The ADB provides comprehensive guidelines and checklists for mainstreaming gender into its supported projects and encourages the design of Gender Action Plans (GAPs) within them.
It also introduces a gender sustainability assessment as part of the feasibility studies and the evaluation and award of the proposals within the tendering process can take gender criteria established by the Evaluation Comittee into account.
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Since 2012 PPIAF has assisted the Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) to attract much needed private sector investment and participation into the country’s under-served highway network. The government identified a priority PPP highway project in 2012 with the PPIAF assistance, and recently decided to move the project forward as the first road PPP in the country.
The Government of Lao PDR acknowledges the poor state of public infrastructure and services in the country as being one of the main impediments to the nation achieving its economic growth and development objectives. Historically the provision of public infrastructure and services has to a large extent relied on Government budget and foreign development aid.
The Land Acquisition and Compensation Plan–Transmission Line (LACP-T/L) guides the Project on how to implement Land Acquisition and corresponding Compensation of Project Affected People (PAPs) along national and international standards, following the procedures developed in the Project’s Resettlement and Ethnic Development Plan (REDP).
This is a Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) of the Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF) Project that was approved on June 25, 2002, and ended on the extended closing date of September 30, 2011. Total estimated project costs, including one additional financing (AF), were US$34.34 million. Actual project costs were US$43.51 million, including US$2.37 million in counterpart funding from the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and US$7.27 co-financing from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Public Private Partnerships No. 624/GOV dated 21 December 2020 (“PPP Decree”) came into force on 28 January 2021. English version will be published on the Department of Investment Promotion website.
This document is the Policy Guideline on the Implementation of the Government Decree on Policy on Sustainable Hydropower Development (PSHD) in Lao PDR which was approved by the Prime Minister on 12 January 2015 (Decree Nº 02/GOL dated 12/1/2015). The Guideline aims to provide policy guidance to the agencies responsible for overseeing the implementation of investment projects in the hydropower sector as well as to inform and encourage project developers/investors to be aware of the Government policy toward achieving sustainable development in Lao PDR.