The World Bank’s Cambodia office has organized consultations on its new Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC) Strategy with four separate groups of stakeholders – government, donor, civil society, and private sector on January 11 – 12, 2007. These consultations were part of a very active on-going dialogue on these issues in Cambodia. The Government’s Rectangular Strategy [...]
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees freedom of expression. Mr. Toby Mendel, Law Program Director of the international human rights organization, ARTICLE 19 Global Campaign for Free Expression, was invited by the World Bank to address a training seminar at the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection (MONASRI). The World [...]
Prime Minister Hun Sen has repeatedly warned that a failure to improve land management and stop “land grabbing” could lead to a “farmers’ revolution.” While the World Bank is supporting the government to title more land under its Land Management and Administration Project, the issue of what to do about existing land disputes remains a [...]
The World Bank has held its first Social Accountability School in Cambodia. The school is one of the activities of the Program to Enhance Capacity on Social Accountability (PECSA). PECSA is part of the Demand for Good Governance Project (DFGG) now under preparation, which will be supported by the World Bank. The World Bank Newsletter [...]
Enhancing social accountability by supporting decentralization and promoting citizens as partners for better governance is one of the four objectives of the World Bank Country Assistance Strategy. The World Bank Newsletter had an opportunity to interview Cyprian Fisiy, Social Development Sector Manager, about his work on social accountability and community empowerment. Q. What is the [...]
While the World Bank Social Development team was visiting Kampong Thom province, the World Bank newsletter had anopportunity to interview Mr. Arnaldo Pellini, Adviser to GTZ, theGerman technical cooperation organization, who is working on civilsociety and local governance issues, and on a community-based rural development project. Q. Could you tell us briefly about your work [...]
By Prum Sokha The author has personally been involved in all three of the post-Paris Peace Agreement elections in Cambodia. These were the United Nation-organized election for a Constituent Assembly in May 1993, the election for the National Assembly five years later in July 1998, and the nation-wide Commune Council Elections in February 2002. Each [...]
By Kouy Bunroeun Since the Paris Peace Agreement in 1991, Cambodia has held three elections: two national elections in 1993 and 1998, and the communal council election in 2002. Taking this opportunity, I wish to thank the Cambodian people who had participated in the three previous elections. I also wish to think UNTAC for successfully [...]
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 [...]