The 2nd  joint quarterly meeting for 2023 was organized by PAU on the 31 October 2023 at the LASES meeting room, The meeting was co-chaired by Mr. Ousavanh Thiengthepvongsa, Director General of SPRI, LASES , Dr. Sitthiroth Rasphone, Director General of the Development Research Institute, Ministry of Planing and Investment and Ms. Janneke Blomberg  represents the UNICEF Lao PDR. The meeting was participated by the members of the policy and data analysis units. The main objective of the meeting was to report the implementation of the last 3 quarters of 2023 (Q1 to Q3) and share key successes, challenges, lessons learned, and the activity plan for the last quarter of 2023. The meeting also presented the draft rolling workplan for 2024/2025,  NIPN sustainable plan as well as the draft research topics from both PAD and DAU to discuss.