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Wealthiest 1% uses up twice as much carbon as 3.1billion people, Asian emissions grow, worsening climate crisis and pollution

The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for twice as much carbon emission as the 3.1 billion people between 1990-2015.

Across Asia, emissions have nearly doubled. Most of the added carbon is used up by the richest ten percent leaving the...

Timor-Leste (East Timor)

Inclusive Economic Recovery Needed as Covid-19 Hits Informal Workers and Women in Agriculture in Timor-Leste.

COVID-19 has hit hard the incomes of informal workers and women in the agriculture sector in Timor-Leste. Daily wage workers’ income dropped by 65%, and 98% of women in agriculture earned less than US $ 50 per month - 32% worse than pre-State of Emergency figures -...

Nepal

Citizen Science - Engaging and Empowering Local Communities

Across South Asia’s transboundary river basins – the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM), and the Salween in Myanmar, we supported projects bringing together civil society, the scientific community, and policymakers to collaborate in novel ways to inform river governance related policies. At the center...

All over South Asia's river basins women are coming forward to participate in decision making processes.

Women and Water - Creating Positive Ripples in Transboundary Water Governance in South Asia

Women can play a critical role in water resource management. However, getting beyond gender obstacles in water resource management remains difficult. Women in South Asia, particularly in Ganga- Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basins, play a critical role in providing, managing, and safeguarding water...

Fostering regional disaster risk governance in South Asia

Disaster risk governance is key to effective planning, financing, implementation, and monitoring of progress towards resilience. While local context matters, there is growing evidence on the transboundary and regional context of disaster and climate risks. For example, the...

Leave no one behind: Rebuilding the ASEAN economy with a gender lens

Women’s rights to participation and representation in all spheres of life is vital in fully realizing their role as agents and beneficiaries of development.

Pakistan

Resilience in the face of COVID-19: The collective action of rice farmers in Pakistan

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every sector of the economy in Pakistan; the agriculture sector is no exception. However, proving its resilience in one of the country’s worst economic slowdowns, the agriculture and livestock sector fared far better than other services and small-scale...

Thailand

Pass or fail? 2019 Fair Finance Thailand Assessment Results: Are 9 Thai Banks More Responsible?

Fair Finance Thailand launched its second annual bank policy assessments for 9 largest Thai commercial banks.