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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, ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new page on SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic page on SDG 6, you ...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new page on sustainable development goals
Cambodia’s national means of implementing Cambodian sustainable development goals (SDGs), while smaller in scale, have realized consistent growth in recent times. Cambodia has been increasingly funding its own development, through both tax and non-tax government revenue. For example, government revenue totalled $US 3.5 billion in ...
NEW book released: Between the Plough and the Pick Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world
Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social‑political-historical contexts play in shaping ...
