Site updates
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 Vietnam publishes a new topic page on Sustainable Development Goals
Open Development Vietnam has just published a topic page on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The VSDG has been approved by the Government of Vietnam in 2016 and has 17 goals but only 115 targets. There are many similarities and differences between SDG’s global goals and national goals. Please access the Vietnam SDG ...
Open Development Mekong publishes a new page on Forest cover
In 2015, the FAO’s Global Forest Resource Assessment estimated that the Greater Mekong Subregion had 88.4 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 46% of the region’s land area and shared by 237 million people. The WWF reports that between 1973 and 2009 region lost approximately one-third ...
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 ...
Open Development Mekong publishes a new page on SDG 14 - Life Below Water
As with the other SDGs, countries are encouraged to use the most relevant indicators for their individual national contexts. For example, not all the LMCs have coastline: Lao PDR is landlocked. The Laos government has shifted the focus away from marine resources to freshwater ecosystems ...
Open Development Vietnam publishes 3 new sub-pages on land classification, communal land and state public land
Open Development Vietnam has published 3 new sub-pages in Vietnamese and English, focus on land classification, communal land and state public land. All is under land topic page. Please visit the new pages for more detail. ...
Open Development Myanmar publishes a new page on Sustainable Development Goals
The new page in both Burmese and English languages covers Sustainable Development Goal topic together with detail on the transition from MDGs to SDGs in Myanmar, localization of the SDGs, global means of implementation, national means of implementation, and monitoring the SDGs in Myanmar. Please visit ODMm’s Sustainable Development ...
Open Development Laos uploads a new report, “Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR”
It is a report released by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI), which reflects potential impacts of hydro-power project in Xe Kong, a tributary of Mekong, to its neighboring ecosystem. The report comes with recommendations as a guide for the Government of Laos to mitigate the impacts, ...
