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World Food Programme: Myanmar Annual Country Reports
WFP publishes various reports including situation reports, annual reports and etc. This dataset primarily shares the annual reports. Annual Country Reports (ACR) are a key accou...
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World Social Protection Report 2020-22: Regional companion report for Asia and the Pacific
This regional companion report is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020–22. It includes a section summarizing the status of social protection worl...
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NSSF information package for employers and workers
This information package which enumerates the benefits provided to workers by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the formalities and procedures of registration, contri...
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Local Development Funds in Myanmar An Initial Review
A growing number of Local Developments Funds (LDFs) are helping to drive “bottom-up” planning in Myanmar. This report provides an overview of international best practice in the ...
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Ethnic group development plan for health governance and nutrition development project
The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement P...
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Lao Poverty Policy Brief: Why Are Ethnic Minorities Poor?
An explanation on poverty within Laos, its origins and perpetuating factors, and how it breaks down along demographic lines.
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Underlying causes of deforestation in the Mekong region
This paper discusses the relationship between deforestation and development, as well as causation in deforestation. The paper then describes the situation in the Mekong, focusin...
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Participatory poverty assessment (PPA), Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
This report is an assessment of villagers' livelihoods and poverty in Attapeu Province in an effort to pinpoint areas for poverty reduction in development projects.
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Wild food collection and nutrition under commercial agriculture expansion in agriculture-forest landscapes 2016
Nutritional outcomes for rural inhabitants are determined not simply by food production in a landscape or even household incomes, but are highly influenced by access to and cont...
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Income risk perception and management by rural rarm households, Taking part in sugarcane contract farming in Lao PDR
Khamsong Village, Xaibury District, Savannakhet Provi nce, Lao PDR is located on high ground. The main income source for the majority of the villagers was rice. However, The a...
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Poverty Environment Initiative (PEI) Framework in Lao PDR
Despite the significant decline in poverty at the national level , poverty persists throughout the country and many people face challenges related to food securit...
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Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) Attapeu Province, Lao PDR
Attapeu is among the poorest provinces and partly because of its remoteness, has had few externally funded development projects. Many people in Attapeu have a subsistence leve...
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Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare
With the aim of promoting national food security, the Vietnamese government enforces the designation of around 35 per cent of agricultural land strictly for paddy rice cultivati...
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Aquaculture in transition: value chain transformation, fish and food security in Myanmar
A research reports authored by Ben Belton, Aung Hein, Kyan Htoo , L. Seng Kham, Ulrike Nischan, Thomas Reardon , Duncan Boughton, on Aquaculture in transition: value chain trans...
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Participatory poverty assessment (PPA) : lower Songkhram river basin, Thailand
The report of a participatory poverty assessment in Thailand’s lower Songkhram River Basin. The report describes general conditions of the basin communities, and socio-cultural ...
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The Green Revolution comes to Laos
A press release about the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation's funding of a 16-year effort to ensure food security in Laos. This project was led jointly by the Lao...