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Myanmar Oil & Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment Report

The SWIA, developed by MCRB, is intended to support responsible business practices in this growing sector of Myanmar’s economy.
The SWIA, developed by MCRB, is intended to support responsible business practices in this growing sector of Myanmar’s economy.

MCRB, IHRB and DIHR publish Sector Wide Impact Assessment of Myanmar's Oil & Gas Sector – Sept. 2014

The Oil & Gas Sector-Wide Impact Assessment (SWIA), developed by the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) in partnership with its co-founders, the Institute of Human Rights and Business and the Danish Institute of Human Rights, is intended to support responsible business practices in this growing sector of Myanmar’s economy.

Myanmar Oil and Gas SWIA: Complete Report (234 pages/6.4mb)
Document PDF, 11097 downloads, စက်တင်ဘာ 04, 2014

The Myanmar Oil & Gas SWIA puts detailed information on potential impacts of the sector into the public domain for uptake and use by a wide range of audiences.  It assesses not only localised impacts on individuals and groups that may arise from projects in the sector, but also cumulative impacts and the sector’s potential impacts on Myanmar society as a whole.

Myanmar Oil and Gas SWIA (MY)
Document PDF, 3189 downloads, စက်တင်ဘာ 04, 2015

This is important because:

  • Myanmar is currently facing a rapid increase in investment in its oil and gas (O&G) sector with the award of 16 onshore and 20 offshore blocks in the space of 12 months in 2013-2014

  • Even though the country is emerging from decades of ethnic conflict, authoritarian rule and economic isolation it is, and will remain for some time, a high-risk country with poor governance. An understanding of the potential impacts of the sector is necessary to improve the outcomes for Myanmar and its people.

  • Responsible business conduct in the Oil & Gas sector in Myanmar therefore requires enhanced due diligence to determine what impacts business activities may have on society, including on human rights.  This must include robust approaches to managing those impacts. The Oil & Gas SWIA is intended to be a resource for these efforts.

The recommendations in the SWIA are directed towards government, businesses (and investors in those business), civil society and development partners for Myanmar, and are intended to support wider multistakeholder collaboration.

 

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ဆဋ္ဌမ ကြိမ်မြောက် (အကြာသေးမီ) မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ တွင်းထွက်သယံဇာတအရင်းအမြစ် တူးဖော်ထုတ်လုပ်ရေး လုပ်ငန်းများ ပွင့်လင်းမြင်သာမှုဖော်ဆောင်ရေး (MEITI) ၏ အစီရင်ခံစာမှ အချက်အလက်များကို အသုံးပြု၍ ၂၀၁၈-ခုနှစ် ရေနံနှင့် သဘာဝဓာတ်ငွေ့ လိုင်စင်များ၏ တည်နေရာပြ မြေပုံ (geospatial map) ကို www.meiti-map.org တွင် ကြည့်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။

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