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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) promotes democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and curbing climate change. In Myanmar, we work with local partners in promoting and strengthening the foundation of a market-based economy. The foundation officially opened a country office in Yangon in 2013. Should you have any question or suggestion about our work, please contact us. You can also meet our team here.
News
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Myanmar's Push for Climate Action: Heading to Falling Walls Lab Germany 2023
Myanmar's endeavor to tackle climate issues takes center stage with the title "Breaking the Wall of Climate Action with Green Schools." This distinctive title has been chosen to represent Myanmar at the upcoming Falling Walls Lab Germany 2023 event scheduled for November. The journey began at the Falling Walls Lab Myanmar event held on August 26, 2023.
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Call for Accounting and Programme Assistant
The full-time position, based in Yangon, is open to Myanmar nationals only. FNF is a liberal Foundation from Germany, which promotes Democracy, Market Economy and Human Rights by cooperating with NGOs and Think Tanks in Asia and around the world.
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AI: Challenges and opportunities for SMEs
AI is increasingly being used in businesses worldwide, including Myanmar to create job processes and manage business data more effectively. As AI continues to become a leading technology trend, businesses in Myanmar are recognizing the importance of incorporating AI into their operation.
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Equity & Empowerment: Keys for Success Among Myanmar Women
“In Myanmar, women, although may know their ways forward, are quite restricted by their societal or family norms,” Su Su Nge from the Fifth Pillar said. “Because of these, they see the road and the garden in front of them but dare not come down from the house to walk their way forward.”
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Launching Land of Growth Card Game to Myanmar Audience
In an exciting development for fans of business and economics, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Myanmar Office launched a new market economy card game on 27th January 2023. The game, called "Land of Growth", is developed by the FNF Thailand Office to stimulate a complex market economy in a user-friendly and engaging way. They also need to adapt to changing market conditions, such as fluctuations in demand and supply, and respond to the actions of other players.
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Embracing equity is the right thing to do
The aim of the IWD 2023 #EmbraceEquity campaign theme is to get the world talking about Why equal opportunities aren't enough. In this year quote, “Embrace Equity” for recognising that each women have different circumstances and allocates resources and opportunity needed to reach an equal outcome. #Equality means each individual is given the same resources and opportunities.
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Global Europe – Global Expectations
Today, we are experiencing that the European Union and its model of democratic societies are losing their worldwide popularity. The growing global influence of actors with values, political systems, and worldviews that are diametrically opposing to those of the EU, as well as the renaissance of geopolitical blocs (as evidenced by the abstention of some states in the UN in condemning Russia's war of aggression), further reinforce this trend.
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Falling Walls Lab Myanmar 2023
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Falling Walls Lab Myanmar 2022
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Tackling the EU's dependency on raw materials
Europe’s industries have been striving on imported raw materials, which has created a strong dependency on resource providers. In particular, China has established itself as the main provider of numerous critical raw materials, the disruption of which, if used a political instrument to impose pressure in an age of increasing geopolitical divergence, could seriously endanger economic stability in Europe. This study investigates Europe’s options to diversify raw material sourcing and takes a close look at one of its major strategic resource autonomy projects: the circular economy.
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ကိုယ်တိုင်တွေ့ကြုံရတဲ့ အဖြစ်အပျက်များကို မျှဝေပြီး အများသူငါကို ခွန်အားဖြစ်စေဖို့ရည်ရွယ်တဲ့ Open Mic
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအခြေအနေအရ ပွင့်လင်းမြင်သာစွာပြောဆိုဖို့ခက်ခဲကြပါတယ်။ တစ်စုံတစ်ဦးရဲ့ ခက်ခဲတဲ့အခြေအနေကနေ ရုန်းကန်ကြိုးစားအောင်မြင်လာပြီး အဲ့ဒီအကြောင်းကို တခြားသူကို ပြောပြဖို့ စိတ်ခွန်အားပေးဖို့ဆိုတာက မလိုအပ်ဘူးလို့လည်း လူမှုပတ်ဝန်းကျင်မှာ ယူဆတက်ကြပါသေးတယ်။ ဒီလိုမျိုး မပြောပြတက်၊ မဝေမျှတက်၊ နားလည်ဖိုခက်ကြတဲ့ ပုံစံမျိူးဟာ စိတ်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာအရ ပိုပြီးခံစားဖို့လွယ်ကူတဲ့ အခြေအနေကိုပိုပြီးတွန်းပို့နိုင်ပါတယ်။ ဒီလို အနေအထားမျိုးကို ဖြေရှင်းပေးဖို့ open mic ဆိုတဲ့အစီအစဉ်တစ်ခုကို FNF Myanmar က စီစဉ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။
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Share Your Story. Empower Others.
Myanmar’s society does not support open dialogue. It is a culture “to keep one’s own business to oneself”. Sharing one’s success story is seen as boastful behavior; talking about personal struggles and how they were managed is often portrayed as unnecessary. However, less talking, less understanding of each other, and less sympathy for others means more suffering.
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Can women succeed in tech industry?
Women face barriers to success in male-dominated tech industry. Khin Sandar Aung is one of the few women, who made it to a senior position. It was definitely not an easy journey. In Myanmar’s society jobs in tech are considered to be for men. Women are supposed to become housewives or pursue a career in a field that is typical for women.
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The idea of Nonfunctional Laboratories in Schools won the first place in Falling Walls Lab Myanmar
The owner of the idea was selected as the winner on 17th September, 2022 by a team of 6 juries with varying expertise. This event was the first in-person event in 3-year time after covid-19 restrictions were enforced since early 2020. A total of 17 finalists presented their ideas on how their ideas could solve the various issues amongst the communities.
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Introducing Basic Economic Concepts to Youngsters
With the compounded crisis caused by Covid and the Coup, Myanmar's Economy is projected to be shrunk by more than 5 percent. With soaring prices, weaker currencies, and losses in thousands of jobs, the recovery will be a long way to go.
