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ACTIVITIES IN Myanmar
The Mekong Water and Sanitation Initiative
The Mekong River Basin is the catchments’ area of the Mekong River and its tributaries in six countries.
Location:Greater Mekong subregion and Mekong River
Branch:
Partner: Governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and the People's Republic of China
Donor: Asian Development Bank
Theme:
- Water Sanitation and Infrastructure
Cost:
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Myanmar NEWS

A new UN-Habitat City Resilience Profiling Programme
Nairobi - 15/11/2012

UN-Habitat announced on Thursday that it is seeking city partners to pilot a new integrated urban planning and management model to help cities build reslience against disasters such as the recent superstorm Sandy which crashed through coastlines from the Caribbean and north America's Atlantic seaboard, or tsunamis and earthquakes.

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STATISTICAL OVERVIEW
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Urbanisation
  Total Population: 48m
  Urban population: 28%
  Slum to urban population: 26%
  Annual population growth rates:
  Urban: 3%
  Slum: 1%
(2001 estimates)
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Slum Indicators
% urban population with access to:
  Safe Water Source: 88%
  Improved sanitation: 83%
 
 
(2001 estimates)

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