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Integrating Gender Issues in Recovery and Reconstruction Planning

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2011
Laos, Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania
grassroots organizations
property rights
This note on integrating gender issues in recovery and reconstruction planning is the fifth in a series of guidance notes on gender issues in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in East Asia and Pacific region. There are number of key challenges that women face in different elements of post disaster risk reconstruction and recovery. This note addresses the following bottlenecks: a) housing, land titling and property rights, b) health and post disaster violence, c) community services and infrastructure restoration, and d) poverty reduction, livelihood restoration and economic development.
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Doing Business Economy Profile 2013

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2012
Laos, Eastern Asia, Oceania
conflict of interest
notary
property rights
This tenth edition of Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers.
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Convergence under pressure

Different routes to private ownership through land reforms in four Mekong countries (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam)

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam
Land & Investments
land grabbing
land law
land policies
land reform
land tenure systems
private ownership
All four countries in continental South-East Asia featured in this paper (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) are experiencing land conflicts that could potentially destabilise their governments.1 Thailand is in a similar situation in many respects, as it has faced mounting tensions over land tenure since the 1990s (Hall et al., 2011). These conflicts are escalating, sometimes violent, and are attracting more and more attention from the media. They have mobilized numerous local and international NGOs, and often triggered the development of an increasingly visible national civil society.
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Trying to follow the money: Possibilities and limits of investor transparency in Southeast Asia's rush for "available" land

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2015
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Investments
land grabbing
extractive industries
tenure security
land ownership
land investments
land acquisitions
title deeds
land titling
ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Half a decade into the global land rush, land-intensive investment throughout Southeast Asia continues to confront social and environmental issues such as land conflict and improperly regulated forest conversion. This study uses publicly available financial and spatial data to examine the geography of land-intensive investment in Southeast Asia, and to identify the limits imposed by problems with data availability.
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ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and Indigenous Peoples

Institutional & promotional materials
Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2011
Asia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
Issue poster about the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and Indigenous Peoples.
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Rethinking the sustainability of the Mekong

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2014
Laos, South-Eastern Asia
land governance
land ownership
riparian rights
water management
water rights
The mekong is a major transboundary central to the lives of the people in the southeast asia,Since 2006 contested plans have emerged for up to eleven dams on the lower mainstream,with the first project-the Xayaboury dam-under contruction in the northerm laos since 2010 the paper explores how uncertainty shaps transboundary water governance such as the politics of scale and knowledge
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Indigenous Women in Southeast Asia: Challenges in their Access to Justice

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2013
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, South-Eastern Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land access
land ownership
land rights
legal empowerment
This briefing paper is prepared as part of the advocacy of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) for the respect, protection and recognition of the human rights of indigenous women. In this paper, we focus on access to justice for indigenous women in Southeast Asia facing development-induced violence.