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Co-organized by PanNature, Fishery Coalition Action Team (FACT, Cambodia) and Project SEVANA Southeast Asia, the\u00a0workshop \u201cHydropower dams: Role and responsibility of governments, investors and regional platform in ASEAN\u201d\u00a0featured the need to recognize the importance of human security and livelihoods of dam-affected communities. The man-made dam break disaster in\u00a0Xe Pian-Xe Nam Noy Project in Laos recently has triggered the call for more transparency and responsibilities from the government and investors in safeguarding human life and reviewing mega dam projects.<\/p>\n
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In the second workshop \u201cASEAN and the Non-traditional Security Challenges in a New World Order and Changing Environment\u201d, co-organized by PanNature and the Our River Our Life Campaign, highlighted problems, challenges and recommendations for ASEAN on the needs to address non-traditional security matters resulted from unsustainable development in ASEAN rivers, especially Mekong and Salween Rivers.<\/p>\n
From two co-organized workshops, PanNature and regional partners came up with key recommendations to ASEAN leaders, including: 1\/Create mechanisms at the regional level for the local communities to protect their benefits and rights on resources. 2\/To create a regional process for reviewing mega dam development plans and overseeing cross-border issues and impacts causing by hydropower dams.\u00a0\u00a03\/ASEAN governments should strengthen information sharing and cooperation with CSOs\u00a0to solve problems on environment in ASEAN countries; review, adopt and implement recommendations from the recent regional cooperation such as MRC Council Study,\u00a0ASEAN Declaration on post-2015 environmental sustainability and climate change agenda, and ASEAN Cooperation on Environment etc.; and 4\/ASEAN should encourage member states to complete their national legal system related to\u00a0environmental protection, human rights, peace and security, integrated with local contexts and in accordance with international community\u2019s expectation and goals by enforcing Sustainable Development Goals 12, 13, and 15 and Paris Agreement; addressing\u00a0mainstream hydropower dams in\u00a0Mekong, Salween and ASEAN rivers,\u00a0and environmental issues as non-traditional security issue challenges and integrate them within the framework of Peace and Security Pillar.<\/p>\n
Recommendations from the workshop were integrated in the Forum’s Statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n