Strategic Plans

The MRC Strategic Plan (SP) 2021-2025 is a unified corporate plan that is fully integrated with the the IWRM-based Basin Development Strategy (BDS) 2021-2030. The SP sets out how the MRC will contribute to the implementation of the BDS 2021-2030 and strengthen the organisation over the next five years. It guides the actions of the MRC Secretariat in supporting the Member Countries – Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam – to promote and coordinate sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin.

Basin Development Strategy

The Basin Development Strategy (BDS) is a basin-wide strategy aims at guiding all actors involved in the development and management of the Mekong water and related resources towards achieving improvements in the environmental, social and economic state of the Mekong River Basin, in line with the intent of the 1995 Mekong Agreement

The first BDS 2011-2015 and the second BDS 2016-2020 set out how the Member Countries used, managed and conserved the Mekong’s natural resources by providing an integrated basin perspective for the assessment and improvement of national plans and projects to ensure an acceptable balance between economic and environment outcomes that benefit the basin countries and people.

Unlike the previous editions with a timeframe of five years, the BDS 2021-2030 is prepared for a ten-year period and focuses on the entire Mekong River Basin as the current water security issues can be addressed effectively only at the basin scale through cooperation between all six basin countries and their cooperative bodies. The Strategy covers all water and related sectors and integrates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant to water resources management and internalises a ‘gender and vulnerability’ approach to account for intersectional inequity and the different dimensions of vulnerability.

This BDS 2021-2030 sets out five strategic priorities to enable Mekong countries to address emerging challenges and improve the overall state of the basin. These strategic priorities are:

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Dr. An Pich Hatda

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 
Hatda

Mr. Pham Tuan Phan

First Riparian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat

Mr. Hans Joakim GUTTMAN

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Jeremy Douglas BIRD

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Kristensen Joern

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Dr. Olivier Cogels

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat 

Mr. Yasunobu Matoba

Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Secretariat