Announcements

and Best Practices by Shifting Cultivators in Asia-Pacific” are calling for papers and photographs.The book will explore the ways in which today’s shifting cultivators are innovating and adjusting their traditional practices to cope with the modern challenges of population growth, market economies, shortages of land ...

Big data is drastically improving our ability to understand the world around us.This event will showcase how big data and new technologies allow cities and local communities to seize new opportunities for jobs and manufacturing; deliver effective and inclusive transport and energy services; prepare for ...

We are calling for contributions to the conference “Rural Futures in South East Asia – A conference on Migration, Development and Climate Change”, which is co-organized by the TransRe project, the IPSR/Mahidol University and Raks Thai Foundation. The conference is to take place on 31.07.-02.08.2018 in Bangkok.The ...

The Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) will focus on the theme, ‘Transformations towards sustainable and resilient societies’. In addition to discussing the theme of the July 2018 meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2018) as it relates to regional and ...

Global Development Network (GDN)’s 18th Global Development Conference, titled ‘Science, Technology and Innovation for Development,’ will be held in New Delhi on 22-23 March, 2018. The conference will be a forum where global actors from governments, research, private sector and civil society can share knowledge and practices on ...

UNESCO Hackathon at FOSSASIA Summit will take place from Saturday March 24, to Sunday March 25, 2018 at the Lifelong Learning Institute, Singapore.The event aims to bring together forward thinking citizens with innovators, hackers, scientists, and makers from around the world in Asia, create open ...

The Mekong Tourism Forum 2018 will take place from 26-29 June 2018 at Nakhon Phanom University.MTF 2018 continues its objective from MTF 2017 to be inclusive and experiential. Similar as in Luang Prabang, where over 50 travel operators and tourism organisations were part in making ...

This guide helps development practitioners integrate human mobility into their work.About this guideThis guidebook helps you integrate migration and translocality into community-based adaptation.Steps to translocal resilienceUse our methods and suggested activities to explore and analyze migration patterns in your project area. In the end, you ...

 The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is convening the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) 2018 in Bangkok on 28 – 30 March 2018. They are hosting a CALL FOR CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION to help inform the agenda “Transformation ...

As a regional and inclusive preparatory event for the high-level political forum on sustainable development that will be held under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in July 2018, the Fifth Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable ...