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Laos
News from Laos Learn about our latest work and development approaches. View all news and insights What We Do Revitalizing wetland habitats With more than a third of economic growth […]
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Laos
The Asia Foundation has worked in Lao People’s Democratic Republic since 1958. We work with local partners and the Lao government to improve governance and access to justice for all […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Lao PDR
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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How to Become a Carbon Neutral Office in Lao PDR
Our vision at The Asia Foundation is for a peaceful, just, and thriving Asia. But we're facing an unprecedented climate crisis, and without action, it will destroy the vision we've been striving to achieve for over 70 years. It's not enough to work on climate issues at arm’s length; we must be willing to change…
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Why Go Carbon Neutral? Aren’t We Too Small to Make a Difference?
Our team in Laos has made their office carbon neutral. In the first of a four-part series, Country Representative Todd Wassel explains how and why they did it.
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The Future Forecast: Asia in 2023
At the end of each year, we ask our experts across Asia to reveal what the New Year has in store. Here’s what they told us about 2023.
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Do Cities Still Hold a Promise for Young Women in Asia?
The pandemic years have dealt a setback to young urban women in Asia. Can Asian cities still offer women a path to gender equality?
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Laos in 2022: Development Challenges and Opportunities
Located in the center of the Asia-Pacific region, Laos faces many challenges as one of Asia’s least developed economies and Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country. Its geographic location makes Laos […]
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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Inequalities in Asian Cities: Focus on Tourism Workers in Vientiane, Vang Vieng, Pakse and Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
The Asia Foundation, in partnership with Kore Global, led an eight-city qualitative research project to explore the multidimensional impacts of Covid-19 on marginalized groups across five Asian countries. Each of […]
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Go Digital ASEAN Develops Specialized Curricula for ASEAN Countries
Implemented by The Asia Foundation, with support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the initiative trained over 225,000 people from rural regions and underserved communities—including entrepreneurs, underemployed youth, and women. Launched […]
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Laos – Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
Overview of Laos office Women’s Empowerment Program activities including building on achievements of the Government of Laos and partners to fill important gaps for prosecution, protection, and prevention of trafficking […]
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Laos – Legal Aid and Access to Justice
Overview of Laos office Legal Aid and Access to Justice Program activities, including expanding access to legal aid through legal aid offices and clinics, and increasing the number of lawyers […]
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Laos – Governance
Overview of Laos country office Governance activities including collaboration to develop parliamentary research capacity within the Institute of Legislative Studies to support parliamentarians in better executing their policymaking and oversight […]
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Laos – Environment and Climate Action
Overview of the Lao Country Office Environment and Climate Action program activities. These include supporting community-based projects that help citizens plan the use of natural resources that are critical to […]
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Laos – Economic Empowerment
Overview of The Asia Foundation’s economic empowerment work in Laos including projects that support both regulatory and legislative improvements, and immediate solutions for entrepreneurs and micro, small, and medium enterprises.
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Lao PDR: The First Pandemic Year
Lao PDR recorded its first Covid-19 case in March 2020. The first nationwide lockdown, closing all non-essential businesses, occurred from March 30 to May 4, 2020. While restrictions within Lao […]
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Peering into the Year Ahead in Asia
The year is still young, but our country representatives are looking ahead to the trends and developments that will affect the course of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific in 2022.
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CHARLES & KEITH Supports The Asia Foundation’s Work in Gender Equality
On International Women’s Day CHARLES & KEITH announces their support of The Asia Foundation’s work in gender equality and women’s empowerment in Southeast Asia. They will donate part of the […]
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Our Predictions for 2021, Following a Year That Defied Prediction
From a pandemic that quickly swept the globe, to the storming of the U.S. capital, 2020 was a year that defied prediction. So, what can we say about 2021? After a year that derailed development trajectories across Asia, our experts look to the year ahead.
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The Asia Foundation Supports Legal Aid in Laos
On August 14, 2020, The Asia Foundation provided a grant to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) in Laos to further implement the Memorandum of Understanding on Access to Justice and […]
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Stemming Asia’s Plastic Tide One Banana Leaf at a Time
From the white sand beaches of Thailand to the lush mountains of Laos, tourism in Southeast Asia has brought more trash to nations already wrestling with solid waste. Can ecotourism stem the tide?
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Soukdalone Phommathep
Soukdalone Phommathep is a primary school teacher and teacher development specialist working on education reform in Laos. She facilitates implementation of the revised national primary curriculum, including training more than […]
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Insider Briefing: Girls’ Scholarship Programs in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Featuring Meloney Lindberg, Country Representative, Cambodia, The Asia Foundation Todd Wassel, Country Representative, Laos, The Asia Foundation Michael DiGregorio, Country Representative, Vietnam, The Asia Foundation Nikita Desai, Associate Director of […]
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2020 in Asia: A 20/20 Look
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2020. To herald the new decade, our country representatives this week survey the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for a dynamic and rapidly changing Asia. Here, to kick off the new year, are perspectives from The Asia Foundation’s 18 country offices.
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Lao Citizen Scientists Manage Wetlands Sustainably
There were no fish in the Nong Tham Hee wetland in the 2017 dry season. There were none in the 2018 dry season. The people of Nyangkham village, who once […]
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Making Sense of the “Many Mekongs”
Political leaders are under constant pressure to introduce new initiatives, because new implies better, and that’s the nature of politics. Even clever repackaging of previous efforts is often not enough. […]
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A Long Road: Access to Justice in Laos
When her father died suddenly last year, the family of Mrs. Somleuthai (her name has been changed for privacy) started to break apart. Her father, a small farmer, had left […]
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The Asia Foundation Announces Winning Projects from 2019 YSEALI EcoTourism Workshop in Laos
The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the winning projects of the U.S. Department of State’s 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism. Implemented […]
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The Asia Foundation Appoints Todd Wassel Country Representative in Laos
The Asia Foundation announces the appointment of Todd Wassel as country representative in Laos. Prior to this appointment, Wassel served as the Foundation’s country representative in Timor-Leste, where he managed […]
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Sanva Saephan
Sanva Saephan is an author and social entrepreneur with a firm belief in the power of education. Observing the lack of affordable, quality English and Chinese enrichment courses, Sanva founded […]
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Announcing the Participants of the 2019 YSEALI Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism
The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the participants of the 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism, a program of the U.S. Department […]
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2019: The Year Ahead in Asia
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2019. In our last issue we looked at some of our top stories from the year just ended, […]
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Applications Now Open for 2019 YSEALI Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism
The Asia Foundation is implementing this 5-day workshop in the world heritage site of Luang Prabang, Laos from March 4-8th 2019. We are looking for actively engaged students, entrepreneurs and […]
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Disaster-Risk Management in Laos
In July, Lao PDR experienced significant increases in water levels due to heavy rains from the southwest monsoon. The adverse effects were exacerbated by Tropical Storm Son-Tinh, which blew through […]
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Love Laos: Keep It Clean Campaign Highlighted in Brunei News Story on Plastic Crisis
Brunei News cites The Asia Foundation’s InAsia blog post “Love Laos: Keep it Clean” in a piece reporting on how “Southeast Asian Nations Grapple with Worsening Plastic Trash Crisis.” Traditionally, […]
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Community Water Quality Monitoring
Biomonitoring Approach Using Macroinvertebrates This introductory Training Guide is based on a more in-depth, peer reviewed Manual for Water Quality Monitoring in Rivers, produced by The Asia Foundation–first for Mongolia […]
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ASEAN at 50: Walking a Tightrope?
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and, in this past May, the 40th anniversary of the United States being […]
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Time for ASEAN, and its Partners, to Get Regulatory
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) turned 50 yesterday, August 8, which should be cause for celebration. But is 50 an energized mid-life birthday, or is it an ominous […]
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Asian Solutions to Asia’s Urban Challenges
According to UN Habitat’s most recent World Cities Report, cities today make up more than half of the world’s population, emit 70 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, and […]
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Love Laos: Keep it Clean
Sitting beside the Mekong River, sipping a cold drink and enjoying the scenery is a welcome break for tourists and locals alike in Laos. You can usually see men out […]
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ASEAN Could Take Lead on Plastic Crisis in Asia
April 22 marks Earth Day around the globe. I was in 8th grade when Earth Day was first commemorated in 1970, and to mark the day, I participated in annual […]
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Khouanfa Siriphone
Mr. Khouanfa Siriphone is co-founder of STELLA, a social enterprise that supports youth development in Laos. He has combined his background in communication, capacity development, entertainment, and education in an […]
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Laos: Reaping the Benefits of a New Era of International Cooperation
This month, the Southeast Asian nation of Laos hosted two of the region’s most important annual gatherings—the ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit—in its capital, Vientiane. President Barack Obama, […]
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Todd Wassel
Todd Wassel is The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Laos. He formerly served as country representative in Timor-Leste, where he managed programs that help build responsive state institutions to prevent […]
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TPP and RCEP: Boon or Bane for ASEAN?
2015 is a critical year for the Asia-Pacific region. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), backed by the U.S. Senate's recent approval of "fast-track" authority, is now entering the final round of negotiations in Hawaii. Another Asian free trade agreement (FTA), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), is also due by the end of 2015, with a…
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The Museum as Keeper of Memory – a Conversation with Pierre Baptiste
Pierre Baptiste, a well-known specialist in ancient Khmer and Cham art, visited San Francisco this spring as The Asia Foundation's Brayton Wilbur Jr. Fellow in Asian Art. A senior curator at the Musée Guimet in Paris, Mr. Baptiste has also taught at the Faculty of Archaeology of the Royal University of Cambodia in Phnom...
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ASEAN Integration: An Economic Community in 2015?
Economic integration, embodied in the Economic Community pillar of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is one of three key pillars that form the Roadmap for an ASEAN Community […]
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ASEAN Integration: An Economic Community in 2015?
Will ASEAN Economic Integration beat the clock? Even as the December 2015 deadline looms, the question remains tantalizingly open. On April 8, in Washington DC, The Asia Foundation presents “ASEAN […]
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In Laos: Land-linked, not Land-locked
With its GDP growing at an average of 6-7% annually since 2000, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a country on the move. Not very fast when compared […]