New biodiversity and visitor centre set to highlight link between ecotourism and conservation in the south of Laos

Savannakhet Province is home to a unique type of forest landscape, called dry dipterocarp forest. This forest type is of global priority for biodiversity conservation, as it contains an exceptionally wide variety of animals and plants. To ensure conservation of this valuable habitat, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has broken ground on a Dry Dipterocarp Forest Centre. The Centre will be the headquarters for a biodiversity center, a center for livelihood activities for the local communities, as well as a visitor center and ecotourism hub.

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Lao PDR: Leading climate action by example?

Back to nature - a slogan much used at the recent international climate conference in Bonn. This slogan of nature-based solutions is reality in Lao PDR, a small land-locked country with a mission to graduate from its least-developed country status.

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What does the international Climate Conference COP 23 mean for Lao PDR?

A delegation from Lao PDR participated in COP23 climate conference. Lao PDR’s delegation took part in negotiations on implementing the Paris Agreement and to present the country’s own implementation progress in three side events, discussing issues of circular economy, South-South cooperation and Nationally Determined Contributions.

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UNDP Regional Director: “Diverse partnerships and a participatory approach hold the key to SDG success”

Haoliang Xu is currently visiting Lao PDR to attend the 2017 Round Table Implementation Meeting in Pakse.

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Brand Lao works for better livelihoods

Fragrant tea leaves, bags of pearly rice, coffee beans that bring back memories of the Boloven plateau and yards of smooth silk, in all colors of the rainbow – these are signature products of Lao.

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Shaping a sustainable future, together

“Having a goal isn’t wishing. It isn’t a faint hope or a vague dream that someday we’ll have or do or be. No, having a goal is much, much more” – this is the opening message of a new film, titled This is Development.

Step into the reality of a UXO clearance team

Sounds of an aircraft. A white screen. Bombs floating down to earth around a hand-drawn image of a tree. The tree and the surrounding hills are gaining in colour, slowly coming alive with people, and we are on top of a breezy hill, in North-Eastern Laos, Xieng Khouang Province. The tree is in front of us, but as we turn, we hear the whistling sound of metal detectors and find ourselves in the midst of a team of UXO clearance technicians. UXO. Unexploded ordnance. They are all around us.

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New biodiversity and visitor centre set to highlight link between ecotourism and conservation in the south of Laos

Lao PDR: Leading climate action by example?

What does the international Climate Conference COP 23 mean for Lao PDR?

UNDP Regional Director: “Diverse partnerships and a participatory approach hold the key to SDG success”

Brand Lao works for better livelihoods

Shaping a sustainable future, together

Step into the reality of a UXO clearance team

Our work through photos

Regional knowledge exchange in Manila

What we do

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