Biography of Daw Yuza Maw Htoon

Yuza Maw Htoon is a Founder and a Director of two Myanmar NGOs, Mingalar Myanmar and Myanmar Development Foundation, working to promote sustainable development in the country through community based approaches.  The two Myanmar NGOs have been working in more than 1000 of Myanmar villages assisting for rural development that includes Microfinance, agriculture support, environment, and Disaster Risk Reduction programs.  The Myanmar NGOs advocate public policy issues to the government as well as to general public by passing on evidence-based findings and reviews from their community based programs. 

Yuza facilitates seminars, forums, and roundtable discussions on Climate Change and its adaptation; Disaster Risks Reduction (DRR); Environment; and restoration of coastal ecosystem for Myanmar coastal regions. She conducts trainings as a resource person to the National Program on Disaster Risks Reduction (DRR) in the Training of Trainers Courses for Disaster Risk Management.  She also develops Information, Education, Communication materials in Myanmar language for Trainer’s Handbook for Disaster Risk Management, a handbook for Community Based Organization, a handbook for teachers for school safety, and Plantation Guide for Mangroves in Ayeyarwady Delta. 

Yuza received her master degree of International Public Policy from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University of USA and a B.A. from Rangoon Arts & Science University (R.A.S.U.), Yangon, Myanmar.  Yuza is Chairperson of a law firm, Maw Htoon & Partners, in Yangon.