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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 civic education, fostering democratic governance and strengthening the foundation of a market-based economy. The foundation officially opened a country office in Yangon in 2013. We firmly believe that individual freedoms and responsibilities are prerequisites for an open, free and democratic society. 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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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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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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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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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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Liberal Human Rights Work 2022
In over 60 countries, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom promotes human rights and supports organizations and human rights defenders working for the protection of human rights and the rule of law. This report offers an insight into the foundation's Liberal Human Rights work in 2022.
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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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ယူကရိန်းကျူးကျော်စစ်မှာ အာဆီယံ-ဥရောပသမဂ္ဂရဲ့ ဆက်ဆံရေးကို မီးမောင်းထိုးပြမှု
အာဆီယံ-အီးယူရဲ့ လွတ်လပ်စွာကုန်သွယ်မှုစာချုပ်အရ အရှေ့တောင်အာရှမှာ အီးယူရဲ့ ကုန်သွယ်မှုဟာ လူပေါင်း သန်း၆၆၀ နဲ့ GDP ၃ ထရီလီယံခန့် ဆက်နွယ်မှုရှိနိုင်ပါတယ်။ FNF နဲ့ Asia Center က အာဆီယံ၊ အီးယူဆက်သွယ်ရေးနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ပေါ်လစီပေပါတစ်စောင် ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။
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ကမ္ဘာ့စင်မြင့်ထက်မှာ EU ရဲ့ ပါဝင်မှုကို အကဲဖြတ်ခြင်း
ရရှားရဲ့ ယူကရိန်အပေါ်ကို ကျူးကျော်စစ်ပွဲကအစပြုလို့ ဥရောပနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာစာမျက်နှာထက်မှာ ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုတစ်ခု အဖြစ်ရှိနေပါတယ်။ ဒီမိုကရေစီရဲ့ လစ်ဘရယ်မော်ဒယ် တစ်ခု ဖြစ်တဲ့ ပွင့်လင်းတဲ့ဝန်းကျင်၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီ၊ တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးမှု၊ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးနဲ့ စျေးကွက်စီးပွားရေး စနစ်စတာတွေအပေါ်မှာ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတစ်ခုအဖြစ်ရှိနေပါတယ်။
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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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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.
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Get into the Mind of an Entrepreneur (+Podcast)
Together with partners, FNF Myanmar launches its first podcast: Learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how they overcome their obstacles – and be inspired to start your own business. How do they cope with stress, and how do they motivate each day to take on the struggle? Why did they decide to start a business instead of pursuing a career as an employee? What specific difficulties face female entrepreneurs?
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Call for Applications: Present your Innovation in Germany
The Falling Walls Lab Myanmar is hosted with the approval of Falling Walls Foundation in Germany. FNF and partners have hosted the Lab since 2016 (except 2021) and this year will be the sixth year of Falling Walls Lab Myanmar.
