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Disaster Management Reference Handbook - Lao PDR (February 2021)
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) is a land-locked, multi-ethnic, socialist state in Southeast Asia. It enjoys social stability, and there are no serious external threats to its political or economic existence. These conditions have allowed the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party to focus on reducing poverty via development and economic expansion. Since economic liberalization began in the 1980s, the economy has grown at greater than 6% annually,1 and poverty rates have fallen from 46% in 1993 to 18% in 2019. Still, more than 1 million Laotians live in poverty,2 and there is a high probability that many will slide back into poverty due to economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Green Climate Fund, the Vietnamese government, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are joining hands in a project to improve the resilience of coastal communities to climate change in Vietnam. Dao Xuan Lai, assistant resident representative, and team leader of Climate Change and Environment from the UNDP in Vietnam, told VIRâs Thanh Tung about the significant impacts the initiative has made for poor people in coastal communities up and down Vietnam.
Dao Xuan Lai, assistant resident representative, and team leader of Climate Change and Environment from the UNDP in Vietnam
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Stakeholders call for more transboundary cooperation to address disaster risk in the Koshi River basin
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Earlier this year, the South Asian floods of 2020 were declared a humanitarian crisis when millions across the subcontinent were impacted. Already reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, some 9.6 million people in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal were displaced or adversely affected by the monsoon floods. In the transboundary Koshi River basin, spread across China, India, and Nepal, the situation was equally grim this year with a number of landslides and an alert on potential glacial lake outburst risk from China to Nepal. Many of these disasters have major cascading impacts on downstream communities, affecting sustainable development in the basin.