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“The Networking and Storytelling Platform for Women Leaders in Water Governance” is being developed to allow for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing, connection, and learning to support women’s leadership in water and river governance in the Mekong region. With support from SPIDER, and collaboration with International Rivers, we ...

The Mekong River Commission will soon host its 13th Regional Stakeholder Forum, in which the MRC will not only provide updates of hydropower projects along Southeast Asia’s largest river, but will feature the deepening cooperation with activists who speak for the interests of millions of fishing and farming ...

ORGANISATION: OPEN CONTRACTING PARTNERSHIP LOCATION: VIRTUAL TIME: 10:00 EDT / UTC – 4 Join us for an exchange of ideas, plans and priorities for the open contracting agenda at upcoming global summits! We will be meeting on Thursday, November 3rd at 10:00 EDT / UTC – 4 (register here). This December, ...

The EarthRigths School is an intensive, residential training program for activists and earth rights defenders from the Mekong region (China, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) who are working on environmental and human rights issues. Through three months’ program we will provide the relevant knowledge, skills, and networks ...

Asian Research Center for International Development (ARCID) is presenting the 3rd Mekong Dialogue on “Water, Food, Energy, and Climate Nexus: The Role of Local NGOs in Mekong Region”. The dialogue will be hybrid, taking place both online via Zoom and in-person at the ARCID Bangkok ...

Through this activity, WIPO aims to celebrate and make widely known the creativity of Indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise their awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their creativity expressed in the photographs. The theme of the WIPO Photography ...

The Voices for Mekong Forests (V4MF) will host the project’s closing event on 30 November 2021. The European Union (EU) funded the V4MF project with the goal to strengthen civil society’s contributions for improved forest governance in the Mekong region. The project started in 2017 and will end ...

Secure land rights are central to eradicating poverty and hunger (Goal 1), advancing women equal rights to economic resources, including land (Goal 5), building a world of justice where human rights are protected (Goal 16), protecting the environment and fighting climate change (Goal 13), and ...

Type: Workshop When: 6 – 8 September 2021 Where: Hybrid, in Brunei Darussalam and online. Contact(s): Ms Marja Paavilainen, Senior Programme Officer, TRIANGLE in ASEAN Programme The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) is an open platform for the review, discussion and exchange of good practices and ideas between governments, workers’ and employers’ ...

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, working with the Henry Nxumalo Foundation, Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism and #WildEye Asia, is offering grants to journalists to investigate environmental crime in Asia.   We’re hoping for a diverse set of proposals and are reaching out to partners and ...