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  • A Political Economy of Environmental Impact Assessment in the Mekong Region

    Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a central process in sustainable development to reduce and mitigate anticipated impacts of development projects. Every national governme...

  • A Visit to the Mother River

    The Mekong, which local people call their Mother River (or Mae Khong), is central to Chiang Khong’s way of life. However, its environment has been damaged as special economic zo...

  • Mekong Communities Speak Out for Their Natural Heritage

    More than 500 people gathered along the banks of the Mekong River in Chiang Khong, Thailand on February 5 to take a stand against plans to blast away the Khon Pi Luang rapids ju...

  • Women's Land Rights and Agrarian Change: Evidence from Indigenous Communities in Cambodia

    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 ...

  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against economic slowdowns and downturns.

    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...

  • Mekong Youth Assembly and International Rivers Submission to John Knox, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment

    The Mekong Youth Assembly and International Rivers are pleased to provide this submission to John Knox, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment...

  • PR | UN Envoys Report Concern over Don Sahong Dam Impacts to Human Rights Council

    he United Nations Special Procedures have raised serious concerns over the human rights impacts of the controversial Don Sahong Dam under construction on the Mekong River in Lao...

  • A Matter of Rights in the Future of the Mekong

    The United Nations Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council recently published the outcome of communications on the human rights impacts of the Don Sahong Dam. The Don Sah...

  • A Shared Commitment to the Future of the Mekong River

    Standing under the scorching sun along the banks of the Mekong River, more than one hundred people gathered on March 14 to celebrate the International Day of Action for Rivers. ...

  • Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Deep Sea port, Tanintharyi, Myanmar

    The Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and deep-sea port, if realized, would be one of the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia. Since the beginning, the project has fueled mass...

  • Aligning public financial management and health financing: sustaining progress toward universal health coverage

    The paper considers how public financial management (PFM) and health financing systems can be better aligned in support of universal health coverage (UHC). It provides a framewo...

  • ODA by sector to LMCs

    This chart, created by ODM, shows each sector's percentage in total ODA from 2016 to 2017 of LMCs.

  • Global Education Monitoring Report 2016, Education for People and Planet: Creating Sustainable Futures for All

    The 2016 GEM Report is the first of a new 15-year series. It shows that education will not deliver its full potential to catapult the world forward unless participation rates dr...

  • Global Education Monitoring Report Gender Review 2018: Meeting our Commitments to Gender Equality in Education

    In this sixth Gender Review, in a series that began in 2011, the Global Education Monitoring Report team maintains the focus on a broad conception of gender equality that extend...

  • Mysterious Mekong: New Species Discoveries 2012-2013

    An extraordinary 367 new species were discovered in the Greater Mekong in 2012 and 2013. Among the species newly described by scientists are 290 plants, 24 fish, 21 amphibians, ...

  • An investor’s guide to responsible development: An MPE primer on investment in the Mekong Region

    Quality investment depends on everyone working together to ensure socially and environmentally responsible practices. There’s an increasing awareness among government, business ...