MainDB: Lower Mekong region river impoundments data set

Title: Lower Mekong region river impoundments data set
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NWPGeographicRegion: Asia
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Good practices and lessons learned: Recommendations for institutions and projects working to improve the application of geospatial data and technologies for decision making in the LMR (SERVIR-Mekong, 2015: pp. vi-vii): 1. Promote and support the development of a community of practice around the use of geospatial data for decision making. 2. Create web-based resources and support events that bring practitioners together to share experiences and information, coordinate and collaborate on strategies and tools, as well as to build capacity for effectively and efficiently addressing priority needs. 3. Work with decision makers, technical staff, and other stakeholders to develop customized, context-specific decision-support tools that will be used to enhance priority management, planning, and policy development processes. 4. Promote the integration of geospatial considerations across sectors to address issues of contradictory plans, policies and decisions. 5. Develop a guidance note on for GIS developers and application users on how to integrate gender concerns, and point to types and sources of gender-related data that can be used in various GIS tools. 6. Support existing initiatives to clarify, inventory, and harmonize geospatial data resources in all LMR countries, especially in Cambodia, the Lao PDR and Myanmar. 7. Support the further development of a regional network of universities conducting geospatial-related research and capacity building, and support their efforts to more effectively understand and link their work with government agencies. 8. Create and enhance online portals and other data-sharing mechanisms that make it easier for practitioners to access and use satellite-derived data for monitoring and forecasting. 9. Promote international metadata standards and tools that facilitate the efficient authoring and stewardship of metadata. 10. Document the value of open data policies, and showcase examples of how such policies can enhance outcomes and save resources in the region. 11. Work with stakeholders to design, build and maintain decision-support tools related to the region’s top geospatial application priorities. 12. Using similar methods as those used in this assessment, reassess regional geospatial data and technology needs at two- or three-year intervals so that changing priorities can be identified, and effectively and efficiently addressed.
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Date of submission: 01/08/2015
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Adaptation element: Capacity building; Climate observations; Communication and outreach/awareness; Institutional arrangements; Science and research; Socio-economic data and information; Stakeholder involvement; Technology support
Adaptation sector/theme: Water resources; Ecosystems; Health; Human settlements
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Country: Cambodia; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Thailand; Viet Nam
NWPDataSource: Partner
Description: Provides the extent of inundation resulting from all dams currently existing, under construction and planned. This dataset can be used for evaluating adaptation strategies and infrastructure development alternatives, especially in areas where livelihoods are dependent on fisheries and/or agricultural systems that depend on the existing water allocation infrastructure.
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Further information: Cover image of reports, photo of consultation workshop, model results
NWPGeographicScope: Subregional
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NWPPartner: SERVIR-Mekong (regional hub); SERVIR-Global (global headquarters)
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Target group: Practitioners
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NWPReferences: https://servir.adpc.net/publications/needs-assessment-geospatial-data-and-technologies-lower-mekong-region
Implementing partners: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center; Spatial Informatics Group
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