Thongsalith Mangnomek · Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Sports
Verified as of 2026-07-11Source
Ministry of Technology and Communicationsກະຊວງ ເຕັກໂນໂລຊີ ແລະ ການສື່ສານ
Ministry for technology, telecommunications and digital transformation, including the national digital economy development vision/strategy/plan and ICT licensing.
Named interventions currently running, announced, stalled or ended. A partner entering here joins one of these or explains why not.
GPE III: Learning and Equity Acceleration Project (LEAP)
World Bank-implemented project (P173407) to improve pre-primary and primary learning outcomes, teacher practices, and sector equity/accountability; US$47.4M IDA plus US$16.9M GPE grant, extended to May 2029.
Reach: National (pre-primary and primary subsectors); financing US$64.3M total per World Bank documents
BEQUAL (Basic Education Quality and Access in Lao PDR)
Australian Government-funded basic education program (managed by Tetra Tech International Development) working with MoES on curriculum, teacher training, learning resources and inclusive education; extended to June 2028.
Reach: 3.4M+ curriculum textbooks across 8,757 schools; 44,607 teachers/principals trained (grades 1-5), per program site
MoES national digital teaching and learning platform launched October 2021 with UNICEF, the EU and GPE, carrying the national curriculum plus national and international resources in Lao.
Education and Sports Sector Development Plan (ESSDP) 2026-20302026-2030
10th ESSDP, the current-cycle sector plan. Was in finalization as of the May 2025 GPE system capacity grant document (GPE assisting MoES to finalize); the national digital economy strategy is stated to inform it. No published final document surfaced in this crawl.
GPE partnership compact setting the priority reform agenda; its mid-term review is planned jointly with the ESSDP 2026-2030 MTR to inform a gender-sensitive ESSDP 2031-2035.
National Digital Economy Vision, Strategy and Development Plan2021-2040
Adopted December 2021 as a three-document stack: 20-Year Vision 2021-2040, 10-Year Strategy 2021-2030 (eight strategies including infrastructure, human resources and cyber security), and 5-Year Development Plan 2021-2025.