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Employment, wages and productivity trends in the Asian garment sector: Data and policy insights for the future of work
The report takes stock of employment, wages and productivity in the Asian garment sector by exploring data and policy insights to highlight trends, patterns and ways forward for...
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World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific
This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22. It includes a section summarizing the status of social protection worl...
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Indo-Burma Wetland Outlook 2022: Towards Wise Use of Indo-Burma's Wetlands
Understanding the current situation of wetlands in the region is key to effectively integrating wetlands within countries' agendas on biodiversity, climate change adaptation and...
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2022: Leveraging Automation in Agriculture for Transforming Agrifood Systems
This report dives deep into a reality of agriculture: the sector is undergoing profound technological change at an accelerating pace. New technologies, unimaginable just a few y...
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Prospects and drivers for agricultural change in the Mekong region. The case of sugar, rice and rubber
This paper highlights the most imminent threats to the Mekong eco-region, with a particular focus on likely changes in the production of sugarcane, rice and rubber as well as ot...
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Mountain agriculture: Opportunities for harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia
Mountain food security and nutrition are core issues that can contribute positively to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals but paradoxically are often ignored i...
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U4: Corruption and water governance in the Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin is shared between six countries and displays remarkable and globally relevant cultural and biological diversity. Its natural resources are largely governe...
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Raising Standards: Data and Artificial Intelligence in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia has the opportunity to redefine inclusive development for the region by raising standards for data and ethical AI through multistakeholder approaches. If the curr...
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation on Environmental Impact Assessment in Mainland Southeast Asia
This article begins from the premise that there are potential benefits to transnational cooperation to address environmental impacts, whether they are felt within a single count...
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Women and Rivers Storytelling Platform Co-Design and Profiles Report
The Women and Rivers Storytelling Platform emerged as an idea during the Women and Rivers Congress - Asia in 2020, that women need a place to connect with each other to share kn...
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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2016
The thematic focus of the 2016 edition of the Global Report investigates how migrants and refugees can be vulnerable to trafficking in persons en route or at destination. This f...
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Trafficking in Persons Report: July 2022
This is a report on human trafficking as of July 2022 by the US Department of State. This year’s country narratives prioritize integrating an equity-based approach, including by...
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Open Budget Survey (LMCs) - 2021
The International Budget Partnership conducts a survey called the Open Budget Survey. The Open Budget Survey is the world’s only comparative, independent, and regular assessmen...
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2019
This is a report on human trafficking as of 2019 by the US Depertment of State
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IUCN Red List for the Lower Mekong
Data from the The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015-4 and updated to include list from 2021, showing the total number of animal species in each category of the Red List, ...
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COVID19 and Impacts on Environmental Human Rights Defenders and Environmental Protection in Southeast Asia: A regional analysis of legislative and political trends in 2020.
This report examines the positive and negative impacts of the decrees, laws and other government policies on environmental rights that were either enacted in response to COVID-1...
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e-ASEAN Framework Agreement
For the purposes of this Agreement the following terms shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings indicated below: (a) “Information and Communications Tec...
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Political declaration of the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the General Assembly
Resolution on the way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. UN gearing up for a decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.
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1st ODI Virtual Meetup: Data Storytelling and Literacy during the Pandemic
ODI developed the open data portal ODM to increase the data ecosystem in the region, specifically to increase evidence-based decision making based upon reliable and accurate dat...
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Cybersecurity in the Mekong region: An Analysis of the Legal Framework and Recommendations for the Protection of Indigenous Environmental Human Rights Defenders
This article reviews the existing legal frameworks regulating cyber security and its applications in the Mekong countries with special focus on IEHRDs; to identify specific risk...