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  • MRC: Basin Planning

    en Mekong Archived web content Mekong River Commission Irrigation and water management, Rivers and lakes
    This is an archived webpage discussing MRC's approach to basin planning.

  • Thai flood 2011 : rapid assessment for resilient recovery and reconstruction planning : Overview (English)

    en Thailand Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Bank 2012 Disasters
    This report outlines these findings, including damage and loss estimates and social and economic impacts, and proposes strategies for resilient recovery and reconstruction plann...

  • Decision No.135/1998/QD-TTg approving the program on socio-economic development in mountainous, deep-lying and remote communes with special difficulties

    en vi Viet Nam 135/1998/QĐ-TTg Decision July 31, 1998 Ethnic minorities and indigenous people policy and rights
    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...

  • Monitoring the Quantity of Water Flowing Through the Upper Mekong Basin Under Natural (Unimpeded) Conditions

    en 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 Climate change, Drought, Hydropower dams, Water policy and administration
    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 ...

  • Blocking a Bloodline: Indigenous Communities along the Tanintharyi River Fear the Impacts of Large Scale Dams

    en Myanmar Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Candle Light Youth Group, Southern Youth and Tarkapaw Youth 2019 Ethnic minorities and indigenous people, Hydropower dams
    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...

  • A Victory for Indigenous People The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    en Asia, Global Advocacy and promotional materials De Chavez, Raymond , Tebtebba 2007 Ethnic minorities and indigenous people, Human rights

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  • A Pan African Indigenous People's Conference on Adaptation & Mitigation

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) Adaptation, Climate change, Ethnic minorities and indigenous people, Human rights, Mitigation

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  • Social Protection Across Borders - Policy Brief October 2019

    en Cambodia, Myanmar, Viet Nam Issue and policy briefs Mekong Migration Network (MMN) 2019 Informal migration for labor, Migration
    As a network of migrant support organisations, grassroots movements, and research institutes from across the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), the Mekong Migration Network (MMN) ...

  • How China’s power companies invest overseas

    en China Archived web content Wang Yan, Li Danqing 2019 Energy, Infrastructure, Investment
    China’s power infrastructure investment comes in multiple forms, all of which entail different risks

  • The EU Timber Regulation and VPAs

    en Global Archived web content EU FLEGT Forest policy and administration, Forest protection
    This website describes the EU Timber Regulation and VPAs.

  • Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform

    en Global Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Bank Group 2019 Economic policy and administration
    Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents q...

  • The global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources

    en Global Advocacy and promotional materials EITI 2019 Extractive industries
    Based on the principle that a country’s natural resources belong to its citizens, the EITI Standard promotes the open and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources.

  • Indigenous women and climate change

    en Mekong Advocacy and promotional materials Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation Climate change, Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
    Out of the approximate 370 million total indigenous peoples in the world, 185 million are estimated to be women. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately suffering from a multi...

  • Climate change knowledge portal

    en Asia, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Global, South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Western Asia Archived web content World Bank Group Climate change, Environmental impact assessments, Public health
    In an effort to serve as the hub for climate-related information, data, and tools, the World Bank (WB) created the Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP). The Portal provides an...

  • Global health observatory data repository. Basic and safely managed drinking water services

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Dataset accessed through...
    A dataset on Basic and safely managed drinking water services. Data is sorted by country and covers time period from 2000-2017.

  • State of the Basin report 2018

    en Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mekong, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) Mekong River Commission 2019 Climate change, Environment and natural resources
    This State of the Basin Report 2018 assesses conditions within the Mekong basin and the impacts, both positive and negative, that developments and use of the water and related n...

  • Climate and health country profiles 2015: a global overview

    en Asia, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Global, South-eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Western Asia Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations) World Health Organization 2015 Climate change, Public health
    To protect health from risks derived from climate change, decision-makers (going from national leaders to individual citizens) need access to the best information possible on th...

  • Joint effects of air pollution: Ambient and household air pollution attributable death rate (per 100,000 population; age-standardized) (2016)

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through... Environment and natural resources, Public health
    As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the mortality resulting from exposure to ambient (outdoor) air pollution and household (indoor) air pollutio...

  • Burden of disease from inadequate water in low- and middle-income countries 2016

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through... Public health, Water and sanitation
    As part of a broader project to assess major risk factors to health, the burden of disease resulting from exposure to water, sanitation and hygiene was assessed. Access to impro...

  • Deaths attributable to the environment

    en Global December 3, 2019 Source: World Health Organization. Data accessed through...
    The percentage of total deaths that are attributable to the environment. It represents burden of disease that could be avoided by modifying the environment. Modifiable environme...