Financing for Development: Questions & Answers

The Q&As provide a quick introduction to UN Joint Programme on Financing Efficiency in Lao PDR.

The joint programme is working to strengthen the national architecture for managing and allocating development finance to support more efficient and effective use of available resources at a critical moment, in alignment with the 9th National Socio-Economic Development Plan. This is being done by supporting the development of a practical financing strategy to support implementation of the NSEDP in light of shocks; developing a context appropriate methodology to cost commitments made under the plan to support improved prioritization; developing an evidence-based approach to supporting budget allocations through a pilot in the health sector; and implementing an innovative budget tagging methodology that will allow actual spending to be tracked against priorities.