Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Health Sector Development Program

The successful implementation of HSDP is the result of ADB’s long-term commitment to the health sector in the Lao PDR. Long-term commitment and policy dialogue built on trust and confidence between ADB and MOH, and the government, in general. The SDP modality was proposed by ADB in 2007 for the Health System Development Project but MOH was not yet confident enough about the support of MOF. Policy dialogue continued and in 2009, MOH and MOF were ready for an SDP approach.