
The report provides recommendations on how Myanmar's Environmental Conservation Department (ECD) can improve its monitoring and compliance functions in the short and long term. Recommendations around linking the post-Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) approval permitting to monitoring and compliance and how to use civil society and other participatory mechanisms, as well as self-reporting mechanisms, are also provided.

In the context of merging the poverty and environment agendas, this brief outlines lessons from 50 years of UN sustainable development policy, including key messages, recommendations, inter-linkages between poverty-environment and global negotiations, new and continuing challenges, and the way forward regarding the triple-planetary crises.

Apart from examining the commitment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) toward the Lao community, this study also looks at their internal processes and treatments towards employees, customers, and suppliers. It focuses on the CSR commitment and operationalization aspect of tourism businesses as well as the challenges they face in implementing CSR and mainstreaming it into their core businesses.

The policy brief presents the key findings of the Baseline Study on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and provides policy recommendations for promoting CSR to government agencies who involving in regulating quality investments.

This Report takes a look at the results the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) achieved with countries and communities through 12 intense months; and features UNDP’s global ideas and research on building forward better.