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Evaluation, power and why we can’t just tell people to focus more on ‘learning’
I had a curious experience last week. A friend of mine had recently left from working at a multi-donor trust fund office in Yangon. I...
Who ‘heals the healers’ in Myanmar’s mental health system?
Su Zar Mon, M.Sc (Counselling pyschology) explores the influence of work factors on burnout and job satisfaction for mental health social...
The emotions of human rights work in Myanmar
Sena Galazzi from University of London’s SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) writes about the practical and emotional effects...
Development of Major Projects in Myanmar: and capturing the real value of land
Lex Rieffel from the Brookings Institute explores the Dawei SEZ project and how different views of land ownership might bring better...
Aid architecture in Myanmar. What’s the way forward? And what about civil society?
Matt Desmond reviews new ideas about the aid architecture in Myanmar and the danger of it becoming a ‘roof without walls’. A famous...
Religion and the Myanmar census - the international community handing off the 'hot potatoes'
Dr Kyaw Thu, director of Paung Ku, asks the question of why religion and ethnicity data was collected in the first place in the Myanmar...
What do Human Rights have to do with World Heritage conservation in Bagan?
Anne Laura Kraak from Deakin University shares her lessons from her ongoing research on the application of a human rights based approach...
Census data on religion and ethnicity is too sensitive. So...ummm...why was it collected in the firs
A new Myanmar Times article reveals that government officials are not willing to release the census results on religion and ethnicity...