Linking six countries in Southeast Asia, the Mekong region faces a range of sustainability policy challenges and opportunities, from regional cooperation around water resource management to agricultural transformations, forest protection and sustainable industrialisation. Most of SEI’s work in the Mekong region is coordinated by SEI Asia.
Understanding gendered experiences in the energy sector is crucial to ensuring transitions to renewable energy are of benefit for all.
How is the issue of arsenic in rice perceived in Cambodia, in terms of public health, mitigation measures and policy? Where are the knowledge gaps?
The tragedy of the Xepian-Xe Nam hydropower dam collapse in Laos is an opportunity to reflect on how transforming development can reduce disaster risk.
Smallholder farmers in the Mekong region face increasingly insecure livelihoods as land resources are drawn into the hands of developers.
Can Tho City, the biggest city in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, is facing substantial water and climate change challenges.
As the economic engine of the Vietnam Mekong River Delta, Can Tho city is at the forefront of climate change adaptation.
Improving understanding of the influence that recovery narratives have had on how decisions and actions are undertaken to recover from a disaster.
Drastic reduction in sediment flows in the Mekong River are happening much faster and are larger than previously expected.
Sediment carriage and deposition in the Mekong River have been altered in part by infrastructure development, riverbed mining and climate change.
SEI is developing a gender inequality index for Cambodia and Vietnam for better analysis of gender gaps and vulnerabilities in the Mekong Region.
This white paper studies women working in the energy sectors of four Lower Mekong countries.
This gender mainstreaming strategy has been developed for USAID Clean Power Asia to provide a gender framework for the programme’s work