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Community forestry adaptation roadmap to 2020 for Lao PDR
Community-based forest management in Lao PDR lacks strong legal standing. However, the legal revision process currently underway promises increased rights for communities over...
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The State of the World’s Forests 2018: Forests Pathways to Sustainable Development
The 2018 edition of The State of the World’s Forests aims to do just that, presenting new information to help recognize these interlinkages and enhance our understanding of how ...
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Desk Reference
This document is one of three main publications of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015). It contains data for most of the quantitative and Boolean variables c...
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Global Forest Resource Assessment 2010: Main Report
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 (FRA 2010) is the most comprehensive assessment of forests and forestry to date - not only in terms of the number of countries and pe...
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Traditional Customary Laws and Indigenous Peoples in Asia
For years, traditional laws – or customary laws – in Asia have been eroded. This report argues that remaining customary laws should be retained and discusses the extent to which...
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Does Land Tenure Security Enhance Sustainable Land Management? Evidence from Mountainous Regions of Thailand and Vietnam
Neoclassical theory states that land tenure security plays an important role in determining long-term investment for sustainable land use. The case studies from Thailand and Vie...
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ODA and other public investment priorities as part of the public debt management strategy
This paper presents a framework for prioritizing public investment projects, including overseas development assistance (ODA). It is intended as input into the government’s New O...
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Managing aid for trade and development results - Vietnam Case study
The study reviews Vietnam’s economic development and its trade performance in the last two decades, as the country has moved to a market-based economy and opened up to the world...
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Forest investment program, Laos investment plan
This report highlights Laos investment in forest management and opportunities for REDD+. The report discusses the forest sector in Laos and summarises the Laos REDD+ programme. ...
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Looking back on 20 years of ODA
According to the report by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, international donors pledged to support $ 80 billion in official development assistance (ODA) to Viet Nam dur...
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ODA attraction: Looking at the past, orienting to the future
Official development assistance (ODA) has helped Vietnam to build the foundation to attract other resources in the country's construction over the past 20 years. But the situati...
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Plan to attract, manage and use ODA capital and preferential loans in the period of 2016-2020
On June 21, 2016, the An Giang provincial People's Committee issued the Plan No 312/KH-UBND on attracting, managing and using ODA capital and preferential loans in the period of...
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Development Finance for SDGs in middle income Vietnam
This study contributes to a better understanding of the role that development finance sources played in recent years. It also identifies opportunities and challenges of developm...
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International standards: Right to information
It is increasingly being recognised that governments hold information not for themselves but, rather, on behalf of the public and that, as a result, public bodies should provide...
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National Support Assessment Report in Viet Nam
This assessment research was conducted with the purpose to reviewing Japan's overall policy on assistance to Viet Nam, including the National Support Policy to Vietnam, 2004 and...
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Improve the efficiency of ODA use
The article is posted on the Ministry of Finance's Web Portal, analyzes the current status and points out the limitations in disbursement, management and use of ODA in Vietnam. ...
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Cassava development and forest protection in Vietnam, 2015
The Report on the Development of Cassava and Forest Protection in Viet Nam: National Policy, International Market and Citizens' Livelihoods discuss the interactions among these ...
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Policy Briefings Phase 3: (2013-2018)
This policy booklet provides policy recommendations on key sustainable development issues in the Mekong Region that were explored by the collaborative research projects of SUMER...
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Climate risks, regional integration and sustainability in the Mekong Region
This book brings together multi-country empirical case studies that explore complexities of resource management and governance in the Mekong region, including 10 collaborative s...
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Common guidance for the identification of High Conservation Value
This document builds on a series of Good Practice guides for High Conservation Value (HCV) practitioners and auditors. Over the past few years, as global HCV definitions are ame...