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...
Thaketa Climate Adaption Project_Mid-Point Review
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...
Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project: Phase-I Interventions
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...
Evaluation Study of the Geodata for Agriculture and Water Programme in Myanmar
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...
Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project_Envision A Water Resilient Community To The Next Level
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...
Mekong Delta Platform for community-level climate adaptation
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...
Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project_Drainage Level Measurement Campaign
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 ...
Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project_Yangon Htee City Facebook Page Launch
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...
Thaketa Climate Adaptation Project
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...