KSSA/ICF Welcome to CCC Members Bi-monthly Meeting 6 October 2015 At KSSA/ICF Center Vision: Sustainable Development for Cambodia

Sreang Chheat 06 October 2015, CCC 2

Outline Cambodia, from CMDGs to SDGs SDGs for Cambodia: Challenges Opportunities Financing Recommendations 3

Cambodia MDGs (RGC 2014) CMDGsAssessment CMDG1: PovertyMet on main indicators CMDG2: Basic EducationMost likely to be met on main indicators CMDG3: GenderMet on main indicators CMDG4: Child HealthMet CMDG5: Maternal HealthMet CMDG6: Communicable DiseasesMet CMDG7: EnvironmentMet on main indicators CMDG8: PartnershipMet CMDG9: DeminingSome way to go 4

CMGS—performance explained Sustained growth of around 7.8% on average, contributing to poverty reduction Gs. 4,5,6=achieved mainly due to its low to non-sensitivity Governance, rule of law and judiciary reforms have not performed well, due to its high sensitivity Past growth accompanied by serious environmental degradation 5

CMGS—performance explained Underachievement of Gs. 2 and 3 linked to underinvestment to the education sector (RGC 2014) Across all the CMDGs, NGOs play and DPs play a critical role—much better in less sensitive areas, than the highly sensitive 6

SDGs for Cambodia: Challenges 6 Challenges identified: 1. Not pro-green, growth at the expense of forest cut, and environmental degradation 2. mismatch of SDGs’ institutional focus and Cambodia’s reality—external pressure, that can be dangerous for peace and stability and growth 3. SDG’s ambitious goal and target vs. Cambodia’s low quantifying capacity—coordination challenges 7

SDGs for Cambodia: Challenges 4. SDG’s governance focus, and Cambodia’s actual poverty and growth-focused Rice needs to be produced before rights can be respected 5. Poor and near poor, requires serious attention—3/4 categorised as poor or near poor, malnutrition, and new poor more investment in health, edu, and social protection 6. Govt, DP and NGOs coordination remains weak among government agencies, govt-NGOs, and traditional and new DPs 8

SDGs for Cambodia: Opportunities 4 opportunities envisioned: 1. SDGs for resource mobilisation and setting local agenda focus on sensitive issues such as climate change and environment 2. Governance is improving, especially after the 2013 elections, and in sector such as HIV/AID and Phnom Penh Water Authority 9

SDGs for Cambodia: Opportunities 3. Government has shown strong capacity to own development agenda dealing with both traditional and new donors to address its development needs 4. ASEAN economic community is to benefit from Free flow of goods, services, investment, capital,, and skilled labor, free trade arrangement Projected, GDP growth by 4.4 percentage points, exports by 5.3 percentage points, private investment by 24.8 percentage points (Itakra 2013) For international reforms 10

SDGs for Cambodia: Financing 3 sources of financing: 1. Public Financial Management Reform (PFMR) and better tax administration, 2. During SDGs, govt has shown its commitment to sustain growth and private sector 3. DP, ODA, and FDI 11

Recommendations in brief 1. Development partners’ role in mobilizing aid to meet the goal of 0.7% of their respective GNI is highly encouraged 2. A multi-stakeholder forum could be useful in guiding the SDG implementation as well ensuring accountability and Incorporating SGDs into technical groups such as Technical Working Grou 12

Recommendations in brief 3. Relevant SDGs could be mainstreamed into the decentralization and deconcentration policies, so that the sub national authorities could operate in ways contributing to the overall realization of SGDs. 4. Capacity building on quantitative work needs to be further strengthened and equipped, especially for the concerned officials at the Ministry of Planning to assist M&E work. 13

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Global Standard for CSO Accountability

INGO Accountability Charter Our Ambition: improve NGO accountability and enabling environment Cross sector: members from development, environment, human rights etc. Global: our members are the international organisations of: Amnesty, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Plan, World Vision, Transparency International etc. Comprehensive: code covers governance, independence, financial security, inclusion, environmental sustainability, anti-corruption etc. Strict compliance: Annual reports – assessed by Independent Review Panel – results published on our website

 Integration of economic, environmental and social goals (cross sector)  Same agenda for global South and North (global)  Focus on peace, democracy and inclusive societies (comprehensive)  Link global, national & local to make it concrete… … Global Standard eight strong national CSO codes join forces What‘s the link with the new SDG‘s ?

Challenging times for CSOs National context is important – but also what unites us Learning opportunities are huge Collective CSO voice is stronger in public debates – including the SDG Implementation Rationale for Global Civil Society Cooperation

Partners joining forces Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC)INGO Accountability Charter, EuropeInterAction (USA)NGO Quality Assurance Certification Mechanism (QuAM), UgandaRendir Cuentas, Latin AmericaViwango, KenyaVoluntary Action Network India (VANI)

Our work in the coming 3 years  Mutual learning, community of practice, network of global NGO solidarity  Identify the overlap of existing codes and practices and devise a collectively agreed Global CSO Standard  Standard will be a global “reference standard” for Project Partners and many others to use  Project Partners keep their own code, but devise clear lines of inter-operability

What we want to achieve Strengthen civil society organisations’ effectiveness by developing a globally aligned, strong accountability practice Improve CSO accountability and practicesReduce reporting / focus on what unites usContribute to enabling environment for CSOs

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