R&R-Mekong Inclusion Project (IP3)

About this project

Rivers and Rights Foundation (R<(>&<)>R) is formerly International Rivers (IR) has partnership with Oxfam over ten years. Now, the Southeast Asia Team has separately as R<(>&<)>R registered as Thai Foundation and official recognized by authority from 1 October 2025 onward. R<(>&<)>R will be focusing on the following strategies. We have a proven and evolving strategy that fosters grassroots connections, catalyses media campaigns, undertakes institutional research and analysis, and supports advocacy, and campaigns for greater inclusion of communities and marginalised groups in planning and decision-making. We combine an environmental and human rights approach and emphasize the importance of strengthening civil society and people’s movements. Thematically, R<(>&<)>R, partners and allies will focus on the following key water governance policies, plans and projects: • Large-scale transboundary hydropower projects, especially Mekong and Salween mainstream dams. For Salween mainstream dams, we will mainly play a monitoring role, given our analysis to date indicates that Salween mainstream dams are unlikely to progress significantly over the next three years due to ongoing conflict in Myanmar. For Mekong mainstream dams, we will focus on dams that are currently, or plan to export electricity to Thailand, as these also involve Thai developers and financiers and are also linked to the Thai Power Development Plan, which at time of writing has not yet been approved. Approaches and inter…

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Oxfam Novib · International NGO

Countries

Thailand

Sectors

Democratic participation and civil societyFishing policy and administrative management

Published by Oxfam Novib to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 12 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27108436-A-07614-19:TH.

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