Enhancing adaptive capacity
in Lao PDR provinces and building
resilient housing in vulnerable communities

The main objective of the project is to build climate resilience in vulnerable, poor communities in six provinces in Lao PDR through improving provincial adaptation capacity, and through building resilience in housing. The project will take a comprehensive approach to increase resilience in shelter and housing by working to improve and localise government adaptation systems as well as strengthening houses and community evacuation centers in selected vulnerable towns. This recognizes that there are many dimensions to building resilience in the housing sector, including policy, planning and regulation; capacity building; strengthening construction practices; and improving early warning and evacuation systems.

Lao PDR is experiencing climate change impacts both in the form of an increasing occurrence of extreme weather events, and also in changes in seasonal weather patterns. The most severe impacts result from floods, landslides, tropical storms, cyclones, and droughts. Impacts are borne in social, economic and environmental fields and include loss of life, population displacement, shelter destruction, and severe economic loss. It is estimated that 2.8% to 3.6% of Lao PDR’s annual GDP is lost due to floods alone. Essentially, climate change is having increasing adverse impacts on vulnerable communities and is hindering the achievement of development objectives.

• Project Title: Enhancing adaptive capacity in Lao PDR provinces, and building resilient housing in vulnerable communities
• Status: Project Under Implementation
• Geographic Coverage: Bokeo, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay, Khammouane, Champasak, and Attapeu Provinces
• Duration: Dec 2023 – Dec 2027
• Budget for UN-Habitat component: $7,323,750
• Partnership: Ministry of Public Works and Transport; Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; Ministry of Education; Provincial Departments of Public Works and Transport (+NPSEs) and Provincial Departments of Natural Resources and Environment in Bokeo, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay, Khammouane, Champasak and Attapeu Provinces
• Donor: The Adaptation Fund 
• Shortened Project Title: Resilient Housing