Nay Pyi Taw, 5 June 2016 — The President of the Union of Myanmar, His Excellency Mr. U Htin Kyaw, addressed six-hundred participants, including the Media, today at the ceremony for the World Environment Day 2016 held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. The event was organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation ...

May 25, 2016 Yangon. A stone laying ceremony for a low-cost housing project took place this morning in Dagon Myothit (Seikkan) Township in Yangon Region. The Government of Japan funded UN-Habitat to provide housing and basic services facilities for most poor and vulnerable families in the vicinity of the project area. The housing project is ...

The 3rd Basic Disaster Management Course (BDMC) started on 23rd May 2016 and will be for a duration of 11 days. U. Man Johnny, Honorable Chief Minister of Ayyerawaddy Division graced the opening ceremony of the 3rd basic disaster management course at DMTC Hinthada. He has extended a warm welcome to all the dignitaries and ...

Nay Pyi Taw, 27April 2016. The signing of “Exchange of Notes” between the Government of Japan and four UN agencies – UN-Habitat, UNHCR, WFP and FAO – took place on 27th April 2016, morning at the Ministry of Border Affairs. The Union Minister for Border Affairs of the Government of Myanmar H.E. Lt. General Ye ...

Yangon has approximately 300,000 squatters, many are from Ayeyawady Region that arrived after Cyclone Nargis hit in 2008, and others are migrant workers from various rural areas that came to the former capital in search of job opportunities. After Hlainghthaya, Dagon Myo Thit (Seikkan), located in the eastern part of Yangon, ranks second with over ...

 Nay Pyi Taw, 7 March 2016 – MCCA and partners, led by Myanmar, conducted the ASEAN Forum on Improvement of Knowledge, Skills and Competence of Stakeholders in Climate Change Adaptation in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, from 7th to 9th March 2016. The Forum was organized in partnership with the Department of Rural Development of the Ministry of ...

On 1st February 2016, the Basic Disaster Management Course (BDMC) (2nd batch) was opened at Disaster Management Training Center (DMTC), Hinthada Township, Ayeyarwady Region. H.E. Dr. Daw Myat Myat Ohn Khin, Honorable Minister of Social Welfare, officials of Relief and Resettlement and partners of Myanmar Consortium for Capacity Development on Disaster Management (MCCDDM) attended the ...

On 2nd December 2015 the Myanmar delegation to COP21 presented the important progress in addressing climate change, achieved with the implementation of the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance Programme, executed by UN-Habitat in partnership with UNEP at the event “GCCA+: a European Union Flagship Initiative Supporting Climate Resilience” held at the EU Pavilion in the COP21 ...

Background In December 2015, COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, will, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. Myanmar is highly vulnerable to climate change. The Global Risk Index ranks Myanmar ...

LIFT provides the funding for LAMP. UN-HABITAT Country Programme Manager Mr. Bijay Karmacharya, LAMP Senior Technical Adviser Ian Lloyd and LAMP team provided a briefing to LIFT on 29 September 2015. This included a live demonstration of the new database system for quality control of the land records and for maintaining the land records up ...