Sustainable Development Goals
Open Development Mekong publishes new story on Infrastructure Financiers
In the LMCs, the main financiers, or entities that deal with large-scale investment, include both bilateral (country-to-country) investment, like from China, as well as multilateral (investors from more than one source) investment, such as through the Asian Development Bank (ADB). More detail ...
Open Development Mekong publishes a new topic page on Gender Equality
SDG 5 – “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” recognizes gender equality as an intrinsic human right. Furthermore, the overarching goal of the 2030 Agenda to “leave no one behind” will be unachievable without gender equality and women’s empowerment. () Having women’s representation in government is ...
Open Development Vietnam publishes Climate Change topic page
Vietnam ranks the fifth in climate risk in the Global Climate Risk Index for 2018 and eighth in the Long-Term Climate Risk Index (CRI). Having 3,260 km of coast line, rising sea levels definitely create a big impact on Vietnam. According to the Inter-Governmental Panel on CC ...
New dataset on Policy Briefings (2013-2018) published on Open Development Mekong
This policy booklet provides policy recommendations on key sustainable development issues in the Mekong Region that were explored by the collaborative research projects of SUMERNET in phase 3 (2014-2017). The collaborative research projects addressed various sustainable development issues under three themes: Climate compatible development; Ecosystem ...
Open Development Thailand publishes a topic page on SDG 6 - Clean water and sanitation
Open Development Thailand has just published a topic page on SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation. As of 2017, Thailand has already taken steps towards achieving a number of SDG 6’s indicators. 98% of the population of Thailand has access to “improved drinking water” and 93% has ...
Open Development Thailand publishes a new page on SDG 14 - Life below water
Open Development Thailand has just published a new page on SDG 14 – Life below water Thailand has many reasons to invest in their oceans and marine environments, having more than 3,148km of coastline which runs across 23 provinces. These marine environments are ecologically diverse and are ...
New topic page on SDG 1 - No poverty published on Open Development Mekong
Poverty is exacerbated by armed conflicts and environmental disasters. This is particularly the case for Myanmar and Thailand, although all of the Lower Mekong Countries are expected to be disproportionately impacted by climate change. Nationally-appropriate policies that are pro-poor and take into account vulnerable groups including ...
Open Development Mekong publishes a new topic page on SDG 2 Zero hunger
Despite earlier successes in reducing hunger for the MDGs, the ASEAN region continues to struggle to eliminate hunger and improve nutrition. In the LMCs, only Vietnam and Thailand attained the MDG target for reducing the number of underweight children, and malnutrition still affects one in three ...
New topic page on SDG 4 Quality education published on Open Development Mekong
In the Lower Mekong Countries, it is only in Vietnam that almost all children finish primary school. For the other countries, the key factors limiting access to primary education are generally economic (such as no money to support education or children being required to help on farms ...
Open Development Mekong publishes a new page on SDG9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
ASEAN is aware that infrastructure development requires regional cooperation as well as national implementation. The subregion has been working to support such cooperation. The first version of ASEAN’s Master Plan on Connectivity suffered from a lack of funding, so the current plan emphasizes the need ...
