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Publications Year 2008
Final Report: Innovative Approaches to Social Protection for HIV Vulnerable and Positive Households: Experiences from Communities in the Mekong, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, November 13-14, 2007.
This publication is the outcome of the meeting “Innovative Approaches to Social Protection for HIV Vulnerable and Positive Households, Experiences from Communities in the Mekong" held on November 13-14, 2007 at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The meeting was organized by the International Labor Organization (ILO), in partnership with UNAIDS in Cambodia with support from The Rockefeller Foundation. This meeting was structured around themes which emphasized the role of the community in the development and implementation of social protection mechanisms for HIV vulnerable and positive households.
This publication is carried out by Institute for Social Development Studies with the support of The Rockefeller Foundation. Grants are awarded 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.
This research publication intends to draw upon a field research to produce a comprehensive analysis of the core relationships between migration and socioeconomic transformation in Vietnam in order to overcome social and health vulnerabilities that many migrants encounter. For more details, please contact here or visit The Gioi's website.
This publication is part of ISLAM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM WITHIN series which is the result of a research fellowship program offered by the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Grants are awarded to promising Muslim scholars in Southeast Asia for innovative research on economic, socio-political, and cultural changes taking place in their diverse communities.
This publication aims to examine the implementation of shariah in Indonesia, using Cianjur regency as a case study. Specifically, the study will examine the position of non-Muslim minorities in regard to shariah implementation in this regency. For more details, please contact here or visit Silkworm's website.
This publication compiled the paper drawn from an international conference, entitled 'Transborder Issue in the Greater Mekong Subregion'. The conference was hosted by the Mekong Subregion Social Research Center (MSSRC), at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchthani University between June 30th and July 2nd, 2005. The conference was sponsored and funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, the Royal Thai Government, Oxfam America- Southeast Asia Regional Office, the Princess Maha Chakri Sirinthorn Anthropology Center, the Thailand Research Fund and the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau.
The papers are organized into three cohesive themes addressing GMS transborder issues. The first section focuses on regional co-operation and transborder conflicts. The second section draws attention to issues of labor migration, gender, and human rights. The final section discusses transborder trades and border townships.
For more details, please visit MSSRC's website .
This research publication examined agricultural development interventions in upland areas of the subregion. Drawing on results from seven case studies, critical factors that contribute to their success have been identified and analyzed. The factors were proposed for consideration by policy makers and practitioners for implementation of pro-poor upland agricultural development policies and programs.
For more details, please visit MIDAS's website .
This research reports was conducted during 2004 to 2007 by the World Agroforestry Centre and Chiang Mai University with the support of The Rockefeller Foundation. The project has sought to build on promising innovative efforts in the region to combine livelihood approaches with modern information system technologies, in order to improve understanding of how upland households and communities have responded to and been affected by market opportunities.
For more details, please contact here or visit its website.
This workshop is a part of the project entitled "Strengthening Networks on Sexual Health for Mobile and Border Area Populations: Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China (TNM)". It aims to develop a capacity building framework for all organizations which are currently active in providing reproductive health services for mobile populations, cross border populations and migrant workers in the Mekong region.
This proceedings provided summaries of presentations by resource persons and summaries of discussion put forward by the participants.
For more details, please contact Raks Thai or visit its website.
This publication is Working Paper Series No. 8 of "Resource Politics and Cultural Transformation in the Mekong Region" which is the result of visiting scholar and non-degree research fellowship programs supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development. The programs facilitate opportunities for scholars, researchers and NGO workers in the region to broaden and deepen their conceptual understanding and analysis of relating to trans-border and cultural diversity in the context of political and economic changes in the Mekong region.
This paper focuses some of the impacts of the devolution policies on the distribution of forestland and forest resources among villagers in two Dao villages in northern Vietnam. Particularly, it examines how the Vietnamese government’s forestland allocation and forest development programs have shaped the way villagers use and manage the forest, and how benefits derived from the forest have been distributed among villagers.
For more details, please contact RCSD or visit its website.
