This paper provides the theoretical framework as well as the measures to be taken for the sustainable development of open and distance learning in Myanmar. In view to create a sustainable educational system that can generate a learning society capable of facing the challenges of the 21st century, the Ministry of Education, Union of Myanmar, has implemented many short-term and long-term educational programmes. The evenly balanced functional and effective process mechanisms implemented by open and distance learning as well as reinforced and strengthened by the e-education programmes, have indeed created and generated sustainable development in building capacity resources of the nation.