The Regional Working Group on Gender (RWGG) was created during the 1999 Regional Partners’ Meeting held in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The RWGG is then mandated to spearhead the following: ■ Increase gender awareness among tdh Germany partners in SEA ■ Find ways to mainstream gender in tdh Germany-supported projects and partner networks ■ Monitor developments […]
Preamble The strategic goals of terre des hommes international programme activities have been devised in a two-year dialogue process between terre des hommes members and staff, its project partners and the terre des hommes international youth network. The strategic goals were adopted by the Delegates Conference (DC) of 4 to 6 October2013 in Bad Honnef, […]
Background The Regional Working Group on Children’s Rights Convention functions as a loose network of child rights oriented non-government organizations in Southeast Asia. Its members, most of whom are partners of Tdh-Germany, are based in Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Lao PDR, and Thailand. At present, seven (7) Focal Point Persons from 7 countries provide […]
Background During the second regional partners meeting of Terre des Hommes Germany held in Southeast Asia on April 26th-28th,1999 in Siem Reap, Cambodia, it was decided that a working group on Biodiversity be established. Since that time Terre es Hommes has supported many projects and activities regarding Biodiversity in in Southeast Asia. At the first […]
1. Brief background Under the joint capacity building programme of terre des hommes Germany and terre des hommes Netherlands, a regional training on “Conflict Transformation and Peace Building” among project partners and staff in Southeast Asia was held in June 2004 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In 2005, during the Regional Partners’ Meeting of project partners […]
Lying on the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula, the S-shaped Vietnam stretches 1,650 km from north to south. Its widest space from east to west is 600km in the north and narrowest of 50km in the central. Vietnam is a transport junction from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The Vietnamese gained independence […]
Thailand is a country of mountains, tropical rainforests and flat plains. For many years agriculture was the main employer. But from the 1980s a thriving, rapidly-growing economy attracted large numbers of Thais to the expanding industrial and services sectors. Bangkok expanded rapidly with the influx of workers during the boom years. It is one of […]
The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands divided into 3 major regions: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The bulk of its population, however, lives on just 11 of these scattered islands. Sixty-five percent of the population lives in urban centers. Children comprise nearly half of its population. It is the 12th most populous […]
A largely rural, densely forested country, Myanmar is the world’s largest exporter of teak and is a principal source of jade, pearls, rubies and sapphires. It is endowed with extremely fertile soil and has important offshore oil and gas deposits. However, its people remain very poor and are getting poorer. (Source: www.bbc.co.uk). The country is […]
Laos is one of East Asia’s poorest countries. Since 1991, it has struggled to find its position within a changing political and economic landscape. Laos is a landlocked, mountainous country, widely covered by largely unspoilt tropical forest. Less than 5% of the land is suitable for subsistence agriculture, which nevertheless provides around 80% of employment. […]
