The adoption of sustainable development goals and climate change protocols by the United Nations this year will be milestones for the international community, President U Thein Sein said Friday, in a speech to mark World Environmental Conservation Day. In his speech at Myanmar International Convention Centre (2), the president said the UN General Assembly is ...

Naypyitaw, 23 April 2015 – Participants at a workshop recently held in Naypyitaw agreed upon the initial vision for a “climate resilient, low-carbon, resource efficient development, as contribution to sustainable development of Myanmar”. The 1st Workshop for the Formulation of the Myanmar National Climate Change Strategy, Action Plan and Policy had participants from all relevant ministries ...

Naw Pyi Taw, 19 March 2015  The Government of Japan, and four UN agencies,namely  UN-Habitat, UNHCR, WFP and UNICEF signed and exchanged notes  at a ceremony today in Naw Pyi Taw in the presence of Myanmar’s Deputy Minister for Border Affairs H.E Major General Tin Aung Chit, and Deputy Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural ...

UN-Habitat with the funding partnership of Livelihood and Food Trust Fund supports the Land Records Department of Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation to improve the land administration and management system in the country. The Land Administration and Management Program (LAMP) is to introduce new systems and processes to land registration and management of land records, new ...

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 ...

The President of Myanmar His Excellency U Thein Sein addressed the opening of the National Workshop on Urban and Housing Policy and Planning organized by the Government of Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The National level event was held at the Myanmar International Convention Center in its capital Nay Pyi Taw on 21 November ...

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today at Amara Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw by the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) to formalize their collaboration in the field of environment and climate change in Myanmar. Increasing temperatures resulting in ...

 Yangon 19 June 2014 – UN-Habitat and the government of Myanmar this week signed an agreement that will see the agency help in strengthening land administration and management system in that country. The Settlement and Land Records Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and UN-Habitat signed the milestone Letter of Agreement on the ...