2007
A land concession is the limited conceding of a land-based right (or rights) by the state to an investor in order to lower the investor’s assumed risk to a level that will permi...
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An impact assessment of farmers's acceptability of farming systems research activities in Namo District, Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Chanphasouk Tanthaphone, Asian Institute of Technology School of...
2017
In the study areas project and non-project villages upland rice, maize and vegetables remain the major practice. The rubber is the most favored crop of farmers due to high deman...
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Using spatial data tools to support the development and sustainability of social land concessions for the landless or land-poor in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Try Thy, David Hindley, Prum Punwath
2018
Cambodia has many landless or land-poor people. The government introduced a system of social land concessions (SLCs) where families receive land to build a home and grow food. ...
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Country gender assessment of agriculture and the rural sector in Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
FAO
2019
The Country Gender Assessment (CGA) was commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from October 2017 to February 2018 as a way to gauge Vi...