Leigh Mitchell

#Myanmar's pre-coup (2009-2020) public water spending varied significantly (2009-20), per #WorldBank figures. This pre-coup spending capacity, even with its limitations, contrasts starkly with current econ contraction, strained public finances, and aid freeze.

fwsf.wbwaterdata.org/component2/s...

For unclear reasons, the #Myanmar Information Management Unit (#MIMU) has discontinued several previously maintained datasets across HDX Data Grid sub-categories - possible casualty of mounting funding pressures in the humanitarian data ecosystem?

data.humdata.org/dataset/2048...

In reality, China and India import most of their shoes from Vietnam and Indonesia and some high-end stuff from Italy.

Both countries also have major domestic footwear industries.

Myanmar is a negligible exporter and actually imports cheap shoes from China.

According to MAH, half the people in #China and #India are barefoot — and #Myanmar could be their shoe supplier.

Bold vision from a country under sanctions and rolling blackouts.

China and India (top global footwear consumers) may be surprised to hear this.

Source: eng.mizzima.com/2025/03/23/2...

The World Prison Brief, a database run by Birkbeck’s Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, now links to the NUG’s Ministry of Justice = important validation. Yet, the vast majority of prisoners, inc. political detainees, remain detained by the SAC.

www.prisonstudies.org/country/myan...

Myanmar's humanitarian crisis is critically underfunded. Only 4.6% of the $1.14 billion needed has been secured, leaving millions in urgent need without life-saving aid.

Source: fts.unocha.org/plans/1275/c...

An interesting chart from Shekhar Banerjee of the Neutrino Center suggests #Myanmar’s academic research output remains stagnant compared to regional peers like #Pakistan, #Nigeria & #Bangladesh.

Source:
x.com/ShekharCente...

Export from the US to Myanmar: 0.1 billion US$
Import from Myanmar to the US: 0.7 billion US$
Balance for #Myanmar: 0.6 billion US$ in 2024

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Seychelles - Aid Management Information System (AIMS) Project – Project Completion Report

Anyone have a link to the #Seychelles Development Assistance Database #DAD? This #AdDB Project Completion Report notes the system is live and has improved "transparency & effective management of development efforts".

But it doesn't seem to be public.

#AidTransparency

www.afdb.org/en/documents...

📊 Happy International #OpenDataDay!

We’re celebrating the power of open data to drive #aidtransparency, accountability & better decision-making

IATI’s #opendata standard helps governments, donors & civil society track development resources & results🧵👇

A regime that jails journalists, censors the press, & thrives on propaganda is now getting PR tips from a media consultant named Vincent Cyril Demitrius Pereira.

Source 1: eng.mizzima.com/2025/03/01/1...

Source 2: www.linkedin.com/in/cyril-per...

#Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #PressFreedom

A regime that jails journalists, censors the press, & thrives on propaganda is now getting PR tips from a media consultant named Vincent Cyril Demitrius Pereira.

Source 1: eng.mizzima.com/2025/03/01/1...

Source 2: www.linkedin.com/in/cyril-per...

#Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #PressFreedom

South Korea approves $4.9m in grants for financial resilience in #EastAsia, including #Myanmar. Funds intended to support "governments and financial institutions". Given the junta essentially controls the banking system, who will actually benefit from this support?

mailchi.mp/worldbank/sc...

This chart shows how #India’s arms exports to #Myanmar surged throughout 2021-2023 while manufacturing exports struggled.

Source: www.orfonline.org/research/fac...

Burma Coup Resistance Notes | စီၤထံဆၢ | Substack Tracking Burma's Spring Revolution from February 2021 until it wins. Click to read Burma Coup Resistance Notes, by စီၤထံဆၢ, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

In Myanmar if you want justice you don’t go to the regime-controlled courts, you join the resistance forces and fight the regime.

The #Myanmar junta has 3x court fees for civil litigation = blatant cash grab to offset inflation they caused.

Makes access to "justice" even less affordable + hits the vulnerable hardest.

High costs encourage informal resolution = ripe for corruption & exploitation.

www.dfdl.com/insights/leg...

YouTube video by Prophet Elvis Mbonye Prophecy: USAID Fund Cuts And More!!!

Interestingly, Ugandan 'Prophet' Elvis Mbonye claimed to have foreseen #USAID's withdrawal five years, one month, and one week in advance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIf...

Mine attack disrupts train schedules on Yangon-Mandalay railway between Kyauktaga and Painzalok The Yangon-Mandalay Railway section between Kyauktaga and Painzalok stations was detonated on the night of February 25, bringing the total number of detonations of railway bridges and tracks in the pa...

And the very next day...

elevenmyanmar.com/news/mine-at...

IATI 2030, Transforming data, transforming lives by Jonathan Glennie, February 2025 This “vision paper” is written as if it were already 2030 and the IATI community is looking back on a five-year journey to success. It is intended to suggest a direc...

Join the conversation about how #IATI can stay relevant & useful and its future as a data platform!

Find the forum and background paper here:
www.iaticonnect.org/topic/iati-2...

#AidTransparency #DataForDevelopment #OpenData #DevelopmentFinance #GlobalDevelopment #AidEffectiveness #2030Agenda

When aid gets political: How to navigate Myanmar’s worsening polycrisis Recent reporting from The New Humanitarian highlights how donor neglect (including the recent US aid freeze) has only compounded these challenges, leaving communities increasingly fractured and the co...

