Transcript Presentation NGO Forum - Cambodia Research Group

FUTURE PROSPECTS OF LOCAL NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION IN CAMBODIA:
Moving Beyond aid and the Relevance of Social
Entrepreneurship
Cambodia Research
CJCC, Phnom Penh
24 March 2011
Chhith Sam Ath, Executive Director,
The NGO Forum on Cambodia
[email protected]
Outline of Presentation
What is Civil Society in Cambodia? Five categories
What are the roles of Civil Society?
In what sectors are NGOs active?
Trends of local and international NGOs
Funding and Contribution
Challenges face by CSOs/NGOs
Future prospects and trends of local NGOs
NGOs and Associations Law
Funding sources and its challenges
Future prospective on funding and effectiveness
Introduction to the NGO Forum
Conclusions
What is Civil Society?
Five categories of civil society
Organizations
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Traditional Associations/religion
groups frequently linked to pagodas
(1,111 association registered).
Community based organisations,
village development committees, women,
youth, farmer groups etc.
Non-Governmental Organisations,
1,564 registered local NGOs (450 active)
and 316 International NGOs
Trade Unions, 370 trade unions by
August 2005
Other, think tanks, business associations,
etc
Functions of Civil Society
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Check, monitoring and restraining the
government’s exercise of powerAdvocating for changes- demanding
accountability
Training and empowering community
and broad sectors in human rights
Serving as channels by which ideas,
concerns, demands of affected people can
reach decision makers
Serving as school of democracy and
human rights- fostering democratic
culture and social capital
What are the roles of Civil Society?
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Channel for service delivery where
governments are unable or unwilling to
provide basic social services
Facilitator of dialogue and negotiation
Social conscience – holding authorities
accountable for their actions,
Corrective – campaigning against abuses
of power and for the protection and
promotion of Human Rights
Source of policy advice - e.g. for peace
building or poverty reduction
In what sectors are NGOs active ?
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CSOs/NGOs significantly contribute to
social and economic development in
Cambodia.
Important sectors are:
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Health & Education
Governance & Administration
Community, social development
Rural Development & Land Management
Environment & Conservation
Agriculture
Gender
etc.
NGO disbursements exceeded USD 203
million in 2009
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Development Partner contribution
Key Challenges faced by CSO/NGOs
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Limited technical capacity, notably in
relation to management and governance
Lack of recognition for represented in
dialogue with Gov’t and DPs
Difficulties in accessing relevant
information
Lack of long term, sustainable funding
Uncoordinated demands from donors
Lack of coordination, overlapping
catchments and project
Limited democracy space for dialogue
with Gov’t and DP
Concern over the draft law on NGOs and
Associations
Issues of development aid and its
effectiveness: Future prospects and trends of
local NGOs
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CSOs/NGOs depend on donor findings
Donor driven toward ownership of NGOs and
community people
Good governance among the sector need to be
improved
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(16 of 3,000 NGOs registers as NGO good
practices)
Localization process
 International to local NGOs
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NGO project/s to community based
organization (empowerment)
Continue
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Rehabilitation, reconstruction, development
(service delivery) and advocacy
Emerging trend of social entrepreneurship
toward self-reliance is still limited.
Community mobilization to protect their
rights and interest.
Update on the NGOs and Associations
Law
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Since late 2008, NGO Forum has worked very hard on
this issue by strongly coordinating with CCC, MEDiCAM
and CHRAC.
A joint statement was issued in mid 2010 asking RGC
to: 1) release the draft law, 2) allow resource persons
from ministries to attend NGO hosted consultations, 3)
seek meaningful and series consultations.
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Our collective efforts have resulted in:
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the draft was shared by MoI on 15 Dec. 2010
National Consultation was postponed from December 28th
to 10th Jan 2011.
Most of the NGO/CSO concerns and comments were
heard by the MoI and MFA and the public with the hope
that these be reflected/incorporated in the second
draft.
NGO and MOI representatives will meet on 29th March
to discuss on the second draft.
Funding mobilization and Soruces
for NGOs/CSOs
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Funding mobilization and sources
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Provide training, evaluation, assessment etc.
Provide catering services
Generate income from the credit and savings
project
Member contribution and support
Renting meeting and workshop room etc.
From core fund (churches, and other NGOs)
Development partners
Other from individual
Challenges for fund mobilization
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Key Challenges
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Lack of clear plan and implementation for the
sustainable of the organizations
No clear resources diversification strategy
Lack of initiative toward social
entrepreneurship
Less donors who have a long-term supports
Confusion of profits and non-profits
organization.
Idea of commercialization of the NGOs is
limited.
Future prospective on funding and
effectiveness
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CSO/NGOs need to coordinate planning,
funding, implementation and evaluation
Improved internal governance system
Continue to have strong coordinating
among NGOs to have a strong voice
(advocacy)
Improve quality of the programme -research and evident based advocacy.
Improve technical capacity to be effective
engage with the gov’t and DP.
Introduction of the NGO Forum on
Cambodia
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The NGO Forum on Cambodia is a membership
organisation for 87 local and international
NGOs
It exists for information sharing, debate and
advocacy on priority issues affecting
Cambodia’s development.
The NGO Forums seeks for pro-poor policies, fair
and just benefits from the development and
good governance.
NGO Forum facilitates and maintains the
activities of 11 NGO networks/Fora.
NGO Forum wishes to engage constructively
with all development stakeholders
NGO Forum has four programs: Core;
Development Issues; Land & Livelihoods;
Environment
NGO Forum’s networks/forum
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River Coalition in Cambodia (RCC)
Environment Core team (ECT)
Pesticide Reduction Network (PRN)
Economic Development Network (EDN)
Development Policy Forum
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Aid Effectiveness
Budget Monitoring
Land Action Network for Development
(LAND)
Forestry and Plantations Network (FPN)
Indigenous Minority Rights network
Resettlement Action Network (RAN)
Community
NGO
Community
Community
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Community
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Community
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Community
NGO
NGO
NGO Forum membership
NGO Network
Management
Committee
NGO Network
Project Officer
Project Officer
Program Manag.
Program Manag.
Admin/Finance
Dep. Exec. Dir.
NGO Forum office
Exec Director
NGO Forum
Through the NGO Forum, NGOs are coordinated
and able to speak with one voice to:
Regional/International Advocacy
Campaigns
Government
Donors,
Embassies,
Aid Agencies
Community
Development Issue’s Framework
•All NGO Sector/Group
•Monitor NSDP, JMIs,
Priority Development
Agenda
Development Issues
Forum
PFM, EI revenue
Management
Economic
Development
Network
Aid
Aid Effectiveness
Effectiveness
Working Group
Working
Group
Aid alignment, transparency,
accountability,
accountability, development
development
effectiveness
Budget
Budget Monitoring
Monitoring
WG
WG
Budget transparency,
credibility, PFM monitoring
Conclusion
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CSOs/NGOs have significantly contribute to
economic and social development in Cambodia.
For sustainability of their funding, CSOs/NGOs
need to have a long term planning.
Coordination among the CSOs/NGOs is
important to ensure effectiveness.
Building capacity of the community is an
importance for NGOs that need to be
considered.
Democracy space is an important for
CSOs/NGOs to ensure effective development.
Social entrepreneurship is a movement toward
self-reliance.
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