As the economic engine of the Vietnam Mekong River Delta, Can Tho city is at the forefront of climate change adaptation.
Mekong
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.
SEI Asia’s SUMERNET (Sustainable Mekong Research Network) programme informed the recent Greater Mekong Region’s Fifth Environment Ministers meeting.
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.
With slow-onset events like sea-level rise and drought threatening farmers in the Mekong Delta, the search is on for policies that can protect farmers
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
Climate change is resulting in severe negative impacts on many food-producing areas of the Mekong Region, posing risks of food insecurity.
