Background Myanmar's city of Yangon is the largest financial and commercial centre. It accounts for about 50% of the country's industrial capacity, and is the seat of education, art, culture, healthcare, tourism, research and development. Population growth and rapid urbanisation ...
River Water Level Dashboard
Source: Myanmar Information Management Unit - The dashboard is created by Myanmar Geoinformatics Society, shows updates on rising water levels in Myanmar's main river systems. Link to dashboard: https://themimu.info/river-water-alerts
ရေအတွက် အနာဂတ်လမ်းကြောင်း
UC Berkeley မှ ပါမောက္ခတစ်ဦးလည်းဖြစ်၊ ရေ ၄.၀ (water 4.0) ကို ရေးသားသူလည်းဖြစ်တဲ့ ပါမောက္ခ David Sedlak သည် ရေဘက်ဆိုင်ရာ စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု အတွက် လာမယ့် အနာဂတ်ရေလမ်းကြောင်းအပေါ်မှာ သူ့ရဲ့ အမြင်ကို ဝေမျှခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ပထမဦးဆုံးကတော့ လူသားတွေဟာ ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များကို ရယူခြင်း၊ သန့်စင်ခြင်း နှင့် ပေးဝေခြင်းများအတွက...
Myanmar Flood Monitoring Dashboard
Source: Myanmar Information Management Unit - The UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) dashboard uses Sentinel-1 radar satellite data to provide projections of likely flood-affected areas using Artificial Intelligence model. Users can select the time period of interest to view Inundated areas...
Register for free - 4th ASEAN-EU Cooperation and Scholarships Day 2021
The ASEAN and the EU will be organizing the "4th ASEAN-EU Cooperation and Scholarships Day 2021." In this virtual event, ASEAN, the EU, their respective Member States, education institutions/agencies will showcase both EU-ASEAN development cooperation projects and higher education opportunities...
Yangon Raincraft: Engaging Local Communities for Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods
The city of Yangon is one of the most vulnerable cities worldwide to climate change, suffering from widespread flooding during the monsoon while experiencing severe water shortages in the dry season. Starting in 2019, through a joint initiative of local and international par...
No help from junta as floods sweep southeastern Myanmar
Local aid groups and volunteers say they have led rescue efforts in Mon and Kayin states 28 July 2021 - Source: Myanmar Now - Junta-controlled authorities have offered no help as floods have inundated homes in southeastern Myanmar, leaving at least hundreds without shelter in the Mon State ca...
Call for applications for the 2022 Nippon Foundation Fellowship - The United Nations
The call for applications for the 2022 Fellowship Programme is open until 24 September 2021 Objectives The United Nations – Nippon Foundation Fellowship provides Government officials and other mid-level professionals from developing States with advanced training on ocean affairs and the ...
Register for Free - The 4th Global World Operators' Partnerships (WOPs) Congress
Event - 18-29 October 2021 — Online Learning from each other, sharing experiences, and inspiring action is a critical way for water and sanitation operators to improve their services and enrich the lives of the people they serve. A spirit of collaboration and solidarity is at the heart of the Global...
The 5Rs in Myanmar
Towards a future federal democratic system where working people can flourish 2 July 2021 - Source: Transnational institute - This primer is about 'the 5Rs' and land and natural resource politics. The 5Rs is a set of five principles: Recognition, Restitution, Redistribution, Regeneration, and R...
The Sphere Handbook (Eng/Bur) - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
The principal users of The Sphere Handbook are practitioners involved in planning, managing or implementing a humanitarian response. This includes staff and volunteers of local, national and international humanitarian organisations responding to a crisis, as well as affected people themselves. The H...
Regional Sanitation Expo - Explore, Learn and Develop Innovative Solutions
Despite progress in access to sanitation across the East Asia and Pacific region in recent years, over 360 million people still do not have access to basic sanitation services. Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for safe sanitation for all by 2030. With this background, UNICEF is organizing a Regi...
Call for Applications - Indigenous Youth Empowerment Grant Program
UNDP and the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have partnered to establish small grants program that will enable young indigenous people to access small financial grants to facilitate their work. Depending on the scale of their projects, the grant recipients will receive fund from 2500 to 3500 USD...
China’s Salween plans in limbo in post-coup Myanmar
8 June 2021 - Source: The Third Pole - The Third Pole explores how the military coup will affect Chinese-backed dams along Southeast Asia's last free-flowing river Plans for seven Chinese-built dams along the Salween River have been a source of friction for Myanmar and China for some time. Prior to ...
WWF Adapt - သဘာ၀ပတ်၀န်းကျင်နှင့် ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုဆိုင်ရာ အွန်လိုင်းလေ့လာနိုင်သော သင်ရိုးတစ်ခုအကြောင်းမိတ်ဆက်
အခုတစ်ခါတော့ စာသံပေသံနဲ့ သင်တဲ့ သင်ရိုးတွေအပြင် ကာတွန်းပုံတွေ၊ လိုရင်းတိုရှင်းရေးပြီး လုပ်ထားတဲ့ သင်ရိုးတွေနဲ့ မိတ်ဆက်ချင်ပါတယ်။ WWF ကနေ သဘာ၀ပတ်၀န်းကျင်နဲ့ ရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲမှုကို လိုက်လျောညီထွေပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲနေထိုင်ခြင်းတို့ကို ပေါ့ပေါ့ပါးပါး လေ့လာသင်ယူနိုင်မယ့် သင်ရိုးတွေဖြစ်တယ်။ ဒီ WWF Adapt Webs...