Join @newhumanitarian.bsky.social for an important discussion on #Myanmar's worsening polycrisis and the political challenges of aid - of particular interest to those working in humanitarian response and policy.

28 Feb 2024

Register here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/events/when-...

Routes linking Yangon and Mandalay hit by mine attacks One attack destroyed a bridge on the old Yangon-Mandalay highway, while another caused a train to derail in the same area in Bago Region

New trains might be an upgrade to the #Yangon - #NayPyiTaw - #Mandalay route, but mine attacks on rail & road infrastructure suggest the line is both a transit corridor & a contested space of strategic significance

Source 1: www.gnlm.com.mm/modern-demu-...

Source 2: myanmar-now.org/en/news/rout...

UK aid is being cut by 40%, but if in-country refugee spending (£4.3bn in 2023) is reduced, the actual cut to UK international assistance could be much smaller.

If £3bn of cuts come from domestic refugee costs, overseas aid may drop by ~21% instead of 40%.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Vital services and protections for everyday Americans are being gutted thanks to DOGE.

And this is happening in exchange for renewing one of the biggest tax cuts in American history that will predominantly benefit people like...you guessed it...Elon Musk.

See the problem here?

Training Need to know more about aid and development projects and their impact? Interested in who is spending what, where, how and why? This free one-hour training session explains how to find and explore data...

For those interested in #aidtransparency, @iatistandard.org is offering a free one-hour training on how to use international aid and development data.

More info here:

www.publishwhatyoufund.org/training/

Why US foreign assistance data must stay public: The case for aid transparency Aid transparency is the law. The 2016 Foreign Aid Accountability Act and 2018 Evidence-Based Policymaking Act mandate public access to U.S. foreign assistance data. The removal of key USAID data sets ...

All #USAID document links on the #IATI dataset are now broken—leaving zero USAID documents available.

Sanctions as a form of War & economic dominance When it comes to sanctions, the most punished countries are Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba nations that challenge Western dominance or refuse to align with its agenda or become victims of it. Sanctions are a weapon wielded by Western powers, not because of human rights violations (a laughable pretense) but because they CAN & because these nations dare to resist Western imperialism. The global economic system, built on centuries of Western colonial and imperial violence and maintained by Western-led institutions like the IMF and World Bank, ensures that the US and its assets have the financial clout to impose these crippling measures. Meanwhile, alleged “enemies” of the West lack the global reach or resources to even attempt comparable acts of economic warfare. Or do you all think you get to have food, water, medical supplies cause you are all such great people in the West – deserving of access to things unlike the global majority? Billionaires and Oligarchs The West never tires of decrying “Russian oligarchs” while conveniently ignoring the fact that the U.S. is home to more billionaires than any other country on Earth—by far. The U.S.’s billionaires are not only wealthier but are deeply entrenched in the political system, influencing legislation, elections, and public policy. China and Russia combined do not match the wealth or power of America’s billionaire class. Yet, the term “oligarch” is conspicuously absent when discussing figures like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or the Walton family, whose wealth is built on the exploitation of labor and resources globally.

A bar chart titled "The World’s Most-Sanctioned Countries" displays the number of active sanctions by target country, with data current as of December 15, 2023, sourced from Castellum.AI. The chart features two categories of sanctions: those implemented before February 2022 (in light pink) and those added after February 2022 (in dark red). Russia is the most sanctioned country, with 18,772 total sanctions, followed by Iran with 4,953, Syria with 2,811, North Korea with 2,171, Belarus with 1,454, Myanmar with 988, and Venezuela with 747. A large red "X" icon is displayed next to the chart. The chart is attributed to Statista.

P2) / Sanctions as a form of War & economic dominance.

/ Billionaires and "oligarchs".

#politics #news #education #history #educational

Chart showing the 10 countries where public confidence in the judiciary has decreased the most in recent years, based on international surveys conducted by Gallup.

Gallup finds a 24-point decline in Americans' confidence in their judiciary since 2020 – among the largest such decreases worldwide. Other countries where confidence in the courts has plummeted include Myanmar, Venezuela, Croatia, South Africa and Syria. news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...

Pie chart of The border consortiums budget. showing that USA PRM - IRC is 53% of their budget.

An example of the dependencies of groups working on the Thai Myanmar border on USaid here is the breakdown of income for the www.theborderconsortium.org/ who work in the area. 53% of their overall budget is US via the IRC.

not that we can fill that gap but:
www.theborderconsortium.org/donate/

A data visualization titled "Nine Asian countries where child mortality has halved since 2000." The chart shows the estimated percentage of newborns dying before age five in nine countries: Afghanistan (13% in 2000 to 6% in 2022), Cambodia (11% to 2%), Laos (11% to 4%), Bangladesh (9% to 3%), Myanmar (9% to 4%), India (9% to 3%), Nepal (8% to 3%), Indonesia (5% to 2%), and China (4% to 1%). Each country is represented by a line graph showing a significant decline in child mortality over time. Data source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (2024), CC BY.

In these nine Asian countries, child mortality has more than halved since the year 2000

‘No evidence of USAid to Boko Haram’ – US envoy assures Nigeria | Pulse Nigeria The United States government has strongly denied allegations that funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are being channelled to Boko Haram or any terrorist group.

A curious representation of #USAID's dismantling from #Nigeria.

"Mills also addressed concerns about possible cuts to US aid, clarifying that the current administration is conducting a 90-day review to enhance #aideffectiveness, not withdraw support."

www.pulse.ng/articles/new...