The Mekong-U.S. Partnership Track 1.5 Policy Dialogues are a series of multi-day conferences taking place from 2021-2025 to explore solutions to key policy and sustainability challenges facing the Lower Mekong. The conferences will explore the following themes including: Connectivity, energy and infrastructure, non-traditional security, transboundary water governance, and nature-based solutions. Tying the conference experiences together are cross-cutting values of inclusivity, resilience (including climate), and collaboration. The Partnership Policy Dialogues are generously supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of State and implemented by the Stimson Center and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Project Objectives
Demonstrate the importance of US-Mekong engagement on critical issues and provide space to discuss and promote the work of regional initiatives.
Provide an interactive and publicly accessible approach for policy dialogue that demonstrates values such as respect for sovereignty and international law, transparency, and sustainable development.
Support and enhance multi-track dialogue among the current and next generation of government officials, policy specialists, subject-matter experts, civil society stakeholders, with special emphasis on youth, women, and indigenous cohorts by providing opportunities for building institutional partnerships, data-sharing, and the co-design of innovative policy solutions to key transboundary priorities and challenges.
Build capacity for the dissemination and incorporation of data-driven and transparent tools and resources and best practices in solving key transboundary priorities and challenges.
Events
- Upcoming
- Event
- April 27, 2026
- Past
- Event
- September 29, 2025
- Past
- Event
- September 23, 2025
- Cancelled
- January 29, 2025
- Past
- Event
- May 9, 2024
- Past
- Event
- September 28, 2023
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