This guide presents six elements that can be helpful when establishing or reforming a policy framework for managing water for the environment in any jurisdiction, based on learnings from the experience of Australia and other countries: Confirm a vision for water management and the value of wat...
National Environmental Policy of Myanmar
Myanmar is blessed with diverse ecosystems, rich biodiversity and bountiful natural resources. The health of these ecosystems is essential for the country's development and the people's wellbeing, given that all economic and social sectors depend on its natural capital. Yet many of our country's nat...
Access to Clean and Safe Water in Yangon: A Case of Municipal Water Provision in Insein Township
The provision of safe and reliable water supply is important to all urban dwellers. Actually, urban water supply systems aim to be a safe and reliable water supply for all urban residents. But the municipal water supply with improved public hygiene is still inadequate even in the major cities of Yan...
BasinGuide: A guide to river basin planning
The Australian Water Partnership has published BasinGuide: A Guide to River Basin Planning to help practitioners address the challenge of water security and unsustainable river management, and further the ambitions of many Indo-Pacific countries to improve their river basin management and cooperatio...
Geo-informatics Applications in Disaster Management (Facilitator's Guide)
This module carries pre-training entry level assessment as well as hands on exercise manual on Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Geographic Positioning System (GPS) and some applications of these technologies on Disaster Risk Management (DRM) especially for hazard mapping, monitoring a...
Climate change vulnerability assessment of Labutta Township Ayeyawady Region, Myanmar, 2016-2050: Scenarios for resilience building [EN/MY]
In 2016 the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, comprised of UN-Habitat, UNEnvironment and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, in collaboration with WWF and Columbia University conducted a detailed climate change vulnerability assessment of Labutta Township. Labutta is loc...
ကရင်ပြည်နယ်မှ ရေမည်းများ၊ အဆိပ်သင့်ဝန်းကျင်မှ ပြည်သူ့ဘဝများ
ဤအစီအရင်ခံစာသည် ဘားအံမြို့နယ် မြိုင်ကလေးဒေသရှိ တန် ၄,၀၀၀ ဘိလပ်မြေစက်ရုံတွင် ကျောက်မီးသွေးလောင်စာ စတင်အသုံးပြုပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း ဒေသခံများအသက်ရှင်ရေးအတွက် နေ့စဥ်မှီခိုနေရသော ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များ အရည်အသွေးပြောင်းလဲခြင်း၊ ဒေသခံများ၏ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာခံစားနေရခြင်းနှင့် လူမှုစီးပွားရေးကျဆင်းခြင်းတို့ကို ၂၀၁၉ခုန...
Introduction to QGIS and Kobotoolbox for Mapping Flood Based Farming Systems
About this Manual This User Manual was developed based on an introductory training on the application of Geospatial Information Systems conducted by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for the Department of Agriculture staff stationed in the Ayeyarwady Delta. The training and this Ma...
Water Pollution Assessment of Ti Gyit 2018
Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA) has been provided with a Laboratory Analysis Report by Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland (ALARM) and an Analysis Report by the Analysis Department of the Government of the Republic of Myanmar (GRM) of water and soil samples collected in and around the Village...
The Handbook for Management and Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems in River and Laked Basins
The handbook provides an insight into the key issues linked to managing and restoring aquatic ecosystems. The information draws from real-life experiences, practical examples and expertise acquired in national and transboundary basins throughout the world involving people from public authorities and...
The Protection of Wildlife and Protected areas Law – 1994
The Protection of Wildlife and Protected areas Law was enacted on 8th June, 1994 by the State Law and Order Restoration Council with the aims to implement the government policy for wildlife protection and natural areas conservation, to carry out the protection and conservation of wildlife, ecosystem...
FOREST POLICY – 1995
The formulation of forestry policies has evolved for the purpose of developing sustainability of the environment as Myanmar forestry sector is essential in the enhancement of national socio-economic development, environmental sustainability and balance of nature. The six imperatives were established...
FOREST LAW - 1992
The forest act 1902 was replaced with the new law in 1992 which shall be implemented in accordance with the declared 8 basic principles and the law was composed of 13 chapters and 58 sections. This forestry law of 1992 focused on the reservation, protection and management of forest l...
Water and Sanitation: How to make public investment work (A Handbook for Finance Ministers)
ABOUT THE HANDBOOK This Handbook is a call to action for ministers of finance, with inspirational case studies and forward-looking sector perspectives. It is part of an initiative by the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership to provide succinct insights and curated knowledge to minis...
MAPPING MYANMAR’S FREE-FLOWING RIVERS _ ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE IMPACTS OF DAM-INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ON RIVER CONNECTIVITY
Myanmar has two of the globally most intact tropical river systems - the Salween and the Irrawaddy - which are also in one of the most biodiversity-rich regions of the world. The value of these free-flowing rivers is of fundamental importance to the regional biodiversity, the economy of the country,...