Governing Major Infrastructure Projects in Laos: The Context of Front-End

For pursuing development goal, the governance of major infrastructure projects in Laos should be investigated from the front-end phase, it’s the first step to examine essential requirements and highlight both positive and negatively affect to the whole project. This research this research had explored the decision-making process, governance framework, assessment method, roles and responsibility of public infrastructure projects as the front-end governance context in Laos. Data from public documents and literature can be drawn a whole picture of front-end governance context, and case studies can provide us with a better understanding of real context (phenomenon). The synthesizing analysis can be explored the parties, roles and the staged-gated process of front-end decision for a better understanding of decision-making in major infrastructure projects