2025
LAO PDR
Technical Assistance Missions
2025
Technical Assistance Missions
January 27 – 31: Public Financial Management - Chart of Accounts
| Sha Wen, CDOT Treasury Management Advisor, conducted a one-week technical assistance (TA) to the State Budget Department of the Lao P.D.R. for implementing the newly approved Chart of Accounts (CoA) for the 2026 budgeting process. The mission finalized the draft manual for the economic segment of the CoA and the cash-based International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) reporting templates as well as provided a training to the Accounting Regulatory Department (ARD) and State Budget Department (SBD), on the structure of the CoA’s economic segment and provided guidance on recording transactions of the complementary period and using other CoA segments to control unallocated funds. |
January 14 – 23: Monetary and FX Operations
| Giorgi Barbakadze, CDOT Monetary and FX Operations Advisor, conducted a one-week technical assistance mission as part of continued engagement with the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (BOL) to enhance its monetary operations framework and identify next steps to further improve BOL’s liquidity management, especially to respond to a structural liquidity deficit scenarios due to the ongoing Treasury Single Account (TSA) reform. |