This publication presents the contemporary state of Thai and Third World peasant studies by pointing out the problem of essentialism in peasant studies. It also provides empirical case studies of how peasants can be re-conceptualized in the context of resource conflicts and environmental movement through concepts like spatial politics, culture as capital, identity, etc.
For more details, please contact RCSD or visit its website.
This publication presents the work of fifteen young artists who graduated from the Reyum Art School in 2006. The curatorial concept of the exhibition translates the students' evolutionary and organic learning process during their transition from the structured Art School to the experimental Creative Lab. The exhibition emphasizes process, as a learning experience, rather than an end-result.
For more details, please contact Reyum Institute directly or visit its website.
This manual is published in order to provide information and raise awareness of HIV infection risks among mobile and migrant populations and communities affected by mobility in five Greater Mekong countries. This material were developed in collaboration with various stakeholders from the public and private sectors, and international organizations working with mobile and migrant populations and/or HIV and AIDS in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. In addition, mobile population and migrant workers were involved in developing the materials.
This publication highlights the work of the fifth group of journalist-fellows from Mekong countries in the annual program, which began in 2002 and continues with main financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The articles and photo essays on cross-border issues in this book range from those that explore physical connections between countries; delve into similarities between different areas; and explore relationships between countries shaped by a not-so-easy history. In addition, this publication, unlike the previous publication in the Imaging Our Mekong Series, has a section focusing on avian influenza that journalists delve into issues around the H5N1 virus, ranging from vaccination and cross-border controls to culture.
For more information, please contact IPS directly or visit its website.
This proceedings is the outcome of the "Follow up dialogue on Transborder Migration Policy Implementation and Monitoring: its Effectiveness and Current Policy Gaps in the GMS" held on 15-17 November 2007 at Khon Kaen, Thailand. It was the series of Regional Policy Formulation Program of the GMS supported by The Rockefeller Foundation to the Mekong Institute (MI).
For more information, please contact Mekong Institute directly or visit its website.
This book explores newly emerging communities and the new practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. The essay in this volume consider the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community on the Thai-Myanmar border, networks of producers and sellers in the Night Bazaar of Chiang Mai, female factory workers in Lamphun, and HIV/AIDS self-help groups of northern Thailand. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the possibilities of new communities in Thailand and provide a key reference for both students and scholars concerned with a critical approach to sociology, history, development studies, Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology.
For more information, please contact Mekong Press directly or visit its website.
This publication is the result of an innovative cross-border comparative project jointly conducted by an international team of scholars. The authors focus on a variety of Phenomena including religious conversion, the media, healing practices, rituals, hydropower projects, and tourist-oriented ethnic enclaves. A closing chapter is a theoretically informed study of the transformation of Hmong culture and identity, with insights that may well be applicable to the other groups. This is a companion volume to Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region.
For more information, please contact Mekong Press directly or visit its website.
This publication consists of revised papers originally presented at an international conference entitled the "Impact of Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism on Minority Peoples in Southeast Asia," which was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The conference was a component of the collaborative research project "Responding to Globalization: Indigenous Knowledge and Social Change among Ethnic Minorities of the Greater Mekong" carried out during 2003-2004 with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
The publication focuses on two related themes: how state policies affect indigenous groups in the region and how indigenous people respond to those pressures. The authors are a mix of senior scholars who have long conducted research in the region and emerging scholars at the beginning of their academic careers that their work presents field research conducted in various indigenous communities in northern Thailand, Xishuangbanna in China, Laos, and Vietnam. This is a companion volume to Living in a Globalized World: Ethnic Minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion
For more information, please contact Mekong Press directly or visit its website.
This publication is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through the Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program Foundation (SEASREP). This publication is a contribution to understanding the Mekong in its new setting as a subregion. It concentrates on works published since 1950 that have a geographical spread or conceptual framework that transcends national concerns. The focus is not on individual member countries as such but on their role as part of the Mekong subregion.
For more information, please contact Mekong Press directly or visit its website.
