Lao People's Democratic Republic

This Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook provides the reader with an overview of disaster management structure, laws, and plans for the country. Information on culture, demographics, natural hazards, and infrastructure is discussed. Conditions

This paper examines the responses of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nation) member countries to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the limits of regional cooperation, as cross-border and multi-sector cooperation are essential components of

South-East Asia is regularly hit by droughts. Ready for the Dry Years offers a clear analysis of this subject, assessing prospects for the decades ahead and highlighting the principal risks. Though starting slowly, droughts can have devastating cumulative

This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998.

With this new submission, the Government of Lao PDR intends to report on the progress of the country’s contribution to the objectives of the Paris Agreement, and to bring forward enhanced action to strengthen Lao PDR’s response to climate threats.

Phase II of the “Building Capacities for Resilient Recovery” aims to better prepare governments to manage future recovery processes in an effective, sustainable and inclusive way.

This report presents the findings of a case study of Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) national social protection system, which sought to identify the factors that would enable that system to be responsive to shocks. The case study involved field

Using the Dartmouth Flood Observatory large flood data archive, this study aim s to assess the trend of flood occurrence in the Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) in 1985–2018, and quantify the associated impacts on humans. A differentiation that authors make