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Learning Across Boundaries in the Greater Mekong Sub-regionSoutheast Asia Regional Program
Asian Resource Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: $250,000 in continued support of a research fellowship program entitled "Islam in Transition in Southeast Asia: A View from Within," for young Muslim scholars in Southeast Asia.
Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $350,000 in continued support the Development Analysis Network, a network of development research institutes in the Greater Mekong Sub-region countries, and for a collaborative research project on the consequences of China's rise as an economic power on poverty reduction in the region.
Center for Khmer Studies, New York, United States: $200,000 in continued support of its efforts to enhance the capacity of Cambodian universities, by providing study and research opportunities on regional issues to young faculty in both public and private academic institutes in Cambodia.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $300,000 for use by its Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development in continued support of the Center's efforts to strengthen its study exchange program, its cross-border institutional linkages and its research program on regionalization in the countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thaialnd: $500,000 for use by its Faculty of Arts to continue its fellowship program, Weaving the Mekong into Southeast Asia, thus enabling fifteen students from Greater Mekong countries to participate in its international master's degree program in Southeast Asian Studies, while building its institutional capacity to undertake programs with a regional scope.
Institute for Social Development Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam: $150,000 in continued support of a project to enhance knowledge and public awareness of the social protection needs of migrant workers in and from Vietnam through studies, publications, workshops and educational campaigns.
IPS ASia Pacific Center Foundation Inc., Quezon City, Philippine: $250,000 toward the costs of "Imaging Our Mekong," a print and TV journalists' fellowship program jointly-managed with the Probe Media Foundation to address cross-border issues in the countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
National Academy of Social Science, Vientiane, Lao PDR: $150,000 for use by its Information and Documentation Center to create an electronic databank presenting existing and newly collected data on the lives and cultures of the diverse ethnic groups in Lao PDR.
National Academy of Social Science, Vientiane, Lao PDR: $56,270 in support of the final phase of a social impact analysis of increased mobility and its implication for increased HIV transmissions and substance abuse in lao PDR's border areas with China, Myanmar and Thailand.
Probe Media Foundation, Quezon City, Philippine: $250,000 toward the costs of "Imaging Our Mekong," a print and TV journalists' fellowship program jointly-managed with the IPS Asia Pacific Center Foundation to address cross-border issues in the countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Asian Migrant Center, China: $425,000 in continued support of the Mekong Migration Network, which brings together migrant groups, educators, civil society, UN partner agencies to work on the monitoring and analysis of migration issues, needs, responses and straegies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Cambodia: $250,000 in support of the final phase of a collaborative research program to investigate intra-regional agricultural trade in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Chiang Mai University, Thailand: $360,000 for use by its Women's Studies Center's Lao-Thai Program on Gender Equity and Development, including its master's level scholarships for students from Lao PDR.
Chiang Mai University, Thailand: $350,000 for use by its Social Research Institute to conduct a study, related to the Institute of Development Studies' "Asian Drivers" research program, on the impact of China's rise on the agricultural sector of the countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Fujian Normal University, China: $40,000 towards the costs of a working session entitled, "Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in the Greater Mekong Sub-region," at the 8th International Conference of the Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, to be held in Fuzhou, China, May 20007.
Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam: $375,000 for the second and final phase of a collaborative project among Vietnamese institutions to enhance research and training capacity in sustainable agriculture development and natural resource management in the uplands of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
MIDAS Agronomics Co. Ltd, Thailand: $160,000 toward the costs of a project to assess the competitive advantage of upland crops for emerging regional markets in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and thus generate knowledge and foster new thinking on transitional policy and intervention approaches to alleviate poverty of upland communities.
SIS Forum Malaysia, Malaysia: $40,630 toward the costs of a two-week course on "Understanding Islam from a Rights Perspective," to be held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, August 2006.
FY 2005Association for Women's Rights in Development, Canada: $75,000 for partial support of the Access Fund to enable participants from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to attend the International Forum on Women's Rights in Development to be held in Bangkok next October.
Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $450,000 in support of a project to enhance the study of emerging regional trends in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through research collaboration among institutions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province, China.
Chiang Mai University, Bangkok, Thailand: $20,000 toward the costs of the participation of Southeast Asian artists, curators, critics, and public arts activists in the international symposium "Public Art In(ter)vention," which aims to consider the interface of contemporary visual arts and social issues affecting disadvantaged communities in the Mekong Sub-region, to be held in Chiang Mai, February 2005.
Chiang Mai University, Bangkok, Thailand: $141,060 for use by its Social Research Institute toward the costs of phase two of a collaborative study of the tourism industry in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and its multiple impacts on socio-economic development, culture and the environment.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: $64,090 For use by its Asia Research Center for Migration to study the social protection needs of Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian migrant workers in Thailand and propose policy responses and interventions.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $190,000 toward the costs of engaging consultants, convening meetings and accomplishing other program management activities in support of the Learning Across Boundaries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Area of Work.
