CFI: launch of the Mekong Media Initiative
CFI launches a scheme to support online newsrooms in the Mekong region to publish content on environment, health and sustainable development.With the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and as part of its Mekong: Sustainable News project, CFI will help local newsrooms to ...
CFI Media Development
IPCC- Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL)
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food, the Intergovernmental Panel ...
[Fully funded] 2020 Mekong Journalism Exchange
The 2020 Mekong Journalism Exchange will bring together twelve qualified journalists from five Mekong countries to participate in a two-week journalism exchange from February 9, 2020-February 22, 2020. Journalists will explore critical issues in the Mekong region including water security and disinformation challenges. In addition, journalists will ...
East-West Center
The 2020 Fall YSEALI Professional Fellows Program
The YSEALI Professional Fellows Program provides emerging leaders ages 25-35 the opportunity to spend five weeks in the United States, including four weeks working directly with American counterparts in individually tailored work placements with relevant private and/or public sector organizations. During these placements, Fellows build their ...
U.S. Mission to ASEAN
Report: Spearheading Vietnam’s Green Agricultural Transformation : Moving to Low-Carbon Rice
This report focuses on promoting low-carbon rice production systems in Vietnam. There are many sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the agricultural sector in Vietnam, including along value chains and within the whole agri-food context. However, because rice production is so important to the ...
World Bank
MONRE issues press release on hydropower dam breakdown in Laos and impact on Mekong Delta
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has issued a press release on the collapsion of the hydroelectric XePan XeNamnoy hydroelectric dam in Laos and its impact on the Mekong Delta.According to the press release, in the coming days, water level in Cửu Long ...
ViEF - Vietnam Economic Forum
ViEF – Vietnam Economic Forum is a national and international economic forum which aims to discuss key issues and strategy regarding Vietnam’s macroeconomy. At the same time, the forum maintains constructive dialogues on public and private policies between the private sector, the government and stakeholders. The forum ...
VIEF
The opening ceremony of "Feel the Air" photo exhibition
The event, jointly organized by the Center of Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE) and the German Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, aims to raise public awareness about air pollution and encourages Vietnamese to be part of the solution and speak ...
ODI awards Can Tho University – Vietnam for contributing datasets on Mekong environment
As part of the Mekong Environment Forum and Can Tho University workshop on Building Community Capacity, the East-West Management Institute Open Development Initiative (ODI) supported a call for data submission to engage young and innovative Vietnamese citizen scientists to develop, implement and produce data driven ...
