The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a partner country of German development cooperation. Since 1993, GTZ has worked in Laos on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). During this time, GTZ has supported its Lao partners in conducting formal and non-formal vocational training, in training young forestry personnel, in developing health systems, in combating drug abuse and has provided consultancy on developing a market economy.

The Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic have agreed to concentrate their development cooperation on the priority areas of sustainable economic development on the one hand, and environmental policy, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources on the other.

In order to use human and financial resources more efficiently, existing individual projects were amalgamated into two programmes: 

• a programme for development of human resources while establishing a market economy 
• a programme for integrated rural development of the country’s northern mountainous regions

Both programmes attempt to recruit as many national specialists as possible from the public and private sectors. 
In addition, GTZ implements programmes for these international organisations:

• Mekong River Commission (MRC) 
• EU

Downloads

• Integrated rural development in mountainous areas of the Lao PDR (RDMA)
  A short description of the programme, ‘Integrated rural development in mountainous areas’.
  en-rural-development-mountainous-areas-laos.pdf, 0.13 MB (English)
• Land management and registration project (LMRP)
  A short description of the ‘Land management and registration’ programme
  en-land-management-registration-project-laos.pdf, 0.14 MB (English)
• Integrated rural development in poverty regions of the Lao PDR (NU-IRDP)
  A short description of the programme, ‘Integrated rural development in poverty regions in Laos’
  en-rural-development-poverty-regions-laos.pdf, 0.13 MB (English)
• Enterprise Baseline Survey 2005
  Report of the Lao-German Resource Development for Market Economy Programme
  Volume 1; Main Report. 2nd edition.
  en-laos-enterprise-baseline-survey-2005.pdf, 1.58 MB (English)
• Enterprise Baseline Survey 2007
  Report of the Lao-German Resource Development for Market Economy Programme
  Volume 1; Main Report. 1st edition.
  en-laos-enterprise-baseline-survey-2007.pdf, 1.31 MB (English)
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