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Scaling up South-South Cooperation for Sustainable Development
South-South Cooperation is ‘A process whereby two or more developing countries pursue their individual and/or shared national capacity development objectives through exchanges o...
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Development Finance for the 8th National Socio-Economic Development Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals in Lao PDR: A Development Finance and Aid Assessment
This Development Finance and Aid Assessment (DFAA) was commissioned by the Ministry of Planning and Investment, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UND...
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MDGs Localization in Lao PDR
1.Localization of MDGs in Lao PDR 2.Key successes in localizing MDGs 3.Key challenges and some off-track MDGs 4.Post-2015 development agenda
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Country Analysis Report. Lao PDR Analysis to inform the Lao People’s Democratic Republic– United Nations Partnership Framework (2017-2021)
The purpose of this Country Analysis is to guide the UN Country Team in selecting and prioritizing interventions, and targeting support to where the UN can make the biggest diff...
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UNDAF Action Plan 2012-2015 Lao PDR
The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) Action Plan is the strategic programme framework for the United Nations in the Lao PDR. It describes the collective r...
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2017 Lao Social Indicator Survey II to Provide data for the SDGs
The Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) II is a nation-wide household-based survey with a sample size of 23,400, covering all of the country’s 18 provinces. It aims to generate d...
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UNICEF Annual Report 2016: Lao People's Democratic Republic
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) in 2016 witnessed a new Government and National Assembly; the implementation of the 8th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (...
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Communal Land Titling in Practice: Lessons from Khammoune Province, Lao PDR
This capitalization note explores the results and lessons learned from a process to issue a Communal Land Title (CLT) to 33 households on 41.6 hectares of agricultural land in T...
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Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Lower Mekong Basin: Country Report for Lao PDR
This report begins with a description of what ecosystem services are and how they can be categorized. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is the most ubiquitous and comprehensiv...
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Regulation on the approval procedure for proposed clean development mechanism (CDM) project activities in Laos
The purpose of this regulation is to define the necessary principles, rules, measures and procedures for operation of the CDM framework for the national approval of proposed CDM...
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Strategic Plan On Disaster Risk Management in Lao PDR 2020, 2010 and action plan (2003-2005)
The National Disaster Management Committee (NDMC) and Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (MLSW) evaluated their experience in disaster management and lessons learned, adopting...
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Lao PDR’s Ramsar sites, Xe Champhone and Beung Kiat Ngong wetlands, learn from each other
This is an archived press release from the IUCN discussing a capacity development program sharing knowledge about wetland conservation management and conflict resolution for the...
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Fishbase: List of Freshwater Fishes reported from Lao (People's Democratic Republic) (landlocked)
FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on fishes. Its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species has now grown to ha...
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An introduction to the fisheries of the Lao PDR
The report is about an introduction to the fisheries in Laos where capture fisheries and aquaculture relies upon water resource ecosystems mainly consisting of rivers and stream...
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Rescaling and Reordering Nature–Society Relations: The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Dam and Laos–Thailand Electricity Networks
This article seeks to interrogate these links, showing how the hydrological flows of the XBF River are now transformed by regional power grids that are heavily shaped by fluctua...
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Wetland Priority Sites in Lao PDR - the top five priority sites
This presentation discusses Wetland Priority Sites in LAO PDR and prepared for: Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment for the Wetlands of the Lower Mekong Basin f...
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Environmental and Social Management Framework: Protected Area And Wildlife Project
This Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been prepared for the Protected Area and Wildlife Project (PAW). The project aims to strengthen the management syst...
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Review of the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR
This review presents the report on the National Protected Area System of Lao PDR. It provides current status of legal, policy and institutional frameworks, biodiversity signific...
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Economic, social and environmental impacts of investments in mining
This issues brief series is developed by the Poverty‐ Environment Initiative of Lao PDR to address poverty and environment issues in the current development and national plann...
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Organic by default: Myth or Reality? Evidence from the Lao PDR
This presentation presents Organic Agriculture in Lao PDR and discusses important and positive changes to the farming & marketing practices of smallholder rice farmers as well a...