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This report addresses the complex issue of shifting cultivation, which was brought up at the 2011 Round Table Implementation Meeting between the Lao government and international...

The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement P...

This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the u...

This document is the Ethnic Group Engagement Framework (EGEF) for the proposed Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP) prepared in conjunction with the Lao PDR Ministry ...

The proposed Health Sector Governance Program will be implemented nationally with the overarching goal to increase access, quality, and utilization of essential health services,...

This paper examines various aspects of the living standards of Lao PDR‘s ethnic minority groups relative to that of the historically dominant Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic group. Th...

Communally used land and resources comprise a critically important dimension of rural livelihoods in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Communal ...

The Womens Lives Project Documenting the Lives of Rural Women in the Uplands of Laos was designed by the Lao Upland Rural Advisory Services (LURAS) with the aim of learning mo...

This news article gives information on the conflict situation between Lao government and Hmong individuals in late 2018.

A brief summary of the situations and problems facing ethnic groups in the Lao PDR.

A summary of a World Bank project focused on community-level assistance and empowerment programs.

An analysis of the the variation in access to justice systems and property rights for women from five ethnic groups in Laos.

This page displays the video and information on traditional products from women of ethnic groups in Laos.

This page shows the profile of the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre in Laos, a local social enterprise founded in 2006 to promote the appreciation and transmission of Laos...

A policy framework laid out to address the ways in which the Lao Road Sector Project would impact rural ethnic groups through potential displacement and relocation.

This page outlines the organization of the Department of Ethnic Affairs under Lao Front for National Development, including the roles and responsibilities.

The human demographic history of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) has not been well-studied; in particular there have been very few sequence-based studies of variation in the male...

Lao PDR has pursued a top-down approach to economic growth and poverty alleviation that is all too often counterproductive, leading to impoverishment and jeopardising the rights...

This review describes seven sets of processes that influence this context, and therefore shape land and forest tenure in contemporary Laos. These include: 1. Macro-scale forest...

Land investment is booming in Laos, driven especially by demand for natural resources among its rapidly developing neighbours. Yet Laos remains one of the poorest countries in S...