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Commons and shared governance – Developing sustainable joint management of urban ponds in Luang Prabang
Following the signature of a Programme agreement with Agence française de développement (AFD) in 2019, GRET began to consider a commons-based [Lire la suite]
Laos is continuing to expand its trade openness (entry into the WTO in January 2013) and its accessibility strategy to leave behind its status of isolated country and attract foreign investors (mining, hydroelectricity, plantations). On the international political scene, Laos hosted the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) with the slogan of “Friends for Peace, Partners for Prosperity.” A few weeks previously, the emerging civil society was authorized to organize the Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) with a slogan different from that of the official summit: “People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens for Citizens”—perhaps a first step toward giving civil society a larger role.
In 2012, GRET notably extended two drinking water supply support projects (MIREP for four years, and MADEVIE for one year).
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Bamboo and Rattan Project
Laos | 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020Development of multi-stakeholders and sustainable bamboo and rattan value chains in Lao PDR Houaphanh Province, in the north east of Laos, counts more than 526 000 hectares of natural bamboo forest. Recognizing the potential of bamboo exploitation, GRET has ...
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Bamboo Houaphan |A year to create an enabling environment for a service center and a national platform to develop the bamboo sector in Lao PDR.
Laos | 01/10/2015 - 31/12/2016Since 2011, the Houaphan bamboo project facilitates a multistakeholder learning process involving villagers, producers groups, private sector and authorities, combining the natural resource management and the business approach through policy dialogue. The proposed project builds on promising results of ...
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Evaluation du projet de création du Centre de Formation Professionnelle aux Métiers de l’eau à Vientiane (Laos)
Laos | 30/07/2012 - 10/11/2012Entre 2004 et 2008, la Société des Eaux de Vientiane (NPNL) a mis en place un centre de formation professionnelle pour l'eau potable et l'assainissement. Sous financement de l'AFD, ce projet visait à contribuer à l’amélioration de la ...
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Bambou - Houaphan |
Support to the implementation of the Houaphanh Provincial Bamboo Sector Development Strategy
Laos | 01/01/2011 - 30/09/2015The overall objective of the Project is that bamboo sector provides stable and sustainable incomes and employments, contributing to poverty alleviation and conserving forest functions and upland environment in Houaphan province. Thanks to the project, it is expected ...
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PADSR |Program to promote sustainable access to services and incomes for disadvantaged populations in three LDC Fragile States (Haïti, Laos, Mauritania)
Haiti, Laos, Mauritania | 01/01/2010 - 31/12/2012The project is located in three countries classified as Least Developed Countries and characterized as « fragile states »: Haiti (city of Port-au-Prince), Laos (Houaphan Province), and Mauritania (city of Nouakchott). Promote disadvantaged populations’ acce ...
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Madévie |
Maîtrise de la gestion et développement de l’accès à l’eau à Vientiane au Laos (en)
Laos | 01/07/2009 - 31/12/2013
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Ex-post Evaluation of the Tan Piao irrigated scheme development Project and the Decentralised Irrigation Management and Development Project – Laos
Laos | 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2009Gret was assess the progress of projects towards its state goals and defined indicators. This will lead to the identification of successes and constraints in order to draw up lessons and recommendations. Two separate reviews were be implemented: (1) The ...
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Project to Support the Establishment of an Eco-Tourism Development Strategy in Khammouane Province, Laos
Laos | 01/01/2009 - 30/06/2013GRET was commissioned to conduct a feasibility study on the eco-tourism development strategy in Khammouane Province, Laos. This study aimed to accompany public policies in Khammouane Province in the framework of decentralized cooperation. ...
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Mid-Term Review of the technical Assistance project for the irrigated Agriculture Subsector -– Laos
Laos | 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2009The project aimed to support the Department of Irrigation to review its strategy. The main objective was to confirm the understanding of MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) and Afd about the project objectives and activities as its ...
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SHSP TA |
Technical Assistance to Support to Health Sector Project in Lao PDR
Laos | 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2012This technical assistance is running since september 2008 in partnership with the Swiss Red Cross and the Lao Consulting Group with the objective of supporting the Ministry of Health in the implementation of a support to health sector ...
