8 February 2024, Vientiane, Lao PDR: Health care facilities in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) face significant gaps in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, leaving them highly...
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Major Climate Resilience Project Launches in Lao PDR
Media Contact: Media@savechildren.org The $28.2 million health-focused project will reach over a quarter of the country’s population FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Nov. 3, 2023)— Save the Children has signed an...
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East Asia | Annual Regional Snapshot 2022
East Asia and the Pacific is home to half of the world’s population living in poverty. Challenges faced by poor families in meeting their basic needs and securing their livelihoods are exacerbated by...
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: UN Common Country Analysis Update 2022
2022 Common Country Analysis Update With the reform of the UN development system (UNDS), the UN country team (UNCT) is taking new steps to improve the integration, efficiency, and effectiveness of...
UN Country Annual Results Report 2022
FOREWORD BY THE UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR With the successful rollout of the national vaccination campaign, 2022 saw the relaxation of most COVID-19 related restrictions, including the re-opening of...
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to health – together we can change this
“First came the rain. It did not stop for several days. The waters filled areas around our home. Then came the mosquitos. I was bitten but did not think much of it. Not long after my body started to...
World Vision Lao PDR Annual Report 2021
Overview of Lao PDR Priority sectors Child Protection World Vision recognises that vulnerability of children is very high in Lao PDR. A report released by UNICEF in 2018, Measuring Progress on Child...
2021 Progress Report: Lao PDR - United Nations Partnership Framework 2017-2021, A Partnership for Sustainable Development
Chapter 1: Key developments in the country and regional context In 2021 the COVID-19 pandemic has presented further challenges across development efforts and has to some extent stalled the promising...
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: UN Common Country Analysis - For the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2022-2026 and the 2030 Agenda
Introduction The UN Common Country Analysis (CCA) is an integrated, forward-looking, and evidence-based analysis of the country context for sustainable development. It is an impartial, collective,...
2020 Progress Report: Lao PDR - United Nations Partnership Framework 2017-2021, A Partnership for Sustainable Development
Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic that erupted in 2020 brought significant disruption to Lao PDR but with a fortunate low caseload to date the impact has primarily been socio-economic. Since...
Building climate-resilient health systems in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Case Study on Climate Change and Health
Lao People’s Democratic Republic is already feeling the impacts of climate change, and these impacts are increasingly affecting people’s health and straining an already overloaded health system...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Lao PDR
This profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected...
2019 Progress Report: Lao PDR - United Nations Partnership Framework 2017-2021, A Partnership for Sustainable Development
INTRODUCTION As this report documenting results and progress achieved through the UN Partnership Framework (UNPF) in 2019 was under preparation, the COVID-19 global pandemic was underway, with the...
Disaster Management Reference Handbook - Lao PDR (February 2021)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) is a land-locked, multi-ethnic, socialist state in Southeast Asia. It enjoys social stability, and there are no serious...
2018 Progress Report: Lao PDR - United Nations Partnership Framework 2017-2021, A Partnership for Sustainable Development [EN/LO]
Introduction Lao PDR reached a number of important development milestones in 2018. It passed the thresholds for Gross National Income (GNI) per capita and the Human Assets Index at the Committee for...
Analysis: Coping with volatile weather in Laos
HIGHLIGHTS Three diverse environments Development and disasters Thin coping capacity Coordination is the key BAN HOUYTHAO, 30 September 2013 (IRIN) - The frequent but low-impact disasters in Laos,...