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Northern Thailand was once a paradise. Now forest fires have made the air worse than Beijing’s.
Thailand
Archived web content
Emily Tamkin, Washington Post
This is an archived webpage of an article on the fires in Thailand in 2019.
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Thailand: Floods and Landslides - Aug 2019
Thailand
Archived web content
ReliefWeb
This is an archived webpage of a description of the 2019 floods and landslides in Thailand.
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Viet Nam: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2019
Viet Nam
Archived web content
ReliefWeb
This is an archived webpage on the floods and landslides in Vietnam in June 2019.
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Lao PDR/Cambodia: Floods - Jul 2018
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
ReliefWeb
This is an archived webpage of a description of floods in Lao PDR and Cambodia in 2018 July.
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Why farmers in Laos are shifting from cabbage to cassava production
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit globally, farmers in Laos are among the most affected. Many farmers could not sell their cabbages due to lack of buyers. The prices for cabbages a...
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Impact of Climate Change and COVID-19 on Farmers in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
2020
Siphaeng is a rice farmer from Duer village, Phaoudom district, Bokeo province, Laos. The farmers in this region are currently facing threats due to climate change. Siphaeng say...
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NSSF information package for employers and workers
Cambodia
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
National Social Security Fund (NSSF)
2019
This information package which enumerates the benefits provided to workers by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the formalities and procedures of registration, contri...
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Lao PDR in the time of COVID-19
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
World Bank Group
2020
Lao PDR Economic Monitor main findings
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Sustainable Development Report 2020: The Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19
Global
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller,...
2020
The Sustainable Development Report 2020 (SDR2020) presents some early thoughts on the Covid-19 crisis and the future of sustainable development.
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Fact sheet: Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC)
Cambodia
Advocacy and promotional materials
Family Health International 360 (FHI360)
2020
Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) is a five-year (2019-2024) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), implemented...
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Worked to debt: Over-indebtedness in Cambodia's garment sector
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union (CATU), Center for...
2020
This joint briefing paper is made under the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union (CATU), Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), and Cambod...
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Risks of Belt and Road Initiative Projects in ASEAN
Asia, China
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Donald Low, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
2020
This paper mainly analyzes the three most salient risks, namely fiscal risk, governance risk and environmental risk host countries of BRI might confront. First, the implementati...
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Using Procurement Data: Indicators and Guidance
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Open Contracting Partnership
More open procurement policies and processes can lead to efficiencies, savings, better quality goods and services, greater citizen participation, and other positive benefits. ...
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Tool Re-Use in Open Contracting: A Primer
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
The Engine Room, World Bank & Open Contracting Partnership
2020
This primer is a starting point for anyone interested in taking advantage of existing tools to publish or use open contracting data. The steps in this primer are designed to ...
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Open Contracting Tools Directory
Global
Archived web content
Open Contracting Partnership
2018
We keep track of software tools that can be used to create, use, visualize or analyze OCDS data. We focus on re-usable tools and open-source code that can be taken as a starting...
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Guide to Collect, Publish & Visualize COVID-19 Procurement Data
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Open Contracting Partnership
2020
This guide describes how to collect, publish and visualize open data about COVID-19 emergency procurement using the Open Contracting Data Standard.
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GIDA-RDA COVID-19 Guidelines for Data Sharing Respecting Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Global
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Stephanie Russo Carroll, Pyrou Chung, Donna Cormack, Maui Hudson,...
2020
The Indigenous Data Guidelines set out the minimum requirements for Indigenous-designed data approaches and standards, inclusive of Indigenous rights to data governance and deci...
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Information for citizen booklet on rights and standards, performance and budget
Cambodia
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
Secretariat of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic...
2014
Information for citizen booklet on rights and standards, performance budget shows citizens' right to improve services at commune level, people's right to access services at the ...
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Red Flag for Integrity: Giving The Green Light to Open Data Solution
Global
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Katherine Wikrent, Development Gateway (DG) & Open Contracting Partnership
2017
One of the four primary use cases for open contracting is promoting integrity. Public contracting and procurement is government’s single greatest corruption risk, a fact highlig...
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Myanmar Business Environment Index: COVID-19 Impact on Businesses
Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The Asia Foundation
2020
Apart from direct health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the crisis and measures to combat it have hit the economy hard. In Myanmar, as part of the Myanmar Business Environment...