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Mekong Citizen is a multimedia platform for the citizens of the Greater Mekong to share their stories.
This video of “Training for Change” provides an outline of how water governance facilitation training can provide civil society staff and organizations with an enhanced understanding and capacity to identify and develop new, innovative and more effective strategies for advocacy and engagement in policy dialogues and debates on hydro-power governance and water governance.
Forty years ago when Sorn was just a small child, she could see and even smell many fish when she stood next to the river in her village of Don Sahong. She said at once she joined her friends swim in the river and they were able to catch and touch big fish. “So many fish swimming together with us!” said Sorn, a 50-year old mother of two children and a head of lao’s women union in don Sahong village, Khong district of Champasak province.
The Srepok river has a total length of 425 Km running from Dak Lak Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam into Cambodia through Ratanakiri province and joins the Mekong river. Around 2.27 million people (128,074 in Cambodia and 2,139,470 in Vietnam) depend on the water resources in the Srepok River Basin for their livelihoods.
There are many stories about the Salween River. Myths from long ago. The hopes and tragedies of the recent past. The present day stories of a diversity of local lives and cultures. Dreams for a better future - some shared and some dissimiliar.
Promoting gender justice in regional and transboundary water governance policy and practices in the Mekong region
Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA) trained youth in Kbal Romeas on how to report the story from their villages by using their smartphone, June 2017.
“I am 47 years old now. I’ve spent 46 years living by and growing with the River. Since I relocated here last year… I miss my old village… I miss the River… I used to always row the boat along the river…”
The video will show how the positive vs. negative on 11 dams at the Lower Mekong Basin, presented by Apisom Intralawan.
Rivers are essential in sustaining human existence globally, and yet, everywhere, freshwater systems are being destroyed and degraded. With climate change and increasing water scarcity, it is more important than ever to protect these vital resources and the biodiversity, natural systems and way of life they support.