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Following the success of the inaugural Regional Land Forum in Hanoi in 2016, the Second Regional Land Forum was held from 28-30th May, 2018, in Bangkok. The Regional Land Forum aims to provide a multi-stakeholder platform for networking ...
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Chapitre d'ouvrage disponible à la vente sur le site des Éditions Quæ Au cours des dix dernières années, le Cirad et l’AFD ont conduit des expériences de transition agro-écologique avec les producteurs, chercheurs, professionnels du développement et décideurs ...
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Des filières durables de bambou dans la province de Houaphan au Laos
Mise en place d'un projet de développement économique par une gestion forestière durable des bambouseraies
| La Garance Voyageuse | 2018 | 122
La province de Houaphan au Nord est du Laos est une région forestière où une grande diversité de bambou pousse naturellement. Le bambou représente un revenu secondaire non négligeable dans l'économie des familles rurales et paysannes. Les filières ...
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Adding values to agriculture : a vision and roadmap for sustainable development in the Lao Uplands
| The Lao Uplands Initiative | 2018
This document summarizes the main results of the Lao Uplands Initiative, a knowledge capitalization process that took place over a six-month period under the umbrella of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lao PDR. As the ...
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On the 1 – 3 of October 2018, over 65 participants from Cambodia, Laos, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and from different background (Government agencies, Research Institutes, Universities, Development practitioners and private sector) gathered at the Vansana Riverside Hotel ...
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This practical guide is written based on the experience of a six-years project, conducted with the support of GRET in the northern mountains of Houaphan province, Lao PDR, in close with the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry. ...
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Processus d’apprentissage collectif et dynamique des communs
Filière bambou dans les montagnes du Nord Laos
| 2016/10
Cet article se fonde sur une expérience récente du développement de filières commerciales approvisionnées par des forêts naturelles de bambou dans les montagnes de la province nord de Huaphan, au Laos. Il illustre comment, dans un régime centralisé ...
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Financer les services essentiels des villes du Sud : quelle équation socio-politique ?
Partage du coût global de long terme du service d’eau potable de Vientiane (Laos)
| Gret | 2016/04 | Études et travaux en ligne | 44
Cette étude est consacrée aux questions de gouvernance urbaine au Sud, traitée sous l’angle du financement des services d’eau potable. En s’appuyant sur le cas de la Société des Eaux de Vientiane au Laos, elle vise à comprendre ...
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Proceedings of the national workshop on agroecology transition, 2nd and 3rd, June 2016, Vientiane, Lao PDR
| Gret, Cirad, Actae | 2016
The 2 days’ workshop has been very intense and very fruitful paving the way to some common principles, common understanding and common expectations about agroecology. There are still some works to do in order to define in an encompassing way ...
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The development of the green value chains contributes to improve livelihoods and to preserve biodiversity for the improvement of the forest cover. The sustainable management of the bamboo and rattan forest is contributing to the National Forest strategy ...
Enseignement/recherche
Centre de recherche forestier de l’Institut national de recherche sur l’agriculture et les forêts (FRC/NAFRI).
Institutions publiques et collectivités locales
Ministère de la Santé, Ministère des travaux publics et des transports, Département de l’Habitat et de la Planification Urbaine (DHPU), Agence de régulation de l’eau potable (Arep) et division de l’Eau potable, Province de Houaphanh, Province de Khammouane, Province de Vientiane, Province de Bolikhamxay, Province de Sayabouri, Capitale Vientiane, Société des Eaux de la capitale de Vientiane (NamPapa Nakhone Luang - NPNL).
Opérateurs/ONG/Bureaux d’études
Croix Rouge suisse, Lao Consulting Group (LCG), Bureau d’études Lao (BEL), SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Tétraktys, Energie Sans Frontière, Aquassistance
Collectifs et Réseaux
INGO Forum (60 ONG internationales intervenant au Laos), sous-groupes de travail (technical working group) dans les secteurs de la santé, de l’eau (Lao WASH TWG), et des questions foncières
