You have been asked to develop a short (max 1000 word) briefing paper for a senior Australian bureaucrat overseeing one of the following development assistance projects:

1. A rapid assessment of measures to mitigate the impact of growing inequality on Indonesia’s poor
2. A mapping of the energy requirements of the Myanmar economy as secondary industry expands
3. A project to optimise health policy in Vietnam
4. A planning exercise designed to improve farm to market processes in Cambodia
5. A disaster management planning processes in the Philippines
6. A project to promote political stability in Thailand