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“Partnership Arrangement and
Means of Implementation on post-2015
Cambodia Development Agenda”
23 May 2014
Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh
By: Soeung Saroeun, ED, CCC
Vision: A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges
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Outline of Presentation
First Round Consultations: CSOs’
Perspectives on Cambodia Development
Framework Beyond 2015
2 regional consultations
• Battambang
• Kampong Cham
• 1 national consultation
Key Identified Priority Issues
1. Social Inclusion and Human Development
2. Inclusive Economic Development
3. NRM and Ecological Development
4. Good governance and Inclusive
Partnership
5. Human Rights to Development
Related Post 2015 Advocacy Campaigns
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HLP in March at Bali-Indonesia 2013
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CSO meeting in March in BONN/Germany 2013
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CSOs Inputs to NSDP of RGC
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Inputs DPs, including UN agencies in country and UN
Assembly in NY 2013
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Beyond 2015 consultations process (Pretoria, Bali,
Pattaya, BKK)
Second Round Consultations:
Partnership Arrangement and
Means of Implementation on Post
2015 Development Agenda
Two regional consultations in Siem
Reap and Kratie
Current Partnership
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NGO networks were established by CSOs in Cambodia-CCC,
NGO Forum, MEDICAM, HACC, CBOs and other networks.
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Aid Effectiveness: 19 Technical Working Groups, GDCC, and
CDCF, draft DCPS 2014 - 2018
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Project based engagement: e.g Social Accountability WG, GBV
WG, etc
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DPs-UN, EU, WB, ADB provide spaces for CSOs to contribute
formulations related to development strategies/policies;
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CSO- local administration partnership – commune investment
plan, new organic laws, etc.
Areas to Be Improved
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Limited information sharing to and amongst different
development actors;
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CSO Consortium for joint proposal to address the needs of
citizens;
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Partnership and information sharing between CSO and
Government;
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Quality and well functions of TWGs and GDCC and CDCF;
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Draft DCPS limited the roles of CSOs in engaging with
government only support service delivery and humanitarian
assistance;
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Sub-national working groups and other related structures
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Triangle partnership (Government, CSO, Business)
Appropriate Policy Initiatives
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A policy that guide partnership among civil society, private
sector , development partners and government;
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Ensure a policy and regulation that enables CSOs to fulfill its
potentials as a development partner;
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Contextualizing Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS);
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Establishing national funds for CSOs – government budget and
contribution from business sector (CSR)
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Adapting tools/system for promoting the transparency and
accountability (EITI, AITI, and Open Government Partnership –
OGP);
Involvement of CSOs in the Implementation
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Partnering with government in formulating relevant national
and sub-national policies and regulations;
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Providing and improving the quality of public services;
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Advocating the government to apply their policies and respond
to the needs of citizens;
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Monitoring and providing constructive feedback on the
performance of government, business, and development
partners;
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Monitoring on national budget, management of other national
revenue;
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Empowering community to participate in their development
process and exercise their rights.
Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation
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A joint committee and allowing representatives from each
sector to participate in developing work plan, implementing
the works and conducting M&E process;
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Internal and external audit should be conducted for all
agreed development efforts and encourage for mutual
learning and improvement;
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Appropriate mechanism on micro loans should be
established;
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A mechanism to address the unemployment and migration
with decent works;
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An effective marketing mechanism to ensure the fair trade;
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Fund mobilizing and funding mechanism needs to be
effectively set up;
Mechanisms, Monitoring and Evaluation
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A Monitoring and Evaluation mechanism such as JMI needs
to be in place at both national, sub-national and sectors;
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Improving technical working group (TWG), GDCC, CDCF or
committee with co-lead/facilitators (should have CSO reps)
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The good governance, anti-corruption law/policy should be
reinforced at all level.
Potential Challenges
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Not genuine partnership between CSOs and Government,
and triangle partnership;
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Cambodian’s Financial resources heavily depend on
international grants and donations;
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Poor governance and corruption highly existed;
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Lack of independence of Judicial system in the country;
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Lack of genuine engagement with citizens in development
process.
Proposed Resolutions
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Policies outline genuine partnership between CSOs and
Government and Tripartite partnership;
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More investment on the institutional development;
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Peer learning or exchanging of best practices among
different development actors;
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A mechanism for resource mobilization from the other
development actors such as DP, government and private
sector;
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More and regular dialogue/forum between civil society and
the government in both national and sub national level;
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Officially recognize the roles of CSOs as started in ACCRA
(service delivery, empowering, advocacy and watch-dog)
Ways Forward
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Finalize today communiqué and report;
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Feed in to UN discussion on 27-29 May 2014 and
UN General Assembly in September 2014; ADB and
World Bank CSO Engagement
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Round table discussion with RGC, DPs in June 2014
and beyond;
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Beyond 2015-ADA-GCAP 4th consultations on Post2015 development agenda on 25-26 May 2014 in
Bangkok-Thailand;
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Connect to Beyond 2015 campaign at global levels
(e.g Brussels in June).
Thanks for Your Attention!
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