The Committee for Development Policy has announced that Lao PDR has fulfilled the eligiblity criteria to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status for the first time.
UNDP has offered to the Government of Lao PDR to help with coordination of rescue and relief efforts as well as early recovery activities in Attapeu province, flooded by damage of the hydroelectric dam in southern Laos.
Lao PDR updated the international community on implementation of its national SDG 18: “Lives Safe from UXO” during the UN High-Level Political Forum in New York.
On the 8th anniversary of the Convention on Cluster Munitions entering into force, Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP Lao PDR reflects on Lao PDR’s future with UXO
Inhabitans of Kabong village live without electricity, roads or stable incomes. UNDP is currently looking into solutions to improve the village's access to electricity.
UNDP Lao PDR visited one of the most secluded communities in Laos. See what we encountered during our exhilirating journey!
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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UNDP supports the Government of Lao PDR through a partnership approach, engaging with development partners, civil society and the private sector, in order to address development challenges. UNDP Lao PDR provides technical expertise and policy advice to the Government to implement national strategies and plans, and to localise the Sustainable Development Goals.
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About Lao PDR
6.5 million
Population
23 %
Poverty rate
$2,270
Per capita income
0.586
Human Dev. Index
