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Climate Change and its impact in Thailand: A short overview on actual and potential impacts of the changing climate in Southeast Asia
In 2011, Thailand was underwater: more than one million people were affected by severe flooding for several weeks as a result of persistent rainfall (World Bank, 2011). In 2015-...
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INGO key messages for the 2014 round table implementation meeting
The Lao PDR INGO network's key messages, including comments on governance, food security, nutrition, health, education, and economic growth.
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Community Management of Mekong River Resources in Laos
Local fishers living in Khong district, Champasak province, where over 100 villages on the islands in the Mekong or are situated on the banks of the river, have reported severe ...
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Status assessment of community fisheries in Cambodia, 2023
This report presents the results of the 2023 National Community Fisheries (CFi) Status Assessment, led by the Fisheries Administration (FiA) Community Fisheries Development Depa...
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Tackling illegal logging and the related trade what progress and where next ?
This report is the culmination of the multi-year ‘Indicators of Illegal Logging’ project, in which Chatham House has sought to monitor and understand what progress is being made...
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Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Framework for Action
Building on Thailand’s Revised Information Paper/Matrix: Compilation of Possible Complementarities between the ASEAN Community Blueprints 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainabl...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: how are the world's forests changing? [2016]
Sustainably managed forests provide essential goods and services and thus play a vital part in sustainable development. Reliable and up-to-date information on the state of for...
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Does Land Tenure Security Enhance Sustainable Land Management? Evidence from Mountainous Regions of Thailand and Vietnam
Neoclassical theory states that land tenure security plays an important role in determining long-term investment for sustainable land use. The case studies from Thailand and Vie...
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Roadmap for the 10YFP implementation in Asia and the Pacific 2014-2015
One of the foreseen outputs of the “First Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on the 10YFP” (7-8 November 2013, Bangkok, Thailand) was the development of a Roadmap for the 10YFP imple...
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Decree on trading of goods, construction, repairs and services with public funds
Decree on trading of goods, construction, repairs and services with public funds
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Assessing outcomes of rural development in northern Laos 2015
Main sources of qualitative and quantitative data collected on NU-IRD P’s participation, satisfaction and outcome trends were villagers’ and district staff’s perception...
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Forest strategy until 2020 of Lao PDR.
Forest strategy until 2020 of Lao PDR.
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Forests and Forestry in the Greater Mekong Subregion to 2020
In the 12 years since the first Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study was completed in 1998, the region has experienced tremendous changes in nearly every aspect. These cha...
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Banks Investing in the Military Cartel_BankTrack and Justice for Myanmar
Updated analysis conducted by BankTrack and Justice For Myanmar, which now includes asset managers and subsidiary funds, has found that nineteen internationally operating banks ...
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Myanmar and the Natural Resource Charter: 28 Priority Issues for the Extractive Industry
The Myanmar EITI process provides the first multi-stakeholder forum for discussion of the extractives industries and its impacts within the country. Under the coordination of th...
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The Education Youth and Sport Performance in the Academic Year 2015-2016 and Goals for the Academic Year 2016-2017
Annual Education Congress has provided all stakeholders with the opportunities to review work progress and challenges and to set directions for the year ahead. Sub-sectoral achi...
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Assessment of Public–Private Partnerships in Cambodia Constraints and Opportunities
The Cambodian economy recovered strongly after the financial crisis in 2008, with increasing levels of foreign direct investment (FDI). The country has many attractive features ...
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Mapping Knowledge and Gaps in Data, Transparency, and Capacity Building Practices in the Mekong Region
USAID Mekong for the Future (MFF) commissioned the East-West Management Institute’s Open Development Initiative (ODI) to map the data ecosystem in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democra...
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Linking FLEGT and REDD+ Processes in Practice
The European Union’s FLEGT Action Plan – which aims to reduce trade in illegal timber -, and REDD+ constitute two recent international forest regimes. Since the aims of the regi...
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Status of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, territories and resources in Asia
Indigenous Peoples, because of their subordination and distinctiveness from mainstream cultures and polities, have been and still are subjected to gross human rights violations,...