Source: World Bank - JAKARTA, 28 May 2021 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launched the ASEAN Regional Action Plan for Combating Marine Debris in the ASEAN Member States (2021 – 2025), which provides a scalable, solution-focused joint strategy to address marine plastic debris across the region.Adopted ahead of World Environment ...

Written by Thidar Maung Maung | Myanmar Water Portal With the collaboration of Myanmar Water Partnership (MMWP), Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Development (IWUMD), Global Water Partnership and The Water Agency, the virtual webinar was successfully organized to promote and strengthen the knowledge and safety awareness of flood man...

This chapter outlines the status of hydropower development in Myanmar. In absence of a hydropower policy or plan in Myanmar, the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) will assess the existing hydropower plants and planned projects in the major river basins and sub-basins. The analysis firstly covers how hydropower has contributed to meeting powe...

Abstract Urbanization in Myanmar is still in an early phase with slightly less than one-third of the population living in cities. This presents an enormous opportunity for the country. Cities are engines of growth and prosperity, which facilitate industries to grow jobs, services and innovations. Cities are also fundamental to lifting people o...

Abstract Urbanization in Myanmar is still in an early phase with slightly less than one-third of the population living in cities. This presents an enormous opportunity for the country. Cities are engines of growth and prosperity, which facilitate industries to grow jobs, services and innovations. Cities are also fundamental to lifting people o...

The consultation meeting in Taunggyi on September 12 was attended by representatives from relevant government agencies including forest, agriculture, mining, irrigation, water resources utilization, department of natural disaster, department of hydropower implementation and rural development, among others. The civil society organizations including ...

The Myanmar Climate Change Policy and the related Myanmar Climate Change Strategy and Master Plan (2018-2030) as a guiding policy and strategic framework are hereby adopted precisely to ensure that we take concrete, coordinated and sustained action over the long-term to transform Myanmar into a low-carbon and resilient country, which is able to dev...

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)​ is currently looking for 4 individuals to join the Myanmar country office. Please read further for more details on the available job postings.Note: This position is open to both Internationals and Myanmar Nationals. ​Position: Officer, Green Investment Service (GIS)Deadli...

12 April 19 - Source: Myanmar Times - The Myanmar Environmental Assessment Association (MEAA) enter into an agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to improve environmental and social (E&S) risk assessment and management skills in the private sector. The MEAA, which has over 100 members - provides technical and advisory ser...

​Derived from the Quarterly Newsletter of Global Water Partnership (GWP)The dialogue on sharing knowledge from various research works on harvest moisture from thin air to collect water was held at Irrigation and Water Utilization Management Department on 5th December 2018 in Yangon, Myanmar. The dialogue is part of the MyanmarWater Partnership ac-t...

​This cartoon book is published by Myanmar Water Partnership (MmWP) supported by Global Water Partnership. It explains the importance of water resources in the world, how they exist, their different types of usages, and the water challenges in these days. In the end, why we need to preserve the water resources is shown clearly to spread out the wor...

​အက်ဥ္းခ်ဴပ္အေရးပါးဆံုးေသာ ေရခ်ိဳသယံဇာတမ်ား မညစ္ညမ္းေစရန္နွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကို တန္ဖိုးထားတတ္ေစရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္သည့္အခ်က္မ်ားကို ဖတ္ရွဴရမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ လူသားဘ၀ ရွင္သန္ရပ္တည္နုိင္ေရး၊ ဖြံျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးတို႕အတြက္ တစ္နုိင္တစ္ပိုင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္နုိင္သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားျဖစ္ပါသျဖင့္ ကိုယ္စီကိုယ္ငွာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကပါလွ်င္ ေရရွားပါးမႈျပႆနာမ်ားကို ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္နုိင္မည္ျဖစ္...