Announcements

Earth Journalism Network (EJN)’s Asia-Pacific project aims to overcome these barriers by providing grants and mentorship to individual journalists to report on climate change, environment and natural resource management. They are seeking in-depth or investigative stories that focus on climate and environmental change or natural resource management ...

Experiences of water insecurity vary depending on identity issues including gender, ethnicity, race, class and age. While women play significant roles in managing water resources, their contributions are often overlooked. This discussion brief outlines some approaches to inclusive decision making within water governance mechanisms. Read ...

Mekong Institute invites rural- and urban-based social enterprises to a regional modular training program on Rural E-Commerce Development in Lancang-Mekong Countries on March 25-29, 2019. The training aims to build the capacity of rural e-commerce development professionals from Cambodia, P.R. China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Vietnam and ...

TIJ-UNODC, with a team from Standford d.school, invite Asia Pacific youths to join in this first ever TIJ-UNODC Borderless Youth Forum 2019. This Forum adopts techniques taught at Design Across Borders, a Stanford d.school class. This technique allows participants to dive deep into local justice challenges, ...

In the spirit of co-creation, the agenda for the OGP Global Summit will be based on an open call for session proposals and speakers. Starting in January 2019, members of the OGP community are invited to submit their ideas for sessions via OGP’s Apply Portal. ...

Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering grants to journalists in the Asia-Pacific region to support in-depth and investigative reporting on climate and environmental change that can inform at-risk communities and policy makers to make better decisions and build resilience. EJN expects to award around 30 ...

The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. More than two-thirds of countries score below 50 ...

Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the ninth time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities. It is an opportunity ...

A new book titled: “The Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Asia”, written for Minority Rights Group International (MRG) based in London, discusses issues that indigenous and tribal peoples of Asia are facing, including complex threats to their survival as ...

On Thursday January 31st 2019, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and the Regional Centre for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University (RCSD) will be holding a public workshop in Bangkok under the title Migration and Women’s Land Tenure Rights and ...