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- Government getting prepared for exiting LDC status
  
  12 march
  
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- Managing Disaster Risk in Xiengkhouang
  
  09 march
  
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- Reduce Investment Barriers to Boost Provincial Development
  
  10 february
  
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- Small-Scale Irrigation Improvement for Bolikhamxay Province
  
  04 february
  
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- Norway Renews Its Support to reduce the impact of Cluster Munitions in Laos
  
  03 january
  
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- Reaching out to people of Houn and Namor, in Oudomxay through community radios
  
  03 january
  
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- United Nations Observes Human Rights Day
  
  10 december
  
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- The United States and UNDP Support Lao PDR’s Efforts to Improve Access to Justice in the Lao PDR
  
  03 december
  
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- The Round Table Implementation Meeting 2014 Reviews Progress in National Development
  
  14 november
  
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- Textbook launch marks new learning opportunity on human development for Lao students
  
  04 november
  
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- UN Day celebrated in Laos
  
  24 october
  
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- What does the UN do in the Lao PDR? Q&A; with Resident Coordinator
  
  23 october
  
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- Legal frameworks for public administration to be improved
  
  17 october
  
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- Governance partners gather for annual sector review
  
  17 october
  
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- Progress on Food and Nutrition Security action plan reviewed in Saravane consultations
  
  16 september
  
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- SPEECH: The 4th Anniversary of Entry into Force of Convention on Cluster Munitions
  
  1 august
  
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- Alexandra Bounxouei teams up with UNDP for UXO documentary
  
  1 august
  
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- Maintaining human development requires reducing risks and building resilience
  
  30 july
  
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- New project to strengthen National Assembly
  
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- New UN Resident Coordinator presents credentials to Deputy Prime Minister
  
  18 june
  
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- Climate change conference brings together agricultural experts from the region
  
  17 june
  
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- Outgoing UN Resident Coordinator: Impressive achievements in development
  
  23 may
  
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What We Do

UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach the eight Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), which commit to cutting world poverty in half by 2015. A ninth MDG specific to Lao PDR pledges to reduce the impact of unexploded ordnance (UXO) still remaining from the Second Indochina war.

Featured Publication

The 2014 Human Development Report

Lao PDR sits in the medium human development category, ranking 139 out of 187 countries and territories in the world. The average HDI for countries in the medium human development group is 0.614 and 0.703 for countries in East Asia and the Pacific region.

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