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Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity
This book shines a spotlight on the value of voice and agency, the patterns of constraints that limit their realization, and the associated costs, not only to individual women b...
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Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...
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Nature-Based Solutions for Building Resilient Cities
These examples from the Greater Mekong Subregion demonstrate approaches of immediate relevance for other towns and regions throughout Asia with extensive coastlines, riverine an...
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The Lower Mekong Dams Factsheet Text
The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong River. If built, these dams would destroy the riv...
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ASEAN 4.0: What does the Fourth Industrial Revolution mean for regional economic integration?
This paper focuses on the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to a set of h...
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Asia SME Finance Monitor 2014
The ASM reviews various aspects of SME finance within different countries. These aspects include the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. The main objectives of ...
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Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Report of the Secretary-General
Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 70/1, the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations system, has the honour to submit the report on progress towards the S...
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Generating Sustainable Energy Solutions in the Mekong River Basin
Negative effects brought on by the poor planning for hydropower development in the Mekong basin will put the 60 million people living in the Mekong basin at risk and severely im...
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Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimen...
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Navigating the way through the market: A first assessment of contract farming in Luang Namtha
Aims at evening up the responsibilities and benefits between stakeholders, whereby the farmers contribute land and labor
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Industrial rubber plantation of the Viet-Lao rubber company, Bachiang District, Champasack Province
Assessment of the environmental and social impacts created by the VLRC industrial rubber plantation, and proposed environmental and social plans to mitigate negative impacts.
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Agriculture and natural resources sector needs assessment
This document is the Inception Report for the Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector Needs Assessment (TA: 4843-LAO) to evaluate development in the ANR sector.
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Integration in spatial planning
A presentation given at a land management and sustainable development workshop in Vientiane, discussing spatial planning, its application for land utilization, and how to apply ...
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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015: SDG 12 Responsible Consumption
The Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2015 is a reference of current and emerging trends of economic, social and environmental development in Asia and the Pacific. F...
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Food Systems and Natural Resources
The authors provide solid evidence on the need to transition to more ‘resource-smart food systems’, an imperative for the achievement of at least 12 out of the 17 Sustainable De...
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Food Security
Policy brief on food security.
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Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition: Investing in Food Systems for Better Nutrition
This report presents the trends and levels of the food security and nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific region and highlights relevant policy developments to facilitate ...
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SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
During the September 2015 Sustainable Development Summit, hunger and food insecurity was one of the key topics of discussion, producing the SDG 2 – End Hunger and Achieve Food S...
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The Food Insecurity Experience Scale: Measuring food insecurity through people’s experiences
The FIES is a metric of severity of food insecurity at the household or individual level that relies on people’s direct yes/no responses to eight brief questions regarding their...
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Lower Mekong Workforce Skills Gap Analysis and Implications for Regional Growth.
This report, commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Education Data for Decision Making (EdData) II Program, focuses on ways e...