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Around the world Lao PDR Sustainable Development Goals Our focus more Blogs Championing the voices of Lao’s Ethnic Minorities In the early days, as she began to learn about the job, that lack of confidence lingered. But as she watched other volunteers at work, she soon began to realize how she too might be able to use her knowledge, to support the community radio network. Read more Publication TACKLING SOCIAL NORMS: a game changer for gender inequalities The analysis reveals that, despite decades of progress closing the equality gap between men and women, close to 90 percent of men and women hold some sort of bias against women, providing new clues to the invisible barriers women face in achieving equality. Read more SDGs UN launches world’s biggest survey of public opinion on climate change Mission 1.5 aims to give 20 million people around the world the opportunity to have their say on ways to limit climate change that they want to see adopted by government leaders. The campaign, led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), hopes to address the disconnect between citizens and governments that has seen a groundswell of public opinion by citizens around the world, including school strikes and mass protests. Read more Blogs How we’re trying to deal with waste management in Vientiane It is a short drive, about 20 minutes, from the city center of Vientiane to its suburb, in Xaythany district. As the population and traffic drop away, one might expect to see greener, cleaner neighbourhoods. But in fact, the opposite is true. Now city officials are grappling with how to combat a growing garbage problem. Read more and download SDGs Local Solutions for a cleaner city and home "Burning of solid waste is polluting the air while also destroying reusable resources" Watch now Blogs Taking A Further Step Together While the rest of the world signed on to the ambitious plan of achieving 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the small land-locked country of Lao PDR took it a step further. Read more Step into the reality of a UXO clearance team Sounds of an aircraft. A white screen. Bombs floating down to earth around a hand-drawn image of a tree. The tree and the surrounding hills are gaining in colour, slowly coming alive with people, and we are on top of a breezy hill, in North-Eastern Laos, Xieng Khouang Province. The tree is in front of us, but as we turn, we hear the whistling sound of metal detectors and find ourselves in the midst of a team of UXO clearance technicians. UXO. Unexploded ordnance. They are all around us. Our work through photos Experience the impact UNDP's work on the people of Lao PDR through engaging photo stories on our Exposure page. Witness the beauty of Laos and the smile of its gentle people while learning more about our initiatives. Our work through videos See how UNDP puts its prowess into practice in Lao PDR by exploring the videos that cover our work on our YouTube page. Discover what projects we are undertaking and what causes we are promoting through our campaigns. What we do UNDP supports the Government of Lao PDR through a partnership approach, engaging with development partners, civil society and the private sector, in order to address development challenges. UNDP Lao PDR provides technical expertise and policy advice to the Government to implement national strategies and plans, and to localise the Sustainable Development Goals. 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