- Raising awareness and building capacity among affected communities through informational workshops, skills trainings, and educational materials such as documentary films.
- Facilitating grassroots research on the biodiversity of the Salween basin and the impacts of dam construction.
- Advocating for a dam-free Salween by producing campaign materials, gathering petition signatures, effectively engaging with the media, and lobbying elected and company officials.
- Networking between civil society organizations by coordinating meetings, conferences, and collaborative actions.
- Mobilizing the local, regional, and international community through public demonstrations.
KESAN’s Water Governance work over the past year has greatly built up the relationship between ethnic activists and the more mainstream civil society groups working in central Burma. We have been able to build trust at a personal and organizational level that has resulted in KESAN becoming allies with experts in renewable energy who have the ear of government and international institutions. This has increased KESAN’s ability to make stopping the Salween Dams an issue of national importance throughout Burma. Our Salween activism over the past decades has been a major success – the Salween remains dam-free – though investors are now trying to move forward.
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