MoES scale up initiative in Lao PDR: a Fit for School orientation workshop for representatives from 18 provinces and 23 districts has been conducted by MoES, Department for Pre-school and Primary Education in September 2015. Stakeholders from the provincial and district education offices received an orientation on the Fit for School programme approach and visited a Fit for School model school in Vientiane. They will now set up 1-2 model schools in their respective provinces.