Open Development Mekong - Organizations OD Mekong Datahub

Water and Gender

Global Archived web content UN-WATER Gender, Water policy and administration

This is an archived webpage on the connection between gender and water.

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MRC: Governance and organisational structure

Mekong Archived web content Mekong River Commission Irrigation and water management

This is an archived webpage showing the governance and organisational structure of the Mekong River Commission.

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Core River Basin Management Functions

Mekong Archived web content Mekong River Commission Irrigation and water management

This archived webpage describes the core river basin management functions of the Mekong River Commission.

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New study shows significant impact of Chinese dams on Mekong

Mekong Archived web content Timo Räsänen 2017 Irrigation and water management, Rivers and lakes

This is an archived webpage showing an article on the downstream impacts of dams on the Mekong River mainstream.

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China and the Geopolitics of the Mekong River Basin

Mekong Archived web content Richard Cronin Irrigation and water management, Rivers and lakes

This is an archived webpage of an article on the geopolitics of the Mekong River.

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A brief history of Lancang-Mekong cooperation

Mekong Archived web content Lancang Mekong Cooperation Irrigation and water management, Rivers and lakes

This is an archived webpage showing the history of Lancang Mekong Cooperation.

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MRC: Basin Planning

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.

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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 Gender, Hydropower dams, Infrastructure, Livelihood rights

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 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...

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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 Irrigation and water management, Rivers and lakes

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 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...

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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 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 ...

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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 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...

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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 Access to information

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 Labor rights and labor unions NGOs

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 Development and assistance for land tenure and land titling, Ethnic minorities and indigenous people policy and rights

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 Food security

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 Ethnic minorities and indigenous people

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 Agricultural production, Fisheries production, Hydropower dams

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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