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  • MDGs in the Lao PDR

    In September of 2000, world leaders gathered at the Millennium Summit in New York City and signed the UN Millennium Declaration. This document is the foundation for the MDGs, a ...

  • Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Migration Activities

    This webpage provides a summary of migration activities in Lao PDR, specifically migration profiles and interconnecting needs.

  • Sengsavang - What we do

    The webpage provides an overview of the work that Sengsavang, an organization that provides assistance to vulnerable girls and human trafficking victims, does on a regular basis.

  • The broken dream - A story of forced labor

    The web piece tells a story of R-sone, a trafficking victim who was taken to Thailand, to display the condition of human trafficking in Laos.

  • Nam Theun 2 Project Overview

    The page offers an overview of Nam Theun 2 hydro-power project as of 2017, along with every stage of project updates.

  • National Trafficking Trends: Lao PDR

    The page offers an overview of human trafficking trends, anti-trafficking mechanisms and the encountered challenges in Lao PDR.

  • Laos electricity consumption

    Annual data on the consumption of electricity in Laos presented in total kilowatt-hours.

  • SDG5 Gender Equality

    This page provides a summary of the progress that Lao PDR has made on SDG5, gender equality.

  • Crazier than Fiction: the Elephant Rangers of Laos

    Four years ago, as monsoon rain streaked down dusty windows, Sebastien Duffilot, the founder of Laos Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) in Xayaboury, near Luang Prabang, and I s...

  • The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos

    This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors interests and strategies across scales and how they are clos...

  • Decree on Controlled Concession List in Lao PDR

    This decree comprises of 8 articles, identified what is the controlled list of concession, and the role of each government unit who will take in charge of controlled list of con...

  • Laos 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report

    The report provides a human trafficking profile in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.

  • Laos 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report

    The report covers the current human trafficking situation in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.

  • Fighting Poverty with Tea in Laos

    The mountain forests of northern Laos, remote regions that are home to many ethnic minorities, are native habitat for the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). Approximately 95% of the...

  • Decision on the Establishment and Management of Zoos, Wildlife farms, the breeding of wild animals and plants, and rehabilitation centres [Lao PDR]

    The Decision, which is posted on the official gazette, permits individuals, legal entities and organisations to establish and operate zoos, wildlife farms, and wild fauna and fl...

  • Making Possibilities out of the Impossible: Rural Migrant Workers Backdoor Economies and the Pitfall in Lao PDR

    In recent years, rural Lao society has witnessed a fast transition away from traditional land-based livelihood. This tendency is shaped by a collusion between neoliberal Lao sta...

  • The Geography of Security: Coercion, Comparative Advantage and Population Management Work in Contemporary Laos

    In early 1988, Laoss Council of Ministers issued an instruction to the nations ministries, state committees, mass organizations, provinces and municipalities. Titled stepping up...

  • Changes in Understandings of Land in Laos: From State Sovereignty to Capital Mobilization

    My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...

  • Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee

    Over the last two decades, a broad alliance of domestic and international actors in the Lao PDR have devised policy interventions on the issue of strengthening customary tenure....

  • Improving Capacity for Better Use of Public Funds [Lao PDR]

    What is PFM? The World Bank is working with the Lao government on their Public Financial Management. Ultimately, an improved PFM system will benefit all Lao citizens and provide...