Fund for Reconciliation and Development, New York, United States: $100,000 toward the costs of a series of consultations and publications to promote cooperation and understanding between the United States and Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam, as well as within the Indochina sub-region.
Institute for Social Development Studies, Hanoi, Vietnam: $99,720 in support of a project to enhance knowledge and public awareness of the social protection needs of migrant workers in and from Vietnam through studies, publications, workshops and educational campaigns.
IPS Inter Press Service International Association, Rome, Italy: $369,618 for use by its Regional Office for Asia-Pacific in Thailand toward the costs of Imaging Our Mekong, a joint media fellowship program with the Probe Media Foundation, designed to address cross-border and cross-cultural issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand: $100,000 For a capacity-building program for young scholars from the Greater Mekong Sub-region to examine regional development paradigms and applications.
Probe Media Foundation, Quezon, Philippines: $391,430 toward the costs of Imaging Our Mekong, a joint media fellowship program with the IPS Inter Press Service International Association, designed to address cross-border and cross-cultural issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand: $170,000 for use by its Faculty of Liberal Arts to strengthen a newly established resource center on the Greater Mekong Sub-region and establish a Mekong Studies Program.
Asian Resource Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: $252,030 in continued support of a research fellowship program entitled, "Islam in Transition in Southeast Asia: A View from Within," for young Muslim scholars in the region.
Center for Khmer Studies, New York, United States: $350,000 in support of its efforts to enhance the capacity of Khmer universities by providing study and research opportunities on regional issues to young faculty in both public and private academic institutes in Cambodia. For more information, please visit the website.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $555,000 for use by its Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development in support of its efforts to broaden its exchange study program, build institutional linkages across borders and strengthen collaborative research on the on-going regionalization process in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $99,500 for use by its Social Research Institute to undertake the first phase of a collaborative study of the tourism industry in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and its multiple impacts on socio-economic development, culture and the environment.Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $94,650 for use by its Social Research Institute to finalize, publish and disseminate the results of a comparative study on the impact of globalization, regionalization and nationalism on the cultures and social systems of selected ethnic groups in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $81,840 for use by its Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge Studies Center for Research and Sustainable Development toward the costs of a project to increase understanding of the impacts of sub-regional growth and infrastructural development on changing eco-systems and the lives and livelihoods of poor communities in Yunnan Province of China, Lao PDR and Thailand.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: $452,820 for use by its Faculty of Arts to continue its fellowship program, Weaving the Mekong into Southeast Asia, thus enabling fifteen students from Greater Mekong countries to participate in its international master’s degree program in Southeast Asian Studies, while building its institutional capacity to undertake programs with a regional scope.
Empower Foundation, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $50,000 in support of: (1) the participation of Southeast Asian artists in the sixth "Asiatopia Performance Art Festival," (2) research on performance art in Southeast Asia and (3) a workshop to assess the past and future of performance art in the region.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $100,000 for the costs of establishing an advisory committee and an evaluation team to initiate a systematic process of monitoring and evaluation for the Foundation’s Learning Across Boundaries area of work.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $70,000 to provide assistance to the Southeast Asia Regional Program's Learning Across Boundaries area of work in order to better address linguistic and cultural diversity concerns in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.Mekong Institute Foundation, Khon Kaen, Thailand: $350,000 for the costs of holding a series of policy summits and preparing the findings for decision makers of the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Ministry of Information and Culture, Laos, Vientiane, Lao PDR: $108,650 for use by its Institute of Cultural Research to create an electronic databank presenting existing and newly collected data on the lives and cultures of the diverse ethnic groups in Lao PDR.
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand: $43,460 in support of a planning meeting, to be held in Thailand in October 2004, to allow key Mekong cultural institutions to interact with U.S. organizations in developing joint activities in preparation for the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, entitled “The Mekong River: Connecting Cultures”.Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $227,000 in support of the establishment of a non-profit publishing mechanism to promote the production and dissemination of writing and scholarship on the Mekong sub-region by writers from the region.
Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand: $116,820 for use by its Faculty of Liberal Arts to establish a resource center on the Greater Mekong Sub-region and organize an international conference on the region's transboundary issues.
Visiting Arts, London, England: $119,800 in support of a project to research and develop cultural profiles of Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR, and to train local personnel in research methodology and editorial work.
Yunnan Provincial Museum, Kunming, China: $32,825 for use by its Yunnan Cultural Heritage Research Centre in support of a cross-border capacity-building and networking initiative – with a focus on ethnic handmade papermaking – among museums and research institutions in Yunnan Province of China, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam.
