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Viet Nam’s first training facility for nature-based solutions and water-sensitive urban design opened in November 2025. Within a month the university had adopted it for exhibitions, competitions and alumni events, putting working examples of nature-based design in front of the architects and engineers who will shape Viet Nam’s cities. In heavy rain, the courtyard at the centre of the C4 complex at H...

Overview In the mountains of northern Lao PDR, one storm can wash out a village road. A dry spell can empty an irrigation canal. A landslide can cut a school off from the families it serves. As the climate changes, these events are becoming more frequent and more severe. The Community Livelihood Enhancement and Resilience (CLEAR) project has been helping vulnerable communities respond. Led by the Go...

In mid-May 2026, a Mekong PAD III team travelled to Yok Don National Park in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands to assess the state of its forests and wetlands, the pressures of livestock grazing, and the livelihoods of the communities who live alongside it. Yok Don is unlike anywhere else in the country. It holds Viet Nam’s only dry dipterocarp forest ecosystem – an open, seasonally dry woodland found almost nowhere els...