SEI SUMERNET 4 All 2018-2024
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Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre (SEI Asia) has on behalf of the regional Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET) submitted a proposal to the Embassy for continued support for five years to SUMERNET’s next phase, called SUMERNET 4 All. The program will over a ten-year period focus its efforts on the strategic goal “Reducing water insecuriti...
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Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre (SEI Asia) has on behalf of the regional Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET) submitted a proposal to the Embassy for continued support for five years to SUMERNET’s next phase, called SUMERNET 4 All. The program will over a ten-year period focus its efforts on the strategic goal “Reducing water insecurities for all in particular for the poor, marginalized and socially vulnerable groups of women and men in the Mekong Region’’. For the initial five-year period, from 2018 to 2023, the amount requested from Sweden is 60 million SEK. The research program will be carried out in South East Asia/Mekong Region (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and two provinces in China) The intervention aims to contribute to sustainable development in the Mekong Region by strengthening knowledge-based policy processes and a key aspect of SUMERNET’s work is to bridge science and policy. SUMERNET achieves this by choosing research questions that are directly relevant to current policy debates, engaging decision-makers in all aspects of their activities, and building capacity for sustainable development through mentoring support, workshops and other activities. SUMERNET 4 All will focus its effort on three specific research themes including (1) water access, rights & allocation in times of scarcity, (2) governance and management of flood disaster risks and (3) transboundary interactions with water systems. SUMERNET also emphasises collaboration, networking and knowledge-sharing, connecting partners in different countries through projects and events thereby aiming at continually strengthening research and policy engagement across the region. The intervention’s total budget is 60 million SEK out of wich approximately 28 MSEK will be used for research activities, approximately 15 MSEK to multistakeholder activities and approximately 6 MESK will be used for communications and outreach.
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As of the end of 2023, SUMERNET has awarded 39 grants consisting of 10 Collaborative Research projects, 1 Groundwater Integrated Regional Assessment (GIRA) project, 6 Joint Action projects, 1 Emerging (COVID-19) Research and 5 Rapid Response Research projects, 9 Small grants, and 7 Fellowship grants. Seventeen of these grants are multi-country research projects, thereby exceeding the original target of 12 projects. Through these grants, SUMERNET is supporting 230 researchers (129 men and 101 women), of which 84 are young and early career researchers (46 men and 38 women). A joint action project on flood risk management in the Stung Sen River basin of Cambodia (FloodCam) led to recommendations that provincial authorities agreed to use in the development of the provincial disaster management plan. Another joint action project on inclusive community flood risk management in Ban Phai Municipality, Thailand has led to a 1,5 billion THB investment by the Government in Thailand on flood prevention and management in the Ban Phai municipality. A regional groundwater project (GIRA) led to Cambodia's Department of Water Supply and Sanitation using the results to propose a project together with SEI/SUMERNET that will improve groundwater management in Cambodia. SUMERNET attracted further funding to SEI during 2023. The Government of Australia (DFAT) funded the Mekong Thought Leaderships and Think Tank Network program. The program is managed under the umbrella of SUMERNET. SEI and SUMERNET are participating in a Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Project on Building Water Sector Youth Leadership Network in Lancang-Mekong Region (WSYLN Project). In partnership with the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR), Thailand, SEI won funding from LMC to initiate a regional Water Sector Youth Leadership Network (WSYLN). This work will complement/strengthen the SUMERNET Young Professional Network (SYP) and potentially expand SUMERNET memberships and outreach to young professionals working in the water sector from 6 countries, particularly from China SUMERNET Young Professional Network (SYP) facilitating LMCs 1st Regional Consultation Workshop, Building Water Sector Youth Leadership Network in the Lancang-Mekong Region Project, in Chiang Rai, October 2023. The SYP core team has the opportunity to engage and network with other young professionals from the Mekong and build their capacity for planning and organizing regional events. During 2023 there were 66 scientific papers accepted fro review by scientific journals. 58 of these were or international journals. More information is available on page 48 of the annex to the narrative report.
SUMERNET 4 All will improve the policies and practices in reducing water insecurity by conducting collaborative research, engaging in the policy process, and promoting scientifically sound research and innovation while considering gender and social equality, human rights, conflict sensitivity, environmental integrity and poverty reduction in the Mekong Region.
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