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Oxfam in Laos and SDC Announce Launch of Gender Inclusive Water Governance Project

On October 4, 2019, Oxfam in Laos celebrated the official launch of the Mekong River Water Governance (MRWGP) project, a collaboration between Oxfam and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – in partnership with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Gender...

Oxfam’s Partnership for Citizen Engagement (PACE) receives MOU approval

A new project to improve good governance at the Lao People’s Provincial Assembly Monday, July 8, 2019 Vientiane, Lao PDR - Oxfam and the National Assembly (NA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to implement the Partnership for Citizen Engagement (PACE) project in six provinces (...

Oxfam in Asia - Asia Resilience Hub - Statement: AMCDRR 2018

Oxfam Statement: Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2018 (AMCDRR 2018)

Asia could and must lead the world to a new era of shared prosperity by reducing disaster impacts, holding true to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 call to "Leave no one behind". Oxfam supports the 8th AMCDRR and aims to work side by side with ministers, organizations, and other actors...

Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in ASEAN Project

The Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (WEL in ASEAN) project was implemented to strengthen the capacity of WROs to be able to influence laws and policies for women’s economic leadership and empowerment in the formal and informal sectors of the...

EU-UXO Project: Changing Lives through Gender Action Learning System (GALS)

Meet Phone (right) and Thone (left). Phone and Thone are GALS champions living in Kohing and Huasing villages, respectively, in Houaphan province. During a gender participatory review with local GALS champions that took place from 26-30 August 2019, in Huaphan province, both women shared with us...

A group of young women from Thasommor Village

Small Enterprise for Big Dreams: A Pilot Initiative to Turn Passion into Economic Progress for Young Women in Laos

By Muksin Straker Cook | July 2019 In Laos, women face disadvantages in accessing economic opportunities, as poverty and wellbeing are highly gendered and associated with ethnicity, cultural norms and geography. Women generally occupy the lower rungs of the labour market and are more often excluded...