A UNDP Regional Office Project
The Myanmar Development Observatory
With the increase in poverty due to the COVID pandemic and events since February 2021, the need for relevant, timely and accessible information is critical for humanitarian, development and peace-related interventions countrywide. Hence, the development challenge is to address the data deficit in Myanmar, provide access to data, analytics and insights in order to support the cooperation partners and civil society organisations to make the right evidence-based decisions.
To address the development challenge of data deficit, quality, accessibility and useability, the Myanmar Development Observatory (MDO) was established.
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UNDP set up the Myanmar Development Observatory as a new critical capability in country to collect and analyse data, with the aim to understand the impact of ongoing rapid social, economic and political changes on people and communities, and better support resilience and recovery decision-making.
It focuses on monitoring, assessments and analysis of the evolving social, economic and political dynamics in the country with the aim of:
- Mapping vulnerability, to increase understanding of the dimensions of poverty and vulnerability in Myanmar, and
- Enhance resilience, to inform programme design of UN agencies, international community and civil society, including recovery and resilience-based programming.
MDO's Pillar
It does so through three mutually reinforcing outputs of data collection & analysis, dissemination and capacity building with a focus on three connected pillars:
Socio-Economics
To track the vulnerabilities of the people of Myanmar resulting from various crises.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
To assess regressions on key development indicators especially for vulnerable and marginalized populations.
Conflict
To monitor evolving dynamics with a particular focus on the nexus among conflict, poverty, livelihoods and the SDGs.
Cross-Cutting
The pillars will closely consider three major cross-cutting themes:
