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During the September 2015 Sustainable Development Summit, hunger and food insecurity was one of the key topics of discussion, producing the SDG 2 – End Hunger and Achieve Food S...

The FIES is a metric of severity of food insecurity at the household or individual level that relies on people’s direct yes/no responses to eight brief questions regarding their...

This report, commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Education Data for Decision Making (EdData) II Program, focuses on ways e...

Transcript of an interview conducted with historian Grant Evans, an anthropologist who specialized in Laos and produced numerous academic works about the country. Published in t...

A technical note to describe the agreed approach, scope and work plan for the formulation and assessment of basin-wide development scenarios in the Lower Mekong Delta.

To achieve the steady growth envisaged in this report, policy makers in developing Asia need to be vigilant of potential risks. Risks to Asia’s growth prospects could come fro...

The Asia-Pacific region as a whole has had considerable success with the MDGs, particularly in reducing levels of poverty. Nevertheless, the region is off track when it comes to...

This data booklet highlights current and future trajectories of populations in cities around the globe, drawing on population estimates and projections published in World Urbani...

This publication on urban development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)—a first of its kind—reflects recognition of the greater potential roles of urban development, increas...

This report shows that the low labor force participation of women is intimately related to how they allocate time between market and nonmarket activities. Indeed, in deciding wh...

The impacts of climate change on people's livelihoods have been widely documented. It is expected that climate and environmental change will hamper poverty reduction, or even ex...

Statement of the Ministers of Environment of the ASEAN member countries on implementing sustainable consumption and production.

This publication “ABC of SCP” aims to clarify the main terms and concepts related to sustainable consumption and production, and other terms associated with sustainable developm...

This report contains new information from field investigations carried out by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)and its partner Telapak. It exposes how the rapid growt...

This publication is a contribution of UN Women to the UN in Viet Nam. The report examines 17 sustainable development goals from a gender perspective and indicates that gender in...

The report mentions the current situation, causes of land degradation and desertification; solutions to drought and desertification; Land degradation and desertification in the ...

This is the report of Mekong project 4 on water governance: Challenge Program for Water and Food Mekong. The analysis report explored the key challenges and weaknesses in imp...

The report examines how investors can chart a course to assess system-level issues (like those contained in the SDGs) appropriate for their specific situation, and then establis...

Rates of access to improved water and sanitation in Vietnam are better than neighbouring countries, however with 87 million people Vietnam is the thirteenth most populous nation...

Vietnam is neither a State Party nor a signatory to 1997 Mine Ban Treaty nor the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. The article lists some recommendations for action on comta...