Asian Migrant Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong: $297,103 to continue support for the monitoring and analysis of migration issues, needs, responses and strategies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, and to strengthen the newly established Mekong Migration Network.
Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $250,000 to enhance the study of emerging regional trends in the Greater Mekong Sub-region through support of research collaboration among institutions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam.Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok Thailand: $234,408 for use by its Faculty of Arts to launch a fellowship program, Weaving the Mekong into Southeast Asia, thus enabling eight students from Greater Mekong countries to participate in the master's degree program in Southeast Asian Studies.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $18,500 for use by its Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development to add Vietnam to an ongoing experimental exchange program for graduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the Greater Mekong Sub-region to study the civilization and culture of the Mon and Mon-Khmer people of the region.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $87,655 for use by its Social Research Institute toward the cost of a comparative study on the impact of globalization, regionalization and nationalism on the culture and social systems of selected ethnic groups in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.Dararith Kim-Yeat, Vaison la Romaine, France: $30,000 to undertake research on the relationship between human rights, labor and international trade laws in the context of economic integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Empower Foundation, Nonthaburi, Thailand: $18,900 for use by its Concrete House to support participation by Greater Mekong and Asean artists in Asiatopia 5, a performance arts festival held in Thailand, November 10-23, 2003.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $100,000 toward the costs of further enhancing the conceptual development of the Southeast Asia Regional Program's Learning Across Boundaries Area of Work through better integration of the notion of identity boundaries with that of geo-political boundaries.
Fund for Reconciliation and Development, New York, United States: $100,000 in support of its work to promote cooperation and understanding between the United States and Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam.
Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam: $60,000 for use by its College of Arts to support Mekong and Asean sculptors to participate in the Fourth International Sculpture Symposium held on May 1-June 15, 2004, in Hue, Vietnam.National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam: $25,205 to support participation of scholars, social activists and government officials in a regional conference on cooperation among countries in the Mekong Sub-region: challenges and opportunities in the context of new changes in Asia-Pacific, to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Siam Society Under Royal Patronage, Bangkok, Thailand: $50,000 to support a series of cultural performances by ethnic groups from Mekong countries now residing in Thailand, thus promoting understanding of the close linkages among the various ethnic identities in the region.Top Production House, Vientiane, Lao PDR: $95,890 toward the production costs of "Growing-up on the Mekong", a series of television episodes to inform Lao youth about emerging socio-cultural trends in the Grater Mekong Sub-region.
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, Vietnam: $135,000 to continue support for a cross-border capacity-building initiative among museums and cultural institutions in Yunnan (China), Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam that will culminate in a collaborative travel exhibit entitled "Thai Textiles in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Change and Continuation".
Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming, China: $54,478 toward the cost of a comparative study on the impact of globalization, regionalization and nationalism on the culture and social systems of selected ethnic groups in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Asian Resource Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand: $135,840 to support a research fellowship program entitled “Islam in Transition in Southeast Asia: A View from Within” for young Muslim intellectuals in the region.
Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia: $90,000 toward the costs of a comparative research project on off-farm and non-farm employment creation in Cambodia, Lao DPR, Thailand and Vietnam.
Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge, Kunming, Yunan, China: $36,000 toward the cost of the III Montane Mainland Southeast Asia, which aims to encourage dialogue and intellectual exchange among researchers, decisionmakers, development workers and indigenous leaders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region on preservation of indigenous knowledge and natural resources across countries, to be held in Lijiang City, Yunnan, China.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $86,460 for use by its Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development in support of an experimental exchange program for graduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region to study the civilization and culture of the Mon and Mon-Khmer people of the region.
China Council for International Cooperation on Environment, Vancouver, Canada: $22,400 to support a series of study visits by selected mid-career Myanmar experts to China to participate in the meetings of the China Council Task Forces focusing on environment, biodiversity and development.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: $84,455 for use by its Institute of Asian Studies to support a collaborative research project with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Hanoi, on the migratory movements of Vietnamese citizens to Thailand and back during the past sixty years.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $100,000 toward the cost of engaging consultants, conducting workshops and publishing studies in support of the Foundation's Learning Across Boundaries area of work in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines: $300,000 to support the development of an education-entertainment approach to motivate Vietnamese and Laotian farmers to reduce pesticide use thereby enhancing human and environmental health.
IPS Inter Press Service International Association, 00184 Rome, Italy: $191,226 for use by its Regional Office for Asia-Pacific in support of the recently launched “Our Mekong: A vision Amid Globalisation” media fellowship program oncross-border and cross-cultural issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand: $25,000 for use by its Faculty of Agriculture toward the costs of a joint Cambodian-Thai effort to assess the institutional needs of Cambodia's agriculture colleges and formulate recommendations to address them by drawing on the resources of Thailand’s agricultural university system.
