Consultations

The Engagement Process

The engagement process includes both face-to-face meetings and an online/web-based platform to enable participation by a wide range of stakeholders.

The engagement web page includes background materials that interested stakeholders can use to provide their input. These materials are available in Lao and English language.

Aside from face-to-face meetings, stakeholders can send their feedback and input by e-mail to the World Bank office in Vientiane, worldbanklaos@worldbank.org, or through the World Bank Lao PDR Facebook page.

The first round of engagements, which will focus on identifying opportunities and challenges and prioritizing the critical interventions to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity to feed into the SCD, will take place in February 2016. The first round of engagements will specifically seek to gain insight from stakeholders on the following questions:

• What are the opportunities and constraints for ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity?
• What are the most critical interventions for dealing with the identified constraints?
• How could the country sustainably maximize poverty reduction and improve the welfare of the poor and the less well off?

Definitions

• Extreme poverty: people living with less than 7,500 LAK (in current prices) per person per day
• Shared prosperity: emphasis on growth of income/consumption of the poorest 40% of the population

DOCUMENTS AND LINKS:

LAO PDR SCD ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY(PDF 883.46 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT(PDF 340.33 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - PRIVATE SECTOR(PDF 354.90 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - CIVIL SOCIETY(PDF 338.29 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS(PDF 340.12 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT CENTER ZONE(PDF 343.38 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NORTH ZONE A(PDF 355.80 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT NORTH ZONE B(PDF 354.95 KB)

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS - PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SOUTH ZONE(PDF 354.80 KB)

Lao PDR Engagement Plan

Online Survey

The second round of engagements, which is planned to take place from October 21 to November 17, 2016, will seek inputs on which development priorities the WBG should help address in Lao PDR in the next 5 years. Engagements for the second round will seek to gain insights from stakeholders on the following questions:

• In which areas do stakeholders see the WBG's support (either through financing, technical advice or policy dialogue), would have the biggest impact in promoting sustainable poverty reduction and shared prosperity from 2017-2021 in Lao PDR?
• Which areas do they view as being under-resourced by government and/or development partners in Lao PDR?
• Are there areas where they think the WBG should not engage in Lao PDR?

Documents and Links

LAO PDR CPF PPT(PDF 1.31 MB)

LAO PDR SCD SYNOPSIS(PDF 677.92 KB)