Laos: who governs education

3 government bodies, 2 named officials, 5 programmes and 4 policies, from the ministries' own sites.

Last mined 2026-08-02.

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BOMAtlas indexes 9 research institutions in Laos from the Research Organization Registry.

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Government bodies

The ministries, regulators and funds that hold the mandate, with the office holder where we could verify one.

Ministry of Education and Sportsກະຊວງສຶກສາທິການ ແລະ ກິລາ

National ministry for all levels of education (pre-primary through higher and non-formal) and sports in Lao PDR.

Thongsalith Mangnomek · Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Sports
Verified as of 2026-07-11 Source

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.

Boviengkham Vongdara · Minister of Technology and Communications
Verified as of 2025-08-05 Source

Research Institute for Educational Sciencesສະຖາບັນຄົ້ນຄວ້າວິທິຍາສາດການສຶກສາ

MoES research institute for educational sciences; curriculum and education research arm listed on the ministry's own site.

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Programmes

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

active As of 2026-07-31 Source

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

active As of 2026-07-31 Source

Learning Passport Lao PDR

UNICEF Learning Passport digital learning platform instance for Laos, linked directly from the MoES homepage.

active As of 2026-07-31 Source

LESMIS (education and sports management information system)

The ministry's live EMIS platform; data-entry portal linked from the MoES homepage.

active As of 2026-07-31 Source

Khang Panya Lao

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.

active As of 2021-10 Source

Policies and plans

The strategy documents in force. These are what an intervention has to be written into.

Education and Sports Sector Development Plan (ESSDP) 2021-20252021-2025

9th sector plan covering all education subsectors; the completed predecessor cycle.

As of 2026-07-31 Source

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.

As of 2026-07-31 Source

Lao PDR GPE Partnership Compact2024-

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.

As of 2026-07-31 Source

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.

As of 2021-12 Source