1. Investment in Skills and Labour Force for Human Development Round Table Implementation Meeting Pre-Consultation National Human Resource Development Strategy to October 2017 Ministry of Education and Sports

2. International, regional and domestic situations
National Human Resource Development Strategy to comprises of 5 chapters
Chapter
Description I
Introduction II
International, regional and domestic situations
III
Human Resource Development strategy to 2025 IV
Implementation V
Monitoring and Evaluation
Appendix

3. Chapter III: Human Resource Development strategy to 2025
1. Vision to 2030 “Developing human resource to be a strong production power that could respond to the sustainable socio-economic development as directing to industrialization and modernization, being able to integrate and compete with regional and international counterparts with quantity and quality, enables population to access to overall social services and upgrades betterment of living conditions”

4. Chapter III: Human Resource Development strategy to 2025 (Cont)
2. General goals
To achieve Human Asset Index (HAI) at 66 to graduate from the status of Least Developed Countries;
To achieve human resource development goal relating to the Sustainable Development Goals of UNDP particularly goals 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 16 out of 17 goals;
To ensure all Lao population complete lower secondary education;
Develop all Lao population to have:
Democratic morals
Wisdom
Health

5. Chapter III: Human Resource Development strategy to 2025 (Cont)
3. Strategic objectives
Increasing political ideology to all citizens depending on Socialist ideology
Capacitating and managing civil servants efficiently and effectively
Developing basic knowledge and occupational skills
Promoting healthcare to all citizens
Developing labour force and increasing productivity to respond to the need of labour market periodically
Preserving and promoting national culture values to all citizens

6. Chapter III: Human Resource Development strategy to 2025 (Cont)
Other strategies relating to human resource development:
1) Protect citizens from catastrophic risks causing from climate change, natural and man-made disasters;
2) Promote gender equality by upgrading roles of women in leading-managing positions and increase more participation of women in socio-economic development;
3) Promote regional and international cooperation relating to human resource development

7. Progression on implementation preparation and next steps

8. Progression on NHRDS to 2025 implementation preparation
Distributed the strategy to central and provincial level and line organizations during the National Education Reform meeting in 10 June 2016;
Completed the 5th National HRD Commission annual meeting in 27 December 2016;
Collecting Human Resource Development plan from sectors (currently, there are 8 organizations out of 30 submitted their HRD Plan);
Completed the establishment of the National HRD Commission (Renew) and the establishment of HRD Committee at central and provincial level.

9. Next steps
Disseminate the National HRD strategy to 2025 to related organizations (central and local level);
Continuously cooperate with the HRD committee on planning the budget for the activities that there are no available budget under the action plan (Appendix 1);
Establishing the M&E system (Appendix 2);
Producing the HR and labour force development plan
Cooperate with development partners, who support the human resource development domestically and internationally.

10. Recommendations Further financial and technical supports needed:
Budget planning for the activities that there are no available budget under the action plan (Appendix 1);
Establishing the M&E system (Appendix 2); and
Producing the HR and labour force development plan

11. Thank you very much