Today, as the planet Earth has faced the consequences of Global Warming, people living in both urbans and rural have experienced the effects of Climate change like flooding and drought. Same as in Yangon, the major city of Myanmar, also no stranger to the impacts of unconditional extreme weathe...
Virtual workshop: What will you do with water data?
Source: UN Water - The workshop 'What will you do with water data?' is hosted virtually on 23 February at 8 – 9 am ET. The World Bank works closely with partners to achieve its vision of "A Water-Secure World for All" centered on three interrelated pillars: sustain water resources, deliver...
A milestone of the ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP)
The very first ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP) is a leadership development program run by Common Purpose in partnership with ASEAN Foundation, SAP, and GIZ. The Challenge that the participants explored, ideate, and initiate projects on is: "How might we increase ...
Why water is the next net-zero environmental target
17 November 2021 - Source: cnbc.com KEY POINTS Net-zero pledges have become more common among companies and governments as concerns over climate change and the planet's environment continue to grow.While much of that has focused around curbing greenhouse gas emissions, there is a wave of ...
စိမ်းလန်းသော (မြေ)နေရာများနှင့် အပြာရောင် (ရေ)နေရာများ၏ လူမှုရေးနှင့်စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာအရေးပါမှု
ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရပ်ကွက်များတွင် ပျှမ်းမျှအားဖြင့် လူတို့သည် ပိုကျန်းမာလေ့ရှိပြီး ကလေးများသည် အပြင်ထွက်် ကစားလေ့ရှိသည်။ မကြာသေးမီ နှစ်များအတွင်း မြို့နှင့် မြို့ကြီးများတွင် စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေခြင်း၏ အကျိုးကျေးဇူးများ နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များ ပိုမိုရရှိလာသည်။ လူအများစုသည် ပိုမို စိမ်းလန...
ရှေ့သို့ ခရီးရောက်တိုးတက်သော မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများဖြစ်ရေး နည်းဥပဒေသများ
တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီထားတဲ့ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ရည်မှန်းချက် (Sustainable Development Goals) ကို အခုလက်ရှိအချိန်ကနေ ၂၀၃၀ ခုနှစ် အတွင်း ကျွန်တော်တို့ စွမ်းဆောင်အောင်မြင်နိုင်ဖို့ဆိုရင် လူပေါင်း သန်းတစ်ဝက်နီးပါးကို အန္တရာယ်ကင်း စိတ်ချရတဲ့ သောက်ရေရရှိအောင်၊ လူပေါင်းတစ်သန်းကိ...
Flood Mitigation in Yangon using Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) - Dr. Yee Mon Thu
The title, "Flood Mitigation in Yangon Using Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS)" was introduced and presented by Dr.Yee Mon Thu, Director and water resources specialist at Water Bridge Myanmar Co., Ltd. She focused on the four elements which accounted in the designing of sustainable urban dra...
Myanmar implements sustainable aquaculture programme
08 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar is launching a national aquaculture plan to support the country's fisheries industry, with the aim of linking it up with long term buyers from European markets. The government will implement the Myanmar Sustainable Aquaculture Programme (MYSAP) under ...
Inle lake conservation to be implemented in 4 zones
08 December 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Four project zones have been categorised in the Inle Lake to streamline efforts to ensure the environmental sustainability and the development of the local economy of the communities surrounding the lake. Zone 1 includes Nyaungshwe township, Zone 2 includes K...
Myanmar’s development assistance policy (DAP) seeks support for the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan
29 November 2020 - Source: Mizzima Myanmar's democratic transition process and opening up of the economy coincided with the increased presence of development partners. Apart from private sector-led development, reliance on external assistance in the form of grants, concessional loans from bilateral ...
Myanmar launches aid policy to align with MSDP
18th November 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times Myanmar's new development assistance policy has been announced by the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations. The Myanmar Development Assistance Policy 2020 aims to develop a specific set of policies to make effective use of development assis...
Expressions of Interest to preserve Inya Lake
18th November 2020 - Source: Myanmar Times The Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) has invited expressions of interest (EOI) to help preserve Yangon's famous Inya Lake. "Local and foreign companies, as well as joint ventures, who would like to assist us in preserving Inya Lake can submit their ...
ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင် ဆက်စပ်မှု (Water-Energy Nexus) များမှ အားပြိုင်မှုများ
"ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင် ဆက်စပ်မှုများမှ အားပြိုင်မှုများသည် ရေ နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဆိုင်ရာ အကောင်းဆုံး စည်းမျဉ်းချမှတ်မှုများကို လိုအပ်လာပေသည်" ကမ္ဘာ့ကုလသမဂ္ဂ၏ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့ခိုင်မြဲသော ဖွဲ့ဖြိုးရေးရည်မှန်းချက်များထဲမှ အမှတ်စဉ် (၆) ဖြစ်သည့် "သန့်ရှင်းသောရေ နှင့် မိလ္လာစနစ်ရရှိရေး" သည် အမှတ်စဉ် (၇) ဖြစ်သော "တတ်နိ...
Myanmar Development Assistance Policy (DAP)
This DAP also presents an overarching policy framework which shall guide the delivery of development assistance, together with clear procedures that streamline the identification, design, negotiation, approval, implementation and evaluation of initiatives funded in part or whole by development assis...
Yangon Declaration: The Pathway Forward
The 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) was convened in Yangon on 11-12 December 2017, with the aim of promoting cooperation and partnership, as well as sharing knowledge and experiences to enhance water security in the region towards concrete actions and solutions for sustainable development. Al...