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9:30 am ET: Registration10:00 am–11:00 am ET: Discussion Christie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY From 2018 to 2019, 2,500 boys from 61 schools in Mumbai, Indore, and Delhi, India, took a journey to redefine masculinity and stand up to gender-based violence. The Gender Lab Boys Program is the brainchild of cofounders Akshat Singhal a… Read more

TIME magazine profiles landscape architect and 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom in their “2050: The Fight For Earth” issue as one of 15 women leading the fight against climate change. As a child, Kotchakorn Voraakhom liked to pry apart cracked pavement to let seedlings burst through Bangkok’s sprawl. Now, the landscape a… Read more

Oxfam blog From Poverty to Power features program director Jaime Faustino in an audio interview with Oxfam’s Duncan Green on the Foundation’s Coalitions for Change (CfC) program. The interview was followed by an article comparing CfC with other adaptive management programs in Tanzania, Nigeria, and Myanmar. 

Beh Lih Yi of Thomson Reuters Foundation profiles the Let’s Read “Mighty Girls” collection of books that feature dynamic female characters in “Indonesian storytellers spread ‘mighty girls’ message to fight male dominance.” “It will open their eyes to all the possibilities they can have as girls,” said The Asia Foundation’s Morga… Read more

The Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter features our head of Community Policing Support Program in Timor Leste Robin Perry’s opinion piece highlighting key findings from the 2019 Community-Police Perceptions Survey. Coming just a few days after the last of the dignitaries departed Dili, the launch of The Asia Foundation’s (TAF) Community-Police Percep… Read more

Securing borders is a key challenge for the Afghan State. Border security is inseparable from the larger war effort, as insurgents take advantage of porous borders to seek refuge in neighboring countries. Cross-border trade is also vital to the Afghan economy. Customs duties are the most important single source of government revenue, yet considerab… Read more

The Asia Foundation renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in Nay Pyi Taw on September 2, 2019, to support the country’s democratic transition and efforts to address its development challenges. Permanent Secretary and Director-General at the Political Department of the Ministry of For… Read more

The Asia Foundation, Myanmar’s Ministry of Information, the Myanmar Library Association, and local children’s book publisher Third Story Project came together today to announce the launch of Let’s Read in Myanmar. Let’s Read is the Foundation’s collaborative approach to overcoming children’s book scarcity in Asia. Already present in nine countries… Read more

Foreign Policy features data from our 2018 Survey of the Afghan People in an analysis on the future of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

East Asia Forum features an article written by Myanmar Country Representative Matthew Arnold on the state’s reforms of the General Administration Department. With its ubiquitous presence, expansive mandate and long history within the military-led Ministry of Home Affairs, the General Administration Department (GAD) has been Myanmar’s paramount gove… Read more