ABSTRACT
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), donors committed USD 36.7 million to health in the Lao PDR in 2005, and USD 20.8 million in 2006 (Table 1). ese gures are in line with those published by the Government of the Lao PDR, which recorded disbursements of USD 36.6 million to health in nancial year 2005-2006 [3]. OECD lists 173 separate health or population “activities” (in OECD terminology) for Lao covering the period 2001-2006, with a median value of USD 0.23 million. In general, an “activity” signies allocation of funds to a specic project or programme. However, donors sometimes choose to report at a more detailed level, in
which case a “reported activity” may represent a component of a project. But there are also cases where activities are aggregated, so a single “reported activity” can be the sum of several activities.
