“IFC to lead sustainable hydro in Myanmar”, 23 Sept 2015

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed to advise the government on environmental and social risk management for hydropower projects nationwide…The IFC…will help to develop technical guidelines and will provide policy guidance and training to the Ministry of Electric Power and the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry. Together they will commission a country-wide strategic environmental impact assessment for the hydropower sector…[Experts believe that] it will be an opportunity to put pipeline projects on hold – many of which are only at the pre-feasibility or feasibility stage…Some groups are concerned that the agreement has been signed with limited public information available…