Across maternal & child #health, local governance, health security, malaria & HIV USAID has been a steadfast partner improving lives in 🇱🇦 Pleased to welcome Mike McCord, USAID's new Country Rep & team for a productive meeting. Together, we'll achieve even greater impact! 💪

#LaoPDR: On 27-29 Aug, UN Human Rights Asia together w/ UN Environment Programme Asia Pacific hold a workshop for provincial Govt officials on the right to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment to increase their capacity to prevent & redress the adverse impact on human rights, caused by environmental

#HappeningNow celebrating Lao PDR joining the global school meals coalition! Congratulations!

#HappeningNow: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phout Simmalavong signs #Laos up as 101st member of the School Meals Coalition Coalition. Congratulations, I am delighted to witness such an important event! 🎉🎊 20+ years of cooperating for #SchoolMeals, where 1 USD of investment returns up to 8 USD.

🔊#Lao PDR🇱🇦 has just joined School Meals Coalition Coalition! 🎊A warm welcome! Very excited you've taken a significant step🎢 ⏭️To bolster partnerships ⏭️Extend school meals ⏭️Buy food locally ⏭️Improve nutrition ⏭️Keep girls in school📚🧑‍🎓 Dept. of Agriculture GermanForeignOffice Marc-André Prost Lao PDR at the UN

Today Lao PDR 🇱🇦 joins the global School Meals Coalition 🍲 becoming its 101st Member State: A great back-to-school present for 👧🏻🧒🏻 returning to classrooms this week. Congrats to School Meals Coalition, WFP and partners including 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇫🇮 and 🇺🇳 members (FAO, IFAD, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO)

Félicitations au 🇱🇦 qui rejoint la Coalition mondiale pour l’alimentation scolaire. La 🇫🇷 a accueilli la 1ère réunion à Paris en octobre dernier. Le 🇱🇦 est un pays prioritaire de notre feuille de route sur la nutrition. Soutien🇫🇷 à hauteur de 3,3M€ via World Food Programme depuis 2019.

Pleasure meeting Amb. Remco van Wijngaarden of the Netherlands to 🇹🇭 🇰🇭 🇱🇦 on his visit to Vientiane last week: The Netherlands 🇳🇱 is a great supporter of the UN development system, contributing much needed regular funding to 🇺🇳 organizations, funds and programmes #Bedankt 🙏🏼

The impacts of Typhoon Yagi are creating significant flooding across northern 🇱🇦, posing a number of #health risks Key health advice📌👇here: facebook.com/WHOLaos WHO is assisting MOH w/ emergency response, #WASH & risk communications + is standing by to support as required

UN in Lao PDR, country team & humanitarian agencies ready to support gov efforts 🤝 as we face the impacts of Typhoon Yagi & the rising level of the Mekong River across Laos 🇱🇦 See the flood safety precautions in the images below & stay alert to protect yourself & your loved ones.

As waters remain high, World Health Organization (WHO) response & recovery efforts are underway. Proud of team support: 🥤Safe water treatment in Luang Namtha/Vientiane 🫙Hundreds of water containers ‼️Emergency response efforts 📢Health education/outreach in above & LPB Thnx to WHO & USAID support

Great pleasure to welcome David McLachlan-Karr, UNDCO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific to Lao PDR: We had a full day of meetings with 🇱🇦 Government and Development Partners today to discuss 🇺🇳 Development System reform and partnerships 🤝 for sustainable results #GlobalGoals 🌏

🌀#TyphoonYagi, originating in the Philippines, swept through the region, causing severe flooding, widespread infrastructure damage, and significant displacement and loss of life. 👇🏼7 days rainfall accumulation & people affected within the region. ↘️reliefweb.int/map/viet-nam/t…

#Floods around #Laos are displacing thousands of people. World Food Programme is working on getting food to the people in the areas affected worst. #Climatechange Bakhodir Burkhanov WFP Asia Pacific LuxDev Ireland in Vietnam 🇮🇪 Australian Embassy in Laos USAID Asia

Today's Gender Working Group (#GWG) meeting, co-chaired by UNFPA Lao PDR and @ADBLaoPDR, focused on Beijing+30 National Review, 3rd ASEAN Women Leaders’ Summit, 89th CEDAW session, kNOwVAWdata,preparations for #16Days,followed by extensive deliberations & insights on way forward.

My solidarity with everyone who’s been affected by the devastating Typhoon Yagi in Southeast Asia, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of people. As weather extremes become more frequent & severe, our world cannot afford more #ClimateAction delays or back-tracking.

Great story of timely action and people’s resilience by Simon Nazer! UNICEF Laos UN in Lao PDR Bakhodir Burkhanov

Grateful to UNFPA Lao PDR and Asian Development Bank 🇱🇦 for convening the Gender Working Group #GWG meeting, with a focus, among other topics, on #flood response under #Protection cluster: Humanitarian, NGO and UN partners are working together to support women and children following #TyphoonYagi

“Show the world what we can do, when we work together.” – António Guterres urges countries to demonstrate a spirit of compromise ahead of upcoming Summit of the Future and #UNGA high-level week. news.un.org/en/story/2024/… #OurCommonFuture

Association of People Living with HIV (APL+) provides HIV awareness / support to communities. Hearing about their hard work and the stories of people losing their lives due to stigma and lack of access to HIV services is heartbreaking. We must do better to support PLHIV