Myanmar

Acted launched its operations in Myanmar in August 2008, as an immediate response to Cyclone Nargis. Between 2008 and 2010, Acted’s primary focus was on disaster relief and rehabilitation activities for affected communities. Acted Myanmar is experienced in food security, water, sanitation, livelihood, and hygiene programmes. Since 2012, Acted expanded its operations into Rakhine state, with recent projects focusing on infrastructural rehabilitations, and inter-communal collaborations through job creation activities.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Acted also included a PPE production activity by local community members: cloth masks tailored by local women in the townships of Yangon and Rakhine. This resulted in over 173,000 masks produced benefiting over 86,000 recipients and 67 tailors found a new income generation source during the global pandemic time.

In 2020, Acted Myanmar established the 3Zero Platform in Myanmar, seeking to build capacity, empower and bring together local civil society actors in the Yangon area to achieve a greater impact in advocating initiatives to hold governmental actors accountable and advise authorities on concrete implementation measures in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This project benefitted 27 new, active members, both organizations (20 CSOs, 5 INGOs) and individuals, of the 3Zero national Platform. The project also indirectly benefited private sector businesses, national government authorities, and decision makers through enhanced connectivity and capability of the 3Zero members.