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James Grall
asia-eurasia regional director
jgrall@pactworld.org
Christine de Guzman
program manager
cdeguzman@pactworld.org
Pact is working in Laos to ensure socially and environmentally responsible development as the country grows.
Through the Lower Mekong Initiative, Pact supports a platform to address transnational development challenges. The project is strengthening the ability of Lower Mekong governments to understand and manage shared natural resources, improve joint planning and coordination and deploy new technologies, approaches and methodologies for sustainable development, natural resource conservation and climate change.
Stories and Highlights
New grants and fellowships aim to raise local voices from the Mekong region
August 26, 2021
It was a regular Wednesday morning in Bangkok. Pact’s Thailand staff, working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, kept an eye on the Zoom chat as the screen began to fill with faces. Participants...
Water management capacity building in the year of Covid-19
January 25, 2021
When the first Covid-19 cases were reported, the Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership team was still closing out its biggest annual event, the Mekong Research Symposium in Hanoi, Vietnam. Almost...
Building a better post-Covid-19 world with the private sector
June 4, 2020
Covid-19 has created one of the most widespread humanitarian and economic crises in recent history. Despite years of pandemic warnings issued, most governments, civil society, research institutions...
From data to knowledge: How Pact is working with Mekong partners to solve water policy problems
April 13, 2020
The Mekong River turned blue in the December-January dry season of 2019 and 2020. This postcard-pretty hue was not good news, however. The color change, from its regular muddy brown to a clear...
In Lao PDR, managing crucial groundwater resources is an international team effort
September 12, 2019
It’s a cloudy day in the late July rainy season in Savannakhet, a province in central Lao PDR that sits along the Mekong River and the Thai border. A group of men and women is gathered around a thick...
Mekong Partnership for the Environment: Regional governments and civil society are improving public participation
March 21, 2016
As everyone filed into the meeting room, they stopped to greet familiar faces. Some shook hands, others gave friendly waves, wai’s or pats on the back. Diverse voices and backgrounds filled the venue...
World leaders pledge support for responsible growth in Mekong region
August 17, 2015
At a meeting of the Lower Mekong Initiative in Malaysia this month, leaders from six nations agreed that as the region transforms, short-term growth must not come at the expense of long-term...
Mekong government, civil society support strong EIAs
December 5, 2014
Government and civil society representatives highlighted the need for strong and inclusive environmental impact assessment (EIA) policies and practices in the Mekong region at a meeting this week in...