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Welcome to

CCC Members

Bi-monthly Meeting

6 October 2015At KSSA/ICF Center

Vision: Sustainable Development for Cambodia

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Cambodia’s Preparedness for SDