Announcements

The Land Potential-Knowledge System (LandPKS; landpotential.org), a joint USAID-USDA program, was created to help put valuable information about the land, including climate, soils, and vegetation, in the hands of land managers across the world.Keep reading ...

1. The Third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation(LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, China on 15 December 2017. H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...

APN’s Annual Proposal Development Training Workshop (PDTW) will be held on 28 February-2 March, 2018 in Viet Nam.The training workshop is designed to enhance the capacity of young scientists and practitioners in Southeast Asia to develop competitive research proposals for funding. Another main focus of ...

The ninth World Urban Forum (WUF 9), convened by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will bring together thousands of stakeholders to share practices and knowledge on how cities are built, planned and managed. For further information, please visit here ...

Asian Institute of Technology in Vietnam and Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies announce that the online application for the Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) for 2018-2019 is now open (http://dpp.graduateinstitute.ch/home.html).  Scholarships are available for candidates coming from the Mekong Region (Vietnam, ...

ADB’s Trade Finance Program (TFP) will have its first Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Financial Sector and Trade Finance Conference on 18-19 January 2018 at Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.Delegates from ADB member countries of Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, ...

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Working Group on Health Cooperation will convene its first meeting in Luang Prabang, Lao on December 13-14.For more information, please visit here ...

The Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and jointly managed by Fulbright University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Vietnam Program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the ...

Youth Summit will be held on the 4-5 December 2017 in Washington DC and livestreamed globally. This year’s Youth Summit will seek to provide youth with a forum to voice their concerns, share their ideas and learn from one another while discussing the challenges and opportunities created by ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will hold an international Forum on Economic Development and Public Policy in Bali, Indonesia on December 7-8, 2017.The invitation-only forum is themed “Riding the Waves of Technological Change: The Way Forward to Drive Productivity and Alleviate Inequality”Participants will be senior ...