Investing in adolescent girls seen as key to sustainable development
The government needs greater investment in adolescent girls across all sectors, as this will yield a huge return oninvestment to Laos. Minister of Planning and Investment Dr Souphan Keomixay made the statement yesterday at a high-level forum titled “How Investing in Adolescent Girls Today Can Ensure Sustainable Development for Laos”. Resource from Vientiane Times Newspaper, Tuesday July 12, 2016 Untitled1
A call to action: Make the 2016 WHA the first achievement of the Decade of Action on nutrition
Nutrition Delegates adopted 2 resolutions on nutrition. The first, drawn up in response to the recently launched UN Decade of Action on Nutrition from 2016 to 2025, urges countries to make concrete policy and financial commitments to improve people’s diets, and report back regularly on those policies and investments. It calls on UN bodies to […]