The Strategic Framework for National Sustainable Development Strategy for Lao PDR was prepared as a part of the process of developing a National Sustainable Development Strategy (NSDS). The document provides a conceptual framework for formulating Lao PDR’s National Sustainable Development Strategy. It aims to help the Lao PDR government to better integrate sustainable development principles into national and sectoral development planning. The four strategic goals identified in the framework are: sustainable economic development, sustainable social well-being and development, sustainable environment and natural resource management, and good governance.