OneMekong Communities

Communities

Empowering people and youth through inclusive collaboration — communities are at the centre of every OneMekong initiative.

Communities are co-designers, not beneficiaries

We treat community partners as co-designers from day one. That means joint problem-framing, joint design, joint decision-making about what gets built, and joint ownership of the data and tools. The communities closest to a problem usually have the best insight into the solution.

Co-design workshops

Multi-day workshops with community partners before any technology is built.

Community data sovereignty

Communities retain rights to data they produce and decide how it is shared.

Local hiring

We hire and train local team members in every Mekong country we work in.

Bilingual everything

All training, alerts and tools are released in local languages.

Women & youth first

Programmes are designed to ensure women and youth are central, not afterthoughts.

Long-term presence

We commit to multi-year partnerships in every region we engage.

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