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As Myanmar responds to the COVID-19 crisis, understanding the government budget becomes even more important. Whether we realize it or not, government budgets have a huge impact on everyday lives. The availability of roads, schools, medical facilities, and delivery of community services such as garbage collection and ensuring street lighting, all de… Read more

The independent Impacts and Recovery Monitoring Project is a longitudinal mixed-methods study developed to systematically monitor patterns of recovery and evolving needs, to track whether disaster responses were effective and accountable. The first round of research took place in June 2015, with three subsequent rounds until April 2017, and another… Read more

Embracing new ways to convene, on April 15 we honored women’s empowerment impacts across Asia. The program featured honorees Ziauddin Yousafzai, co-founder of the Malala Fund; Mastercard for its commitment to women’s economic empowerment and financial security with CEO Ajay Banga accepting on its behalf; and The Gender Lab in India. Covid-19 dispro… Read more

On April 14, 2020, The Asia Foundation hosted the webinar Making Transportation Services Work for Women: Mobility, Safety, Employment, and Leadership, focusing on the growing concerns and issues within and around the transportation sector, including the need to consider the increased mobility challenges and risk of violence against women and girls… Read more

During times of social distancing and uncertainty, art can be curative and connecting. On April 3, a private collection of legendary 20th century photographs by such luminaries as Ansel Adams, Margrethe Mather, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, and Edward Weston will be auctioned at Sotheby’s New York to benefit The Asia Foundation. Works in the c… Read more

The 2018-2019 Luce Scholars arrived in Asia at the end of June 2019 for two months of intensive language classes and then began professional placements with host institutions in Asia from early September 2019 through June 20, 2020. The 18 Scholars were chosen from a competitive pool of nominations by 70 colleges and universities across the United S… Read more

The longest-running barometer of Afghan opinion, the Survey of the Afghan People presents a clear picture of the gains and gaps that Afghans perceive in a rapidly transforming nation. The Survey, now on its fifteenth edition, has gathered the views of more than 129,000 Afghans since 2004 on security, reconciliation with the Taliban, migration, the… Read more

Khatri was working as a migrant labor in the Gulf when the 2015 Gorkha earthquake destroyed his settlement, and a subsequent landslide made the village uninhabitable. His only daughter was killed by the landslide. He and more than 30 other households had to be resettled. They have completed rebuilding their houses in the new settlement, but their r… Read more

Damai is a single, landless Dalit woman who was living on public forest land when the earthquake destroyed her house. She lived alone in a temporary shelter until the end of 2019 when she finally received government financial assistance to buy a plot of land and started rebuilding. This interview was filmed in November 2019 for the Independent Impa… Read more

Tamang is a single woman whose house and cowshed were destroyed by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Her house was assessed but her name did not appear in the beneficiary list for a government housing reconstruction grant. She has filed multiple grievances but is yet to be enlisted as a beneficiary. She still lives in the damaged house as well a… Read more