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Strategic Regional Capacity-building (Infrastructure Development)

This two month project aimed at strategic capacity building, which involves the identification of key institutions (in this case in-country policy research institutes) to develop a regional network capable of screening assessments of regional infrastructure developments associated with the Greater Mekong Subregion investment program. Building on a one-year project, carried out from January-December 1999 between the AMRC and the National Economic Research Institute (NERI) of the State Planning Committee in Lao PDR, and on other research collaborations, the project sought to develop regional linkages between existing AMRC partners in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, and develop new linkages. The aim of these linkages is to build regional capacity in infrastructure planning, enhance critical assessment capabilities that currently rely mainly on external consultants, and to provide for cooperation in assessing projects with cross-border impacts.

Duration: May-August 2000

Funding bodies: AusAID (SEA Regional Programme)

Earlier project stages: Social & Environmental Policy Implications of Infrastructure Development in Lao PDR

Partners:

Can Tho University – Mekong Delta Institute
Can Tho City
Can Tho Province
VIETNAM

National Institute for Science Technology Policy and Strategic Studies
Ministry of Science Technology and Environment
38 Ngo Quyen St.
Hanoi
VIETNAM

National Economic Research Institute
State Planning Committee
Vientiane
LAO PDR

Participatory Development Training Centre
Luang Prabang Road
Vientiane
LAO PDR

Regional Centre for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development
Chiang Mai University
Chiang Mai
THAILAND

Focus on the Global South
c/o CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330
THAILAND
(FOCUS is a capacity building resource member
rather then an active research participant)

Planning and Environmental Policy Office
Ministry of Environment
CAMBODIA

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