 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Policy Documents and Guidelines The following links provide access to some of the most relevant aid management policy documents. National Policy Frameworks and Aid Effectiveness The National Strategic Development Plan (2006-2010) and the Rectangular Strategy of the Government provide the overarching national development frameworks. The second phase of the Rectangular Strategy was launched in September 2008 and the NSDP Mid-Term Review was conducted in 2008. The Strategic Framework for Development Cooperation Management (2006-2010) and the National Operational Guidelines set out the manner in which Government wishes to manage external development resources in the context of the NSDP and Rectangular Strategy. The Harmonisation, Alignment and Results Action Plan (2006-2010) provides a basis for monitoring the implementation of priority aid effectiveness activities. Monitoring Aid Effectiveness A Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in Cambodia was signed in October 2006 with development partners to apply the global principles that had been agreed in the Paris Declaration. An Aid Effectiveness Report was prepared in 2007 and another in 2008 A significant share of development assistance is provided in the form of technical cooperation. Several studies have been completed on this topic:
Technical Cooperation Study on the Health Sector
(2008) These studies were used to inform the preparation of a Government Position Paper which was subsequently developed into a 'Guideline on the Provision and Management of Technical Cooperation' for use by Government and its development partners. An additional aid effectiveness challenge relates to excessive degrees of aid fragmentation. This occurs where development partners allocate their resources across a large number of sectors or where each sector faces an excessive management burden as a result of implementing a large number of projects. These challenges were analysed in the Aid Effectiveness Reports in 2007 and 2008. The proposed Government response is to review the nature of the challenge in each sector and to consider the relative merits of: a) increased use of programme-based approaches; b) implementing a division of labour or complementarity exercise; c) encouraging increased use of delegated cooperation arrangements; d) using General or sector budget support, or pooled funds; and e) developing increased capacity at sector level to promote efficient project implementation, including by making increased use of country systems. A number of documents outline how a division of labour exercise may be taken forward:
-
International Good practice Principles on In-Country
Division of labour (HLF-3) Evaluation of Aid Effectiveness In the period June to November 2008 an Evaluation of Aid Effectiveness in Cambodia was conducted, timed to build on the global consensus on aid effectiveness agreed at the Accra High-Level Forum.(the Accra Agenda for Action is also available in Khmer). The purpose of the Evaluation on Aid Effectiveness was to review and evaluate accumulated experience in implementing the H-A-R Action Plan and to identify an approach for the period 2009-2010. The evaluation also strengthened the mutual accountability component of Cambodia's aid effectiveness work. A Concept Note guided the evaluation process, and self-assessments were produced by each development partner and Technical Working Group. These were synthesised into a short note and, together with a range of other qualitative and quantitative evidence, were provided to an Independent Review Team, who conducted their own research and analysis. The findings of the Evaluation were reported in the 2008 Aid Effectiveness Report, which was presented to the December 2008 CDCF meeting. Partnership and Dialogue mechanisms The Technical Working Groups are the basis for dialogue on a range of sectoral and thematic issues. Their work is structured on a Guideline on the Role and Functioning of the TWGs (December 2006). Progress is monitored based on a set of Joint Monitoring Indicators that are informed by a set of JMI Guidelines. The Government-Development Partner Coordination Committee (GDCC) coordinates TWG activity and the Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum (CDCF), which met in June 2007 and December 2008, provides an opportunity for high-level dialogue. Partnership issues have been the basis for considerable discussion. Some of the more relevant studies are provided below:
Mutual
Accountability: an imperative for capacity development
(2006) Partnership has also been a discussion topic at the high-level consultations. The following documents record the evolution in the development partnership since 2000.
Aid Effectiveness Report
prepared for the CDCF in
2007 and
2008 Aid Management Systems in Cambodia
The
Cambodia ODA Database records
details of project and programme assistance provided by all development
partners.
Details related to the ODA Database can
be accessed here and there is also a
ODA Database User Manual
available for
download. |
