Laos, officially the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), is a rapidly growing developing economy at the heart of Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma, Cambodia, China, Thailand, and Vietnam. Laos’ economic growth over the last decade averaged just below eight percent, placing Laos amongst the fastest growing economies in the world.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2019Laos
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A Manual for Investors and RAI Practitioners (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesJune, 2023LaosThis handbook explains investors the necessity of company-based grievance redress mechanisms and how to establish them in order to manage the concerns and grievances of their workers, affected local communities and other stakeholders.
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A Manual for Investors and RAI Practitioners (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesJune, 2023LaosThis manual provides practical guides and tools for effective and inclusive engagement with affected communities in different stages and processes throughout the investment cycles from planning, operation and closing.
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A Guide for Investors and RAI Practitioners (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesJune, 2023LaosThis guides provides steps that investors have to take to establish an agricultural and forestry investment in Laos, and the key processes involved e.g. land acquisition and clearing, labour, import and export in the investment operation, and social and environmental rehabilitation in the closure phase.
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A Guide for Investors and RAI Practitioners (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesJune, 2023LaosThis guide aims to help investors identify the impacts and mitigation measures to minimize the impacts of the proposed investments in the agricultural and forestry sector in Laos. Further, the document provides guides on measures for environmental and social safeguards throughout the investment cycles.
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A Handbook for Communities and RAI Practitioners (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesJune, 2023LaosThis handbook aims to help local communities affected by an investment to access a company-based grievance mechanism, official government conflict resolution mechanisms or village-level mediation when they feel that investors violate their rights or have a concern about the investment operation in their regions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJuly, 2023Africa
La Revue annuelle de l’efficacité du développement (ADER) sert de point de référence pour évaluer les progrès réalisés par le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement dans sa contribution au développement de l’Afrique.
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A Story of Change about a tapioca processing plant in Bolikhan District, Bolikhamxai Province
Manuals & GuidelinesJuly, 2023LaosThe livelihood of a large part of the world’s population depends directly on access to land and its secure longterm use. Land access and use have long been organized through informal or traditional tenure rights, but this is changing. In many regions, land use is being transformed by the expansion of large-scale agricultural investments, a development that was triggered by the 2007–08 food, energy, and financial crises.
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Manual for Government Officials, Executive Summary (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesMay, 2023EthiopiaThis publication aims to provide practical guidance for government officials in improving their skills related to agriculture extension service provisions to large-scale agricultural investments. It is meant to be used along with the full version of the manual as well as with the RGIL “Introductory Manual on responsible land-based investments for Governments”.
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A Manual for Communities (2023)
Manuals & GuidelinesMay, 2023EthiopiaThis manual is aimed at communities in Ethiopia and provides guidance on what they can do to prevent and minimize conflicts with investors or to resolve them to their satisfaction.
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