Good governance is at the heart of the Cambodian Government’s Rectangular Strategy and is highlighted as a requirement for the country to achieve poverty reduction and sustainable development. Achieving good governance, however, requires that the institutions that guarantee accountability and transparency become effective. Social accountability is based on three key relationships: between citizens and the [...]
By Kao Kim Hourn This publication is based on the outcomes of a two-day national conference on “Elections in Cambodia: Lessons Learned and Future Direction,” which was organized by the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs (NDI), with the funding support from the British [...]
By Stephen Bridges I must confess that my knowledge of the subject matter is limited. I was not here in 1993 or 1998. My practical experience of Cambodian elections consists of what I have read coupled with visits to about ten polling stations in Prey Veng and Kampong Cham during the recent Commune Council Election. [...]
More than one hundred participants representing government ministries, donors, civil society groups, and the media attended a one-day workshop at Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh on May 3, 2007 to discuss the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection (MoNASRI) component in the proposed Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) Project. The DFGG project is being [...]
Phnom Penh, May 22, 2007—with resolution of the crisis surrounding the World Bank’s leadership, the Bank’s Country Director for Cambodia, Ian Porter, has called for a continuation of the organization’s important work in the field. “Now that the Bank’s leadership issue has been resolved and is behind us, we can focus all our efforts on [...]
Cambodia urgently needs more professional accountants and auditors in both its private and public sectors, and a strengthening of its accounting and auditing standards to support good quality and credible financial reporting, a joint Government/ World Bank workshop was told in early May. The one-day workshop to discuss The Report on the Observance of Standards [...]