LAOS - Study & Development for a project focusing on environmental justice

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

-Baruch Spinoza

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"Nothing is self-evident. Nothing is given. Everything is built."

-Gaston Bachelard

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"If you think like me, you are my brother. If you don't think like me, you are my brother twice over because you open me up to a new world."

-Amadou Hampâté Bâ

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"The essential is always threatened by the insignificant."

-René Char

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"We must always try to understand our fellow man. If we exist, we must admit that he too, exists."

-Amadou Hampâté Bâ

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"The real sometimes quenches hope’s thirst. That is why, against all odds, hope survives."

-René Char

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"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"Listen carefully, we used to say in old Africa, everything speaks, everything is word, everything tries to communicate knowledge to us."

-Amadou Hampâté Bâ

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"The simplifying modes of knowledge mutilate more than they express the realities or the phenomena they give an account of."

-Edgar Morin

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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

-Charles Mingus

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"When you do something, know that you will have against you those who would like to do the same thing, those who would like to do the opposite, and the vast majority of those who would not do anything."

-Confucius

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"There is no simple, there is simplification. The simple is always simplified."

-Gaston Bachelard

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"The disease is not cured by saying the name of the medicine, but by taking the medicine."

-Thomas Sankara

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"Be ever vigilant, hold government accountable, struggle for peace and justice."

-Nelson Mandela

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Feasibility study & Program Development for an Institutional Support Project on Environmental Justice in Laos

INANGA & our consultants provided technical assistance to the Agence Française de Développement in carrying out a feasibility study & project development in Laos.

Our client in this project was the French development agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

To learn more about the AFD, you can visit their homepage here.

About this project

This study took place from June - December 2021. The Lao People's Democratic Republic is particularly vulnerable to climate change and support is needed to ensure the effective implementation of measures to address climate and environmental issues. The study explored the following areas:

Identification of support needs for environmental and climate justice
Analysis of the actors likely to have an impact on the application of measures relating to environmental and climate issues at the national and international levels
Propositions for the governance methods of the future project and the means necessary to guarantee its visibility
Activities, results, budget programming and time framing.

This assignment was done with a budget of 40.000 EUR.

Experts

Our team within this project consisted of:

Julien Moriceau - Team leader and justice expert and INANGA co-managing partner.
Ladislas de Coster - Backstopping expert INANGA co-managing partner. His areas of expertise include security sector reform, transitional justice, human rights, institutional support.
Baptiste Gerbier - Expert in project development and budgeting and consultant for INANGA. His areas of expertise include economic development and legal/institutional issues related to climate and energy.
Manoëlle Koninckx - Junior environmental justice expert. Her areas of expertise include human rights, sustainable development, environmental justice, gender analysis.

Email: contact@inanga.org

Address: Chemin du Cyclotron 6

1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium

Photographs courtesy of @RosalieColfs

@HandicapInternational

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

"Nothing is self-evident. Nothing is given. Everything is built."

"If you think like me, you are my brother. If you don't think like me, you are my brother twice over because you open me up to a new world."

"The essential is always threatened by the insignificant."

"We must always try to understand our fellow man. If we exist, we must admit that he too, exists."

"The real sometimes quenches hope’s thirst. That is why, against all odds, hope survives."

"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."

"Listen carefully, we used to say in old Africa, everything speaks, everything is word, everything tries to communicate knowledge to us."

"The simplifying modes of knowledge mutilate more than they express the realities or the phenomena they give an account of."

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

"When you do something, know that you will have against you those who would like to do the same thing, those who would like to do the opposite, and the vast majority of those who would not do anything."

"There is no simple, there is simplification. The simple is always simplified."

"The disease is not cured by saying the name of the medicine, but by taking the medicine."

"Be ever vigilant, hold government accountable, struggle for peace and justice."

Feasibility study & Program Development for an Institutional Support Project on Environmental Justice in Laos

INANGA & our consultants provided technical assistance to the Agence Française de Développement in carrying out a feasibility study & project development in Laos.

About this project

Experts