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand: $250,000 for use by its Faculty of Agriculture’s Office of International Agriculture toward the costs of a training program for selected faculty members of three Laotian agricultural colleges.
Komol Keem Thong Foundation, Bangkoknoi, Bangkok, Thailand: $95,023 for use by its Mirror Art Group to create a Hilltribe Virtual Museum on the Internet to educate the public in Thailand and beyond about the rapidly vanishing languages and cultures of tribal people living in Northern Thailand.
Mae Fah Luang University, Chiangrai, Thailand: $10,000 toward the costs of a seminar for staff of universities, government ministries and UN agencies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region countries on the role of higher education in developing human resources for the region.Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand: $33,013 for use by its Institute for Population and Social Research for a participatory research project on the life experiences of migrant girls and young women from Myanmar employed as factory workers or domestic helpers in Thailand.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane, Lao PDR: $35,000 for use by its National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute to support human resource development through 20 fellowships to qualified staff of the Lao National Rice Research Program to enter diploma and bachelor of science programs at Lao educational institutions.
Probe Media Foundation, Inc., Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines: $250,000 to continue support for the “Imaging the Mekong” media fellowship program on cross-border and cross-cultural issues in the Greater Mekong Sub-region.
Rajamangala Institute of Technology, Kalasin Campus, Kalasin, Thailand: $230,200 toward the cost of short-term training initiatives in education management and teaching capacity and technical skills development for selected faculty and administrators and scholarships for bachelor’s degree study for selected students of six Laotian agricultural technical colleges and vacational schools.
Rajamangala Institute of Technology, Kalasin Campus, Kalasin, Thailand: $10,000 to foster linkages among Cambodian, Lao and Thai institutions of agricultural education and research.
Sanga Sabhasri Research Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $50,000 to support an international symposium on uses and effects of pesticides in Thailand: ecological, biomedical, and economic, to be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
SEASREP Council, Quezon City 1108, Philippines: $111,135 to support and examination of the “Mekong region” as a socio-cultural construct by reviewing relevant literature and the production of an anthology of original writings from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Silpakorn University, Bangkok 10170, Thailand: $100,000 for use by its Faculty of Painting, Sculture and Graphic Arts to support a collaborative bilateral scholars-in-residence program with the College of Arts at Hue University in Vietnam.
SIS Forum (Malaysia) Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: $78,300 to support a two-stage meeting for Muslim women intellectuals and activists from Southeast Asia to share experiences among themselves and with Muslim women in West Asia and the Middle East on the challenges they face as a result of rising fundamentalism.
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $35,000 to support a regional workshop on identity-based politics and its impact on the well-being of women in Asia and the Pacific, held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Asian Migrant Centre, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China: $62,040 in support of exploratory efforts to map and analyze migration issues in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand: $171 ,400 for use by its Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development for an experimental exchange program for graduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai. Thailand: $78,860 for use by its Social Research Institute in support of intellectual exchange within the Greater Mekong Subregion regarding societal preparedness to address poverty in light of the rapid changes engulfing the region.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: $50,000 for use by its Institute of Security and International Studies in support of a regional workshop on ethnic conflict in Southeast Asia. to be held in Bangkok, Thailand.
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand: $13,000 for use by its Asian Research Center for Migration to support the participation of five senior and middle-level managers from Mekong countries involved in policymaking and assistance programs for forced migrants in its Southeast Asia Regional School in Forced Migration.
Foundation-administered Project, USA: $200,000 for explorations leading to the formulation of a regional strategy that addresses significant inequities characterizing the Mekong Region.
Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam: $45,000 for use by its College of Arts to support the participation of sculptors from Mekong and ASEAN countries in the Third International Sculpture symposium, held in Hue, Vietnam, April and May 2002.
IPS Inter Press Service International Association, Rome, Italy: $70,500 for use by its Regional Office for Asia-Pacific in support of an experimental media project on cross-border issues in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand: $25,000 to support a priority-setting workshop focusing on the needs of educational institutions in Laos and identifying Thai universities to provide curriculum development and staff training, particularly in agriculture and forestry.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientian, Lao, PD.R.: $10,000 to support the upgrading of telecommunications services to key research and agricultural educational institutions throughout the Lao, PD.R.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientian. Lao. PD.R.: $350,000 to support the upgrading of agriculture and forestry technical colleges in Lao, RD.R.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientian Lao. PD.R.: $38,000 toward the costs of a pilot project on Community Seed Multiplication and Rice Banks.
Prince of Songkla University, Hadyai, Thailand: $47,067 to support an international conference on current social transformations in southern Thailand, to be held in Pattani, Thailand.
Probe Media Foundation, Inc., Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines: $99,000 to support an experimental media-fellowship program on cross-border issues in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, Vietnam: $57,910 in support of networking activities among museums in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
