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Ethnic group development plan for health governance and nutrition development project
The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement...
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Civilising the uplands: development of rubber plantations in remote areas of Lao PDR
This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the...
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Ethnic Groups Engagement Framework
This document is the Ethnic Group Engagement Framework (EGEF) for the proposed Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP) prepared in conjunction with the Lao PDR Ministry...
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A New Dawn for Equitable Growth in Myanmar? Making the Private Sector Work for Small-Scale Agriculture
The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but, without targeted policy efforts and regulation to even the playing field,...
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Lao PDR: Health Sector Governance Program
The proposed Health Sector Governance Program will be implemented nationally with the overarching goal to increase access, quality, and utilization of essential health services,...
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Ethno-linguistic diversity and disadvantage
This paper examines various aspects of the living standards of Lao PDR‘s ethnic minority groups relative to that of the historically dominant Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic group....
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Governing Communal Land in the Lao PDR
Communally used land and resources comprise a critically important dimension of rural livelihoods in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Communal...
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Agribusiness Models for Inclusive Growth in Myanmar: Diagnosis and Ways Forward
Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...
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Situation of the ethnic and religious minorities In the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
A brief summary of the situations and problems facing ethnic groups in the Lao PDR.
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Women's land and property rights under customary or traditional tenure systems in five ethnic groups in Lao PDR
An analysis of the the variation in access to justice systems and property rights for women from five ethnic groups in Laos.
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Draft Ethnic Groups Policy Framework
A policy framework laid out to address the ways in which the Lao Road Sector Project would impact rural ethnic groups through potential displacement and relocation.
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Contrasting paternal and maternal genetic histories of Thai and Lao populations
The human demographic history of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) has not been well-studied; in particular there have been very few sequence-based studies of variation in the...
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UN expert: Lao PDRs economic strategy entrenches poverty
Lao PDR has pursued a top-down approach to economic growth and poverty alleviation that is all too often counterproductive, leading to impoverishment and jeopardising the rights...
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Land and Forest Tenure in Laos: Baseline Overview 2016 with Options for Community Participation in Forest Management
This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include: 1. Macro-scale forest...
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On the right path? Land concessions in Laos
Land investment is booming in Laos, driven especially by demand for natural resources among its rapidly developing neighbours. Yet Laos remains one of the poorest countries in...
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Unsettling experiences: Internal resettlement and international aid agencies in Laos
A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas and along...
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Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development
Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance program developed Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) manual Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development....
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Forest cover and land-use changes in Lao PDR according to the National Forest Reconnaissance Survey
It is planned to assess forest cover and land use from 2002 to 2012, which will reveal the current change of land use throughout the country. But it can be assumed that the area...
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Post-disaster needs assessment 2018 floods, Lao PDR
Lao PDR has been severely affected by floods between July and September 2018. (currently says in recent months). On July 1819, Tropical Storm Son-Tinh caused heavy rains and...
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015
This year ?s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established Millennium Development Goal...