CO-508412

About this project

Lao socio-economic situation has grown and the government has opened up for domestic and foreign investment in various sectors suchas mining, hydro power, food processing and services. As a result, there was an increase in employment among enterprises, projects,and private service sectors, which require both domestic and foreign workers. Aligned with the increasing demands for labour forces, increasing in competition in labour markets and the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic, many workers have been affected and have to increase their efforts to recover their livelihoods, to seek secured jobs, access to fair and decent work. For this reason, the government should pay attention to exercising regulations in order to ensure that investor or business operators and workers comply the activities to policies related to employment, which will help reducing issues on labour exploitation, labour dispute, labour rights and protection. Therefore, the government needs to have measures and to promote and protect them. The majority of workers in the Lao PDRare from agricultural background, their knowledge and understanding of laws and regulations is limited, especially the knowledge oflabour management. This could result in a high risk of being exposed to labour exploitation. Because of that, the policy implementers must have a clear vision and action on social protection work, protecting the rights and interests of workers . Likewise, workers' organizations must increase their efforts to prote…

Published by

Oxfam Novib · International NGO

Countries

Laos

Sectors

Democratic participation and civil societyAgricultural policy and administrative management

Published by Oxfam Novib to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 12 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27108436-A-07106-02:LA.

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