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.
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Program / SUMERNET brings together research and policy partners to engage with water insecurity in the Mekong Region.
SEI brief / Water insecurity increases women’s caring burden. This brief explores how experiences of water insecurity in the Lower Mekong Region are gendered.
SEI brief / Understanding gendered experiences in the energy sector is crucial to ensuring transitions to renewable energy are of benefit for all.
SEI working paper / 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?
Perspective / 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.
Perspective / Smallholder farmers in the Mekong region face increasingly insecure livelihoods as land resources are drawn into the hands of developers.
Feature / Can Tho City, the biggest city in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam, is facing substantial water and climate change challenges.
SEI brief / As the economic engine of the Vietnam Mekong River Delta, Can Tho city is at the forefront of climate change adaptation.
Journal article / Improving understanding of the influence that recovery narratives have had on how decisions and actions are undertaken to recover from a disaster.









