Mekong - U.S. Partnership
Through JUMPP, the U.S. and Japan provide technical assistance to Mekong governments in pursuit of energy security and stronger power market governance while encouraging greater power trade, clean energy integration, decarbonization, and resilience. Through JUMPP, the six partner governments promote more sustainable energy sectors and quality energy infrastructure development with 101 completed and ongoing activities since 2019. U.S. and Japanese bilateral and regional technical assistance support Mekong electricity regulators, electric utilities, and energy ministries, as well as power system development by working with national power market authorities on integrating clean energy (renewable energy, battery storage, advanced metering, EVs, etc.); developing competitive power markets; enhancing cross-border power trade; and creating opportunities for private investment. The six partner governments worked together to develop a JUMPP Action Plan in 2023 for expanding regional cooperation across JUMPP’s three pillars: Clean Energy Integration, Market Development and Investment and Regional Power Trade. Through these pillars, illustrative examples of technical assistance include: power market analysis; advisory support; technical assessments; capacity building workshops; regulatory exchanges; and roundtables with private energy companies to accelerate the energy transition and cross-border power trade in the region. The governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Viet Nam, as well as Japan and the United States, have collaborated on JUMPP since 2019 and developed an Action Plan outlining 40 new technical assistance activities for implementation to advance shared goals of clean energy integration, expanded regional power trade, and power market reform.
- Mekong-U.S. Partnership at Work: July-September
- Summer 2024 Mekong-U.S. Partnership Semi-Annual Newsletter
- Upcoming: Mekong One Health Innovation Program (MOHIP) Webinar on Building Emergency Management Programs for National One Health Programs
- Mekong-U.S. Partnership at Work: April-June 2024
- Joint Co-Chair Statement on the 3rd Mekong-U.S. Partnership (MUSP) Ministerial Meeting
