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The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar
A symposium and technical workshop – The Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in Myanmar was held on 15th August 2018 at Inya Lake hotel by WWF Myanmar. U Cho Cho, chairman of NWRC Advisory Group and Professor Dr. Khin Than Yu, pro-rector of Yangon Technological University gave an opening…
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Why inclusive practices are important in water climate adaptation
Social inclusion is utterly important in water climate adaptation. As technical approaches are still dominant in development projects, the locals live in the vicinity are often limited to include their knowledge and experience in tackling climate issues. True value of technical knowledge and expertise can only be seen when connected…
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Biodiversity Assessment and Media Training Workshop in Monywa
From August 15-17, a biodiversity assessment and media training workshop was held in Monywa. The training program was focused on communicating on development, biodiversity and livelihoods in the Chindwin River Basin. Endorsed by Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and Myanmar Environmental Institute (MEI), the workshop was attended by over 20 participants from government and non-government organizations and…
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Chindwin River Basin Scenario
Chindwin River Basin If I were a storyteller to the future generation about Chindwin River Basin, I would have started to explain about the Chindwin River, wouldn’t I? I got the story after interviewing with Than Htway Lwin from Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI). She gave me documents and reports related…
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First phase of Integrated Water Resources Management in Bago sub-basin area
The concept of Integrated Water Resources Management has been defined by the Global Water Partnership in 2011. In term, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize economic and social welfare in an…
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Bago River Awareness Raising started gathering tons of audiences
Public awareness and inclusiveness of local community are the characteristics of improvement signatures in building sustainable development. Besides, it is uneasy to make local people attractive to participate in one campaign. I reached out one of the public awareness campaigns organized by Forest Department Bago Region, Embassy of Norway and The Norwegian Institution for Water Research…
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Meeting with Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association about groundwater extraction
U Ye Htut, Chairman of Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association U Ye Htut, Chairman of Myanmar Purified Drinking Water Association, speaks about the story of the association, the objectives and the current activities in Myanmar. He provided me of information and profile of the association and tried to elaborate more…
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Working towards a Resilient Yangon, uncovering the water needs and challenges in Thaketa township
Since October 2018 a coalition of Dutch water organisations is working together in the ‘Urban Water Logistics for a Greater Yangon’ (UWLY) program to support the Yangon Regional Government in Urban Water and Water Logistics Challenges. The UWLY program, to run for three years as part of the Dutch Government…
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A glimpse into Myanmar water governance, 2020 – Interview with Thurein Maung Maung
All the water sector stakeholders need to be freed of bias, transcend our interest, and work together to give our country the best possible services. by Thurein Maung Maung, a water and sanitation professional Over 19 years of working experience in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, one of the Myanmar water…
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ရှေ့သို့ ခရီးရောက်တိုးတက်သော မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများဖြစ်ရေး နည်းဥပဒေသများ
တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ သဘောတူညီထားတဲ့ ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သော ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေး ရည်မှန်းချက် (Sustainable Development Goals) ကို အခုလက်ရှိအချိန်ကနေ ၂၀၃၀ ခုနှစ် အတွင်း ကျွန်တော်တို့ စွမ်းဆောင်အောင်မြင်နိုင်ဖို့ဆိုရင် လူပေါင်း သန်းတစ်ဝက်နီးပါးကို အန္တရာယ်ကင်း စိတ်ချရတဲ့ သောက်ရေရရှိအောင်၊ လူပေါင်းတစ်သန်းကို ပိုပြီးတိုးတက်ကောင်းမွန်တဲ့ မိလ္လာရေဆိုးထုတ်သန့်စင်စနစ်တွေ နေ့စဉ်ရရှိနိုင်ဖို့အတွက်လိုအပ်တယ်။ SDG 6 အရ ရေနှင့်မိလ္လာရေဆိုးသန့်စင်စနစ်အတွက် ရည်မှန်းချက်တွေပြည့်မီဖို့စကေးပမာဏကတော့ အကြီးကြီးပဲ။ ဒါပေမဲ့ လုံးဝမဖြစ်နိုင်တဲ့ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတော့မဟုတ်ဘူး။ အောင်မြင်မှုရရှိဖို့အတွက် ပါဝင်ရမယ့်အရာတွေ အများကြီးလိုအပ်တယ်။ သို့ပေမယ့် အခုလိုကြောက်လန့်စရာကောင်းတဲ့ လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ဟာ မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများပေါင်းစပ်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်းနဲ့ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု ဆိုတဲ့ အခန်းကဏ္ဍကို အခြားအစိတ်အပိုင်းတွေထက်ပိုပြီး အပြည့်အဝ အရေးပါစေတယ်။ ဒါကို မိတ်ဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနဲ့ နယ်ပယ်ကဏ္ဍပေါင်းစုံက အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေပူးပေါင်းပြီး ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းနည်း တွေကို ထောက်ခံအားပေးထားတဲ့…