GMS Indicators Updated
The 38 key indicators on the GMS Core Environment Program's Information Portal have now been updated with the latest available data from government sources.
Each indicator includes Yunnan and Guangxi statistics, making them a unique data set covering the entire GMS. Access the indicators here.
Publish Date: 29th November 2016
See also
Assessing Environmental Performance in the GMS
From 2007 to 2011, the CEP worked with the six GMS countries to strengthen their monitoring capacity and produce a second round of environmental performance assessment (EPA) reports.
Village Development Funds in the GMS
In Guangxi, near the border with Viet Nam, a concrete slab was laid in a small village to give its children somewhere to play basketball. A long way to the east, a Dai ethnic man in southern Yunnan Province was able to buy 500 chickens to start a new livelihood. Down south to the Tenasserim Mountains in western Thailand, local people gathered on a royal holiday to plant trees to help restore a damaged forest. These are just a few examples of how people are using village development funds (VDFs)—revolving funds that provide low interest loans to local people in some of the poorest areas of the GMS—to improve livelihoods.