Vientiane Urban Infrastructure and Services Project

Difficult decentralization reforms will benefit from a systematic sector-wide approach to change. While building toward common reform agenda goals, several ADB initiatives toward decentralized urban governance were not adequately linked. This long process would have benefited from a comprehensive reform framework based on institutional, political, and economic imperatives and a clear sector road map. Actions have to be based on solid analysis and engineered to fit into a road map prepared in consultation with stakeholders, for example, a realistic time frame within the context of a medium-term fiscal framework.