Stakeholders hope capacity building continues once programme ends
Officials, experts and beneficiaries of a Norwegian assistance programme hope target communities continue the capacity development founded by the project once the support ends. They expressed this desire at the closure of support provided by Norwegian Church Aid, which has been implemented in 11 provinces of Laos over the past 30 years valued at US$13 million. The NCA support has focused on socio-economic vulnerability, particularly on ethnic people in remote rural areas. The priority programmes have been drug demand and supply reduction, basic education, prevention of gender-based violence, mitigation of HIV/AIDS, climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as capacity building of local administrations, and faith based organisations such as Lao Buddhists for Development, in participatory community development.
