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Building Community Fisheries To Safeguard Fish Stocks, Life
In the rainy season, when the monsoons bring heavy rains, shrubs and small trees are submerged in the Sesan River. The Sesan runs from east to west from Vietnam’s central highlands across the…
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Protecting The Forest For Our Food
Phumi and her father traveled in the forest on a cart, tapping trees for resin used to make lacquer. He taught her the names of all the different types of trees.“I was very happy to see all the…
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Oxfam Launches 5-year Social Protection Program
Social protection for vulnerable groups and informal workers has become an important topic in 2015 Millennium Development Goals and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Oxfam today launches a…
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New Regulation on Community Saving Groups in Cambodia
The technical working group on community saving will improve the registration procedure based on feedbacks from the workshop. MRD committed to send out the final draft of the new regulation to…
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Tackling the Issues of Youth in the Mekong
Whilst the natural resources in the Mekong are shrinking day by day, a group of young Mekong environmental activists from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam came together in a two-day regional…
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Addressing Rising Income and Wealth Inequality in Asia: Reflections for Strategy 2030 from Civil Society with Oxfam
WHEN: Friday, 5 May 2017, 8:30 am–10:00 am, Annex Hall F205-206
The Asia and Pacific region has been the world’s model of rapid and sustained economic growth for more than two…
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Singapore, The City of Firsts
So whilst we worked with fans in Singapore, our friends in Cambodia were also spreading the word of solidarity there. It just goes to show - it’s not just Coldplay fans that know how to share…
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Reformed Fisherman Now Protecting The Mekong
“The village chief asked my wife to tell him about the location where we were fishing illegally and said he will not arrest me…but that if she did not tell him, when he caught me he…
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Multi Stakeholder Initiative on Extractive Industries in Cambodia
"I would like to express my thankfulness to members of EIGF who have committed time, resources and commitment. It is crucial to see each stakeholder play their roles in contributing to good…
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Bridging the digital divide in Cambodia
Two organizations in Cambodia have opened new Cambodia Community Innovation Centers in Pursat and Takeo provinces to help farmers access the Internet; many of them will use the Internet for the first…
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