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Women Migration and Women's Land Tenure Security in the greater Mekong sub-region
This report considers the interlinkages between migration, gender, and land tenure. The study on which the report is based explored how migration affects women’s land tenure...
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Deciphering Myanmar's Ethnic Landscape:A Brief Historical and Ethnic Description of Myanmar’s Administrative Units
Myanmar is home to immense ethnic diversity, which has been at the core of questions relating to national identity, governance arrangements and constitutional design. The recent...
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Making it happen: Technology, finance and statistics for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific
This 2014/15 report, Making It Happen, assesses the state of progress on the MDGs, but then considers how we can move towards the SDGs. The report is based on a series of...
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Dynamic land use change in Sing District, Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR
Sing district is the northern most districts in Luang Namtha province bordering China and Burma. The current study examines demographic change, and its impact on land use in...
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To create wealth with the right land use.
To create wealth with the right land use.
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5-year preliminary review of implementation of the Agriculture Sector Restructuring Scheme towards improving added value and sustainable development
The report consists of 2 parts: - Part 1. Assessment of the implementation of agricultural restructuring - Part 2. Agriculture restructuring plan to 2020
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Suggested approaches for integration inclusive development across the program cycle and in mission operations
This guidance document explains what inclusive development is and why it is important to USAID’s work. It also serves as a framework for applying various USAID policies and...
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Challenges and Opportunities for Social Protection in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
This project brief discusses the state of social protection in Lao PDR.
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတောင်ပိုင်းမှအသံများ- မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးဦးပိုင်လီမီတက်၏ ကန်ပေါက် ဆီအုန်းမြေနှင့်ဆီအုန်းစက်ရုံလုပ်ငန်း
ယခုလက်ရှိဆောင်ရွက်နေသောစာတမ်းသည် တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးရေဖြူမြို့နယ် ရှိ ဆီအုန်းကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခု၏ အခြေအနေကို ၎င်းဆီအုန်းကုမ္ပဏီမှ ရှင်းပြထားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ၎င်းတွင် ရွာသူရွာသားများ။ ...
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Improving forest governance in the Mekong region
This report identifies opportunities for regional activities to improve forest governance and combat logging in the Mekong countries. The report is based on a series of...
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Transboundary water conflicts, a case study: Yali hydropower dam construction in Vietnam
A report about the challenges in assessing environmental impacts of large dams along international rivers, using the case study of the Yali dam. The author argues that the...
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Women in the Workforce: An Unmet Potential in Asia and the Pacific
This report shows that the low labor force participation of women is intimately related to how they allocate time between market and nonmarket activities. Indeed, in deciding...
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Investment and access to land and natural resources: Challenges in promoting sustainable development
land concessions have accumulated their fair share of criticisms and challenges
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Assessment and prospect of China-Laos development cooperation 2016
Assessment and prospect of China-Laos development cooperation 2016
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Electricity in Myanmar: The missing prerequisite for development
A paper about electricity in Myanmar and its effect on development. Electricity consumption per capita in Myanmar is among the lowest in Asia and had been growing very slowly...
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The Sixth National Economic and Social Development Plan (1987-1991)
The principal goals of the Sixth Plan are to raise national development to a level that will enable the country to progress and prosper in the future and to solve the economic...
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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practices of Gold Mining Industry In Cambodia
This report examines the practices of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles and other related compliance within Cambodia's gold industry. The findings,...
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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...
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Measuring SDG Progress in Asia and the Pacific: Is there enough data? Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2017
The analysis in this report is done for two primary purposes. The first is to inform key stakeholders of the specific goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for which progress...
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Decree No. 38 / PM on the Development of Forestry and Natural Resources Fund, Vientiane, 21 February 2005
Decree No. 38 / PM on the Development of Forestry and Natural Resources Fund, Vientiane, 21 February 2005