05
2015
MIID signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF) in Napyidaw on June 5, 2015. The MoU was signed by Dr. Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Director General of the Forest Department, MOECAF, and Mr. Joern Kristensen, MIID Executive Director.
The agreement lays the foundation for MIID’s ongoing programming on environmental conservation, natural resource management, livelihoods promotion and participatory rural development. MIID’s current environmental projects, implemented in collaboration with MOECAF, include the Myanmar Healthy Rivers Initiative for the Ayeyarwaddy and Thanlwin rivers, which is soon to launch.
This is the second ministry with which MIID has formalized relations. This first was with the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism.