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...
India, Myanmar Agree Strategic Port Operation in Rakhine Next Year
06 Oct 2020 - Source: The Irrawaddy YANGON—India and Myanmar agreed this week to move forward on a number of initiatives that are central to New Delhi's efforts to counter China's influence in Myanmar, during a visit by a high-level Indian delegation. In particular, the two sides agreed the Indian-b...
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...
Chindwin River Basin Scenario
If I were a storyteller to the future generation about Chindwin River Basin, I would have started to explain about the Chindwin River, wouldn't I? I got the story after interviewing with Than Htway Lwin from Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI). She gave me documents and reports related to biodiv...
Working towards a Resilient Yangon, uncovering the water needs and challenges in Thaketa township
Since October 2018 a coalition of Dutch water organisations is working together in the 'Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon' (UWLY) program to support the Yangon Regional Government in Urban Water and Water Logistics Challenges. The UWLY program, to run for three years as part of the Dutch Go...
The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar
A symposium and technical workshop - The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar was held on 15th August 2018 at Inya Lake hotel by WWF Myanmar. U Cho Cho, chairman of NWRC Advisory Group and Professor Dr. Khin Than Yu, pro-rector of Yangon Technological University gave an opening and w...
Biodiversity Assessment and Media Training Workshop in Monywa
From August 15-17, a biodiversity assessment and media training workshop was held in Monywa. The training program was focused on communicating on development, biodiversity and livelihoods in the Chindwin River Basin. Endorsed by Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and My...
First phase of Integrated Water Resources Management in Bago sub-basin area
The concept of Integrated Water Resources Management has been defined by the Global Water Partnership in 2011. In term, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize econom...
Bago River Awareness Raising started gathering tons of audiences
Public awareness and inclusiveness of local community are the characteristics of improvement signatures in building sustainable development. Besides, it is uneasy to make local people attractive to participate in one campaign. I reached out one of the public awareness campai...
Meeting with Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association about groundwater extraction
U Ye Htut, Chairman of Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association, speaks about the story of the association, the objectives and the current activities in Myanmar. He provided me of information and profile of the association and tried to elaborate more about its activities in Myanmar. Myanmar Purif...
Myanmar Waste Scoping Mission Report
This document was created by an Expert Team carried out a scoping mission in the period 13-24 March 2017. The focus was on Yangon, Meiktila and Mandalay. The mission concluded with a seminar on waste management in Myanmar and opportunities for cooperation, with a participation of alm...
သန့်ရှင်းသောသောက်သုံးရေနှင့် မိလ္လာစနစ် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်သန့်ရှင်းရေးတို့မှတဆင့် ဘိုကလေးမြို့နယ်ရှိဒေသခံများ၏ လူနေမှုဘဝများတိုးတက်ပြောင်းလဲလာ
အခြေခံပညာဉီးစီးဌာန၊ ကျေးလက်ဒေသ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ဉီးစီးဌာန နှင့် လီယန်အိဒ် (Lien AID) တို့မှ ပြည်သူလူထုစီမံခန့်ခွဲသော ရေရရှိရေးအစီအစဉ်မှတစ်ဆင့် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခဲ့သော ရေနှင့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်သန့်ရှင်းရေးဝန်ဆောင်မှုများအားကျေးရွာ ၅ ရွာမှ ဒေသခံ ရပ်မိရပ်ဖများနှင့် ကျောင်း ၂ ကျောင်းမှ ကျောင်းအုပ်များထံ လွှဲပ...
Improving community well-being in Bogale Township with clean water and sanitation
Department of Basic Education, Department of Rural Development, and Lien AID handover water and sanitation services established through the Community Water Management programme to villager leaders and school administration from 5 villages and 2 schools 3,833 people have convenient and affordable acc...
Shan State Lawmakers to Discuss Draft Inle Lake Conservation Law
28 May 19 - Source: The Irrawaddy - YANGON—The Shan State Parliament will soon discuss a draft law that will allow the participation of local residents in the conservation of Inle Lake, one of the most prominent landmarks in Shan State. The draft law proposes the formation of a lake governing b...
World Water Day 2019 commemorated in Nay Pyi Taw
7 March 19 - Source: Global New Light Of Myanmar - Nay Pyi Taw commemorated World Water Day 2019 at its Myanmar International Convention Centre II yesterday where Vice President U Henry Van Thio, Chairperson of National Water Resources Committee (NWRC), delivered a speech. History of National Water ...