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  • Overview on Lao-EU FLEGT VPA Process

    Presentation slides by Heiko Woerner, Chief Technical Adviser GIZ, Support to the Lao-EU FLEGT Process (ProFLEGT)

  • Civil Society Recommendations on the Future of VPAs: Making Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) Work for Forests, People and the Climate

    This briefing note is intended to contribute to the ongoing debate about future support to the European Union (EU) Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Pl...

  • U4 Expert Answer: Overview of Corruption in Burma (Myanmar)

    U4 is a web-based resource centre for development practitioners who wish to effectively address corruption challenges in their work. Expert Answers are produced by the U4 Helpde...

  • A Conflict of Interest: the Uncertain Future of Burma’s Forests

    ‘A Conflict of Interest: the Uncertain Future of Burma’s Forests’ is the first report on logging and conflict in Burma by Global Witness. Global Witness is a British-based non-g...

  • ITTO Tropical Forest Update

    A newsletter from ITTO to promote the conservation and sustainable of use tropical resources.

  • Baseline Study 4, Myanmar: Overview of Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade

    Myanmar remains one of the world’s only countries with no prohibitions on log exports. The country provides much coveted teak and other hardwood logs to the region and beyond. S...

  • The Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Lands Management Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No.10 of 2012)

    This Law, consisting of ten Chapters, regulates the following aspects related to vacant, fallow and virgin lands as follows: Name and Definitions (Chap. I); Formation, compositi...

  • Current State of the Development and Implementation of the National Code of Harvesting Practices in Myanmar

    A country paper presented by U Khin Zaw, Deputy General Manager (Planning), Myanma Timber Enterprise, Ministry of Forestry, Union of Myanmar at the International Expert Meeting ...

  • Burma Business Roundup (May 24, 2013)

    An NGO monitoring Burma’s oil, gas and mining industries said that despite international praise being heaped on the government many of its deals with companies remain “secretive...

  • Myanmar Enterprise Survey 2014: Early Findings

    The World Bank Group's Enterprise Survey in Myanmar finds that reforms of the country’s investment climate are urgent across a number of areas, especially access to finance, lan...

  • Overdue Diligence: Teak Exports from Myanmar in Breach of European Union Rules

    Following an investigation into the placement of Burmese teak from Myanmar onto the European Union (EU) market, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has submitted legal ...

  • Myanmar Timber Legality Assurance System (MTLAS) Gap Analysis Project: Final Report

    This report outlines the results of the Myanmar Timber Legality Assurance System (MTLAS) gap analysis exercise. It documents the existing MTLAS and describes some of the gaps ob...

  • Country Progress Report: Myanmar at 6th Sub-regional Workshop on Timber Legality Assurance

    This presentation is from the 6th Sub-Regional Workshop on Timber Legality Assurance. It considers forestry in Myanmar and the chain of custody for forest products, including an...

  • Framework for Assessing Legality of Forestry Operations, Timber Processing and Trade Annex: Myanmar

    This presentation provides a framework for assessing the legality of forestry operations, including a set of principles with criterion and different indicators. The timber legal...

  • Burma and Transnational Crime

    Report by the Congressional Research Service on transnational organized crime in Burma (Myanmar). Transnational crime in Burma bears upon U.S. interests as it threatens regional...

  • 28 Tax Revenue Officials Implicated in Corruption Case

    An article about implicating tax revenue officials in corruption case.

  • Timber Trade Country Profile - Myanmar

    According to the FAO (2015) Myanmar has around 29.0 million hectares of forested land, which constitutes to 44.2% of the total land area. Around 28.1 million hectares are primar...

  • Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress and Potentials

    This paper is the main output of a research project initiated by Pyoe Pin, and led by ECCDI with support from the University of East Anglia, whose aim has been to fill the gap i...

  • Community Forestry Instructions Notification No (84/2016)

    The objectives of the Community Forestry Instructions are: a. To address the basic needs of timber and non-timber products for local people; b. To create job opportunities and i...

  • Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: Country Report - Myanmar

    FAO, at the request of its member countries, regularly monitors the world´s forests and their management and uses through the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA). This coun...