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This publication presents the progress, achievements and some examples of initiatives where the EU is working closely with partners across Asia. FLEGT Asia complemented other in...

Indigenous women depend daily on the forests to supply the needs of their families for food, water, livelihood, firewood, shelter and health care.

A report analysis by Ratha Chea, Gaël Grenouillet, Sovan Lek on evidence of water quality degradation in Lower Mekong Basin revealed by self organizing map, published in the Low...

Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents q...

This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for Lao PDR will be applied to all investments to be financed by the World Bank for technical and/or financial support ...

On April 12, Radio Free Asia cited local government sources as confirming that Lao government orders to shut down environmentally destructive Chinese-owned banana farms, first r...

The Disaster Management Reference Handbook Series is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disa...

The United Nations Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council recently published the outcome of communications on the human rights impacts of the Don Sahong Dam. The Don Sah...

This report aims to show the results and findings of a study done on electricity consumption and generation plans in Thailand’s Krabi Province during the next 20 years (2018-203...

This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reac...

The first half of this Working Paper will give a background of the origins and development of environmental impact assessments. The second half of the paper will focus on enviro...

The rise of land investments in Laos has set off a reactive analysis of the processes and power relations at play in the Lao land rush.

Sustainable development of the hydro-power sector is founded on three important principles: (a) economic sustainability relies upon the maintenance of the renewable resource ba...

The World Bank undertakes periodic Investment Climate Assessments in order to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how the private sector is performing and where ...

Purpose to set up Community Forestry is to protect rights on land/forest and to protect precious spieces

Executive Summary This study is the first attempt to provide background information on the bamboo sector in Laos in general, and in Houaphan and Xiengkhouang Province in particu...

The Government of Lao PDR is determined to eradicate extreme poverty and move beyond the category of Least Developed Country by the year 2020. The uplands and upper watershed ca...

There are several dimensions of resource competition and actual or potential resource conflict in the NamNgum Watershed. Most immediately for manycommunities, competition betwe...

In recent years there have been significant changes in how the category of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ has become conceptualised in Cambodia. Indeed, in 1993, neither Indigenous ...

The importance of stakeholder participation in REDD+ schemes is well recognized both at UNFCCC negotiations[2,4] and in several REDD+ projects In 2007, the COP recogn...