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Laos Tests Proven Approach To Tackle Malnutrition

(KPL) The Lao PDR will test a new cross-cutting and evidence-based approach to reducing stunting in four northern provinces with support from the World Bank.Representatives from the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Agriculture, Public Works and Transport, and Health, together with the World Bank, met ...

KPL

Cooperation urged to reduce country’s malnutrition rate

Nutrition officials under the Ministry of Health have been advised to boost cooperation with development partners and local administrations to reduce the malnutrition rate in the country.More ...

Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth

Nation facing food security challenges following extreme weather

Laos’ attempts to strengthen food security are facing major challenges after almost 600 irrigation projects were affected by heavy flooding during tropical storms Son-tinh and Bebinca last month.More ...

Ounkham Pimmata

Poverty rate may increase in the wake of flooding

The number of poor families could be revised up this year in the wake of flooding that has ravaged many parts of Laos, claiming many lives and a huge amount of property. Thousands of people who were previously lifted above the poverty line could be re-classified ...

Somsack Pongkhao

Exemplify leadership in rural development, PM tells Party members

Party members must lead the nation’s people in turning policy into action for rural development and poverty reduction, the Prime Minister told a meeting on the topic. Converting rhetoric into concrete implementation required all Party members to pull their full weight as a fine example to ...

Vientiane Times

Prosperity of country, communities reliant on poverty reduction push: PM

Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith has called for efforts to ensure poverty and least-developed status can be eradicated from the country’s rural areas, with the entire nation called upon to participate in the struggle.More ...

Vientiane Times

Poverty fight calls for facts

The government is seeking to get the facts on poverty and development in the country with  the decree no.348 on criteria standards for poverty graduation and development status.More  ...

Vientiane Times

Korean association’s 32 billion set to help the poor

The Sharing Culture Arts Association of Korea has provided clothes, shoes, desks and chairs to benefit the poor to the Lao government worth over 32 billion kip (US$3,894,720). It will also aim to assist in alleviation efforts for disaster victim and disadvantaged people in rural ...

Vientiane Times

Northern nutrition improvements get EU, AFD support

The European Union (EU) and French Agency for Development (AFD) have forecast a budget of over 5.7 million euros in assistance from 2018-2022 for a project to support nutrition-sensitive agriculture in northern Laos.More ...

Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth

Over 2,500 Villages Benefit From Poverty Reduction Fund

(KPL) Over 2,500 villages in rural areas of fifty five districts have reportedly benefited from the Poverty Reduction Fund since 2002.More ...

KPL

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