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- The Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security Project is a 2-year pilot project (January 2020-December 2021) aiming to design, implement and evaluate a variety of climate adaptation interventions in Thaketa, one of the most flood-prone and water-scarce townships of Yangon.
In the pilot project, we are establishing an innovative...The Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security Project is a 2-year pilot project (January 2020-December 2021) aiming to design, implement and evaluate a variety of climate adaptation interventions in Thaketa, one of the most flood-prone and water-scarce townships of Yangon.More
In the pilot project, we are establishing an innovative network-driven stakeholder participation process for designing and implementing different types of climate adaptation interventions, based on the social innovation approach from one of the most successful, innovative climate adaptation programs in the Netherlands: Amsterdam Rainproof.
The pilot project is undertaken at the request of the Yangon Region Government and Yangon City Development Committee and jointly funded by the consortium partners, the Yangon Region Government and the Dutch Government (Partners poor Water program).
The consortium partners working together in the Thaketa project are: The Water Agency (lead), Doh Eain, Infram, Witteveen+Bos, Resilience, World Waternet, U.Minds and Water Bridge Myanmar.Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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- As part of the Thaketa Climate Adaptation Pilot Project, mid-point review surveying all over the Thaketa ward-5 community was carried out to asset the level of involvement as of project Phase I (November 2020).
In this survey, there were three focused groups Direct, General and Exposed groups.
1. Direct group includes those who have had...As part of the Thaketa Climate Adaptation Pilot Project, mid-point review surveying all over the Thaketa ward-5 community was carried out to asset the level of involvement as of project Phase I (November 2020).More
In this survey, there were three focused groups Direct, General and Exposed groups.
1. Direct group includes those who have had frequent contact with the project team including workshops, implementation support, committee members etc.
2. General group includes those who were involved in our Household and Business Survey at the beginning of the project and some of the previous programs for example, IDoNation donation survey/program as a support to the vulnerable community during the Covid-19 pandemic.
3. Exposed group includes all other residents of Ward 5.
On 6th-9th January 2021, the survey was performed through on-site survey as well as phone calls, led by the local staff from The Water Agency and Doh Eain together with the help of the volunteers.
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- Myanmar Water Portal posted a new blog post in Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security ProjectMoreWe finally installed rulers to monitor the water level of three places - the reservoir where the local community depend on it for domestic and drinking purposes and the drainages at Thumana and near the post office in Thaketa, Ward 5. Our construction team went on the ground and started our implementation in the amidst of COVID 19 pandemic. Led by ...Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
- We finally installed rulers to monitor the water level of three places - the reservoir where the local community depend on it for domestic and drinking purposes and the drainages at Thumana and near the post office in Thaketa, Ward 5. Our construction team went on the ground and started our implementation in the amidst of COVID 19 pandemic. Led...We finally installed rulers to monitor the water level of three places - the reservoir where the local community depend on it for domestic and drinking purposes and the drainages at Thumana and near the post office in Thaketa, Ward 5. Our construction team went on the ground and started our implementation in the amidst of COVID 19 pandemic. Led by Swan and Kyaw Nyunt, we made sure to see the measurement from CCTV that we have installed in August for the monitoring process.MorePost is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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- Thandar reacted to this post about 3 years ago MoreOn November 24, 2020, update call of Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security Pilot Project was done with local government, Yangon City Development Committee by organizing the virtual online meeting amid COVID pandemic. The call was to share a project update about its progress of implementation and monitoring and discuss how to collaborate mov...Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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Minecraft team (Swan from Doh Eain, Thandar and Kyaw Nyunt Linn from The Water Agency) is processing to build the model virtually. We will take pictures and videos for our model. we are keen to digitally rebuild our project in Minecraft - establishing new opportunities to virtually all forms of our project! Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream. - Thandar reacted to this post about 3 years agoDespite the fact that the lockdown situation is quite stringent in Yangon, our local teams managed to complete the implementation of our planned interventions for the “Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project” in Yangon.
Moreover, we are keen to digitally rebuild our project in Minecraft - establishing new opportunities to virtually all forms of our...Despite the fact that the lockdown situation is quite stringent in Yangon, our local teams managed to complete the implementation of our planned interventions for the “Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project” in Yangon.More
Moreover, we are keen to digitally rebuild our project in Minecraft - establishing new opportunities to virtually all forms of our project!
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- MoreOne of the fundamental essences of leaderships is self-motivation, the ability to motivate yourself and drive people to keep going even in the face of setbacks, to create opportunities and to demonstrate a commitment to what they want to achieve.Aside from the definition, this is a message that I want to share by showing an example from the real wo...Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
- Kyaw Nyunt Linn reacted to this post about 4 years agoWe had a meeting to discuss our design proposal for the YCDC drainage improvements on Aug 6, and the proposal has finally been submitted last week! We delivered both english and burmese versions of the report. Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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- 22 & 24 July 2020 - A senior civil engineer from Beca taught how to do the levelling measurement to verify the Slope of the drains existing in ward _5, Thaketa and to corelate the results with LIDAR data. We started actual survey measurements in this week by dividing 3 zones for three days. In our surveying, we specially focus on measuring the...22 & 24 July 2020 - A senior civil engineer from Beca taught how to do the levelling measurement to verify the Slope of the drains existing in ward _5, Thaketa and to corelate the results with LIDAR data. We started actual survey measurements in this week by dividing 3 zones for three days. In our surveying, we specially focus on measuring the bed level and curvet level of the drains as well as the reference road level. This survey measurement is aimed to help in the modelling of the drains as the phase 2 of Thaketa Climate Resilience Project.More
The team consists of So Pyay, a community engagement intern from Doh Eain, Eaindra Htun, a volunteer who is doing her bachelor thesis on Thaketa and was an intern with Water Bridge, two Thaketa Drainage Members andv Thandar, project assistant of The Water agency who facilitates the team on site.Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream. - 16 July - we, Swan Yee Tun Lwin, Shin Thant Htet and So Pyay from Doh Eain and Thandar from The Water Agency altogether took water sample (groundwater, rainwater) which are using now in some households and one Tea Shop to test their water quality especially focus on Salinity test and Fecal Chloroform test. Let's see how it goes! Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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- Myanmar Water Portal posted a new blog post in Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security ProjectMore13 July 2020 – We were very happy to see that the community is already taking its own initiatives to reduce the impact of flooding. Over the past months, the Ward Officer of Ward 5 undertook to upgrade and restore a large part of the drainage network in his neighborhood, removing sediment, cleaning, reinforcing channels and placing borders to preve...Post is under moderationStream item published successfully. Item will now be visible on your stream.
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