The city of Yangon is one of the most vulnerable cities worldwide to climate change, suffering from widespread flooding during the monsoon while experiencing severe water shortages in the dry season. Starting in 2019, through a joint initiative of lo...
As part of the Thaketa Climate Adaptation Pilot Project, mid-point review surveying throughout the Thaketa ward-5 community was carried out to asset the level of involvement as of project Phase I (November 2020). The survey was carried out 6th-9th Ja...
The Thaketa Climate Adaptation Pilot Project takes place in Ward 5 of Thaketa, a township in the city of Yangon (Myanmar). In the pilot project, we are developing an innovative community-driven stakeholder participation process for designing and impl...
The evaluation study is commissioned by the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, in collaboration with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on behalf of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The evaluation assesses G4AW's objective to improve food secur...
On November 24, 2020, update call of Thaketa Climate Adaptation for Water Security Pilot Project was done with local government, Yangon City Development Committee by organizing the virtual online meeting amid COVID pandemic. The call was to shar...
Bottom-up approach to water, energy & agriculture innovation The Mekong Delta is classified as one of the world's most vulnerable deltas to climate change. Regarded as the "rice bowl" of Vietnam, agricultural strength in the Mekong Delta is...
As part of the Thaketa Climate Adaptation Pilot Project and in terms of making Thaketa Ward-5 to be more flood resilient, a four-day drainage level measurement campaign was carried out under the drainage improvement intervention with the lead of The ...
Htee City is a program dedicated to the future of Yangon as a city in which all people work together to adapt to a changing climate. Yangon Htee City Facebook page is a climate adaptation awareness page as part of the Thaketa Climate Adaptation Proje...
The pilot project takes places in Ward 5 of Thaketa, a township in the city of Yangon. Yangon is a major city in the Ayeyarwady Delta, one of the most vulnerable cities to climate change in South-East Asia, suffering from severe water scarcity and fl...