UN-Habiat in partnership with Ministry of Construction-Training School, Thuwanna, Yangon and in collaboration with Myanmar Engineering Society has been promoting safer construction trainings through certification since 2013, with the support of Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Norway, USAID, ECHO and DFID. During 2013, has trained around 155 participants (including 28 women) from Ayeyarwaddy, Rakhine and Thaninthyiri Region with the ...

 [Nyaung Shwe-7th July 2015] Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF), the Norwegian Government through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Myanmar and the partner UN agencies are organizing a consultation workshop on 7th July 2015 in Hupin Inle Khaung Daing Village Resort, Inle Lake, Nyaung Shwe to inform the Long-term and 5 Year Action Plan ...

Yangon, 16 June 2015 – UN Habitat Myanmar partners with the international engineering firm Arcadis, under the Arcadis Shelter Programme. A team of seven visiting Arcadis experts joined UN Habitat Head Office staff on a two-week mission to deliver urban planning training and undertake socioeconomic analysis of some major Myanmar cities. The four-man urban planning team, ...

Earthquake experts met in Yangon to draw up plans to limit the damage that a seismic event could inflict on the city and its inhabitants. The Yangon city seismic hazard assessment project, which aims to develop a sustainable city plan, was launched on February 19. The immediate result of the project will be a hazard ...