In each ADP World Vision takes an integrated approach to development by working across multiple sectors including Education, Food Security, Mother & Child Health, and Water & Sanitation. World Vision first partners with community leaders to identify those things that are keeping them in poverty and then works together toward sustainable solutions. Committees are established and given ownership of specific development activities, such as water management, health care, and livelihood programs. Program design and monitoring systems are developed alongside community members and local government. Full community participation is encouraged, especially among women, in the development process so that every community member can be empowered to continue their progress toward a better life long after World Vision’s departure. With children at heart, community self-sufficiency is the chief goal for World Vision’s ADPs. Today, World Vision is working to build the capacity of poor communities to identify and address their agricultural, education, economic, health and other essential needs, so that their children can be assured brighter futures. Funded by child sponsorship, today there are five World Vision ADPs implemented in Lao PDR. To learn more about child sponsorship, click here. To find out more about how World Vision works in local communities, click here. | 
