Announcements

MRCS is arranging a Regional Training Workshop on Hydropower Environmental Impact Mitigation for the Lower Mekong Basin on January 23-24, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.For more details, please visit here ...

First Regional Workshop on the 1st Draft of the MRC’s Preliminary Guidelines for Wetland Inventory, WEFASAM and WBIA  will be held on January 4-5, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The two-day workshop is to discuss ten-selected international/sensitive wetland sites ...

Joint Committee Working Group Meeting on CEO’s Performance Appraisal will be held on January 4, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The meeting is to discuss and obtain a concrete roadmap for the second year of Chief Executive Officer’s ...

When: 28th and 29th June 2018 Where: Muntgebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands Topic: Land governance and (im)mobility:  Exploring the nexus between land acquisition, displacement and migration. Submissions for the Annual International Conference 2018 will be accepted until 11 February 2018. For more information and submission, please visit here ...

Researchers at the Business School of the National University of Singapore (NUS) have created the Productivity Research Network (PRN), in collaboration with the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research (ABFER) and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Their objective is to promote empirically based ...

Open Development Initiative is looking to hire a National (from any of the Lower Mekong Countries) to help support the ongoing maintenance and development of the opendevelopmentmekong.net (ODM) platform and country sites. ​Application:  Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until filled.Email:  recruitment@opendevmekong.netCommencement:  As soon ...

The Land Potential-Knowledge System (LandPKS; landpotential.org), a joint USAID-USDA program, was created to help put valuable information about the land, including climate, soils, and vegetation, in the hands of land managers across the world.Keep reading ...

1. The Third Lancang-Mekong Cooperation(LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, China on 15 December 2017. H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International ...

APN’s Annual Proposal Development Training Workshop (PDTW) will be held on 28 February-2 March, 2018 in Viet Nam.The training workshop is designed to enhance the capacity of young scientists and practitioners in Southeast Asia to develop competitive research proposals for funding. Another main focus of ...

The ninth World Urban Forum (WUF 9), convened by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), will bring together thousands of stakeholders to share practices and knowledge on how cities are built, planned and managed. For further information, please visit here ...