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Measuring Capacity
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UNDP
2015
What is the measure of capacity? This paper on Measuring Capacity attempts to help development practitioners unbundle this question. First, by defining the starting point: an in...
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Partnering for Sustainable Development Guidelines for Multi-stakeholder Partnerships to Implement the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
UNESCAP, UNU-IAS
2018
In answering the call of the 2030 Agenda and of Sustainable Development Goal 17 for revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development, the Economic and Social Comm...
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Advancing partnerships for the implementation of the regional road map for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
UNESCAP
In accordance with paragraph 39 of the regional road map for implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, reviews of progress on implementat...
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Coping with resettlement: A livelihood adaptation analysis in the Mekong River basin
Mekong
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Yumiko Kura, Olivier Joffre, Benoit Laplante, and Bounthong Sengvilaykham
2017
A major driver of change in the Mekong River basin relates to hydropower development and the consequent changes in landscape and natural resource access regime that it induces. ...
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Thai flood 2011 : rapid assessment for resilient recovery and reconstruction planning : Overview (English)
Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank
2012
This report outlines these findings, including damage and loss estimates and social and economic impacts, and proposes strategies for resilient recovery and reconstruction plann...
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Assessing the global distribution of river fisheries harvest: a systematic map protocol
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Chelsie L. Romulo, Zeenatul Basher, Abigail J. Lynch, Yu-Chun Kao...
2017
Although surface freshwater comprises < 0.01% of the total water volume of earth, freshwater inland capture fisheries and aquaculture represent 40% of the global reported finfis...
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The Mekong River Commission: Does it work, and how does the Mekong Basin’s geography influence its effectiveness?
Mekong
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ellen Backer Bruzelius
2007
This article assesses the effectiveness of the Mekong River Commission, its impact on the policies of its members, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Viet Nam, and their engagement...
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Decision No.135/1998/QD-TTg approving the program on socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties
Viet Nam
135/1998/QĐ-TTg
Decision
July 31, 1998
The decision aims to quickly improve the material and spiritual life of the ethnic minority people in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties: crea...
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Monitoring the Quantity of Water Flowing Through the Upper Mekong Basin Under Natural (Unimpeded) Conditions
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mekong, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Alan Basist and Claude Williams, Eyes on Earth, Inc. and Global...
2020
This study developed a reliable and simple model that predicts the natural flow of the Upper Mekong, then used this prediction to determine how the cascade of dams built on the ...
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Blocking a Bloodline: Indigenous Communities along the Tanintharyi River Fear the Impacts of Large Scale Dams
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Candle Light Youth Group, Southern Youth and Tarkapaw Youth
2019
There are a total of 76 villages, 6,118 households and 32,008 people living directly along the Tanintharyi River, who depend on it as a vital source of food security, water, tra...
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2018 Right to Information in Asia Pacific: How 11 countries perform on SDG 16.10
Cambodia, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ádám Földes with contributions from the relevant Transparency...
2018
This report provides a general assessment of the right to information laws of these countries, compares the quality of their most important features and evaluates nine key areas...
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A Dangerous Unselfishness – Learning from Strike Actions
Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kate Sheill, Suluck Fai Lamubol, Trimita Chakma, and Zar Zar Tun
2019
We are living in an era of unprecedented wealth coupled with unprecedented inequality. Richest one percent of the global population owns the 82% of the wealth created in 2017.2 ...
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Women's Land Rights and Agrarian Change: Evidence from Indigenous Communities in Cambodia
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Margherita Maffii, Independent Gender Specialist, Clara Mi Young...
2019
This research analyses the ways in which current changes in land tenure, agrarian and socio-economic systems are reshaping resource allocations and transfers within households ...
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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against economic slowdowns and downturns.
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),...
2019
This year’s report presents evidence that the absolute number of people who suffer from hunger continues to slowly increase. The report also highlights that food insecurity is m...
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River, Knowledge, Threat: Local Knowledge Based Research in Tanintharyi River Basin
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tanintharyi River and Indigenous People Network (TRIPNET)
2019
The report shows the result of four years of collaborative work by indigenous Karen people from multiple forest-dependent communities in the Tanintharyi River basin. It is commu...
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Impacts of Mainstream Hydropower Dams on Fisheries and Agriculture in Lower Mekong Basin
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Yuichiro Yoshida, Han Soo Lee, Bui Huy Trung , Hoang-Dung Tran,...
2020
This paper, however, discusses the fishery and agricultural sectors of the LMB and focuses on the downstream floodplains of Cambodia and Vietnam. The dam construction has caused...
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A Victory for Indigenous People The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Asia, Global
Advocacy and promotional materials
De Chavez, Raymond , Tebtebba
2007
This dataset has no description
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A Pan African Indigenous People's Conference on Adaptation & Mitigation
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
This dataset has no description
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The effects of hydropower dams on the hydrology of the Mekong Basin
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
WLE Greater Mekong, Hecht, J. and Lacombe, G
2014
A research paper by Hecht, J. and Lacombe, G on The effects of hydropower dams on the hydrology of the Mekong Basin published in 2014 by CGIAR Research Program - WLE Greater Mek...
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Evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ratha Chea, Gaël Grenouillet, Sovan Lek, CNRS, Université Toulouse...
2016
A report analysis by Ratha Chea, Gaël Grenouillet, Sovan Lek on evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map, published in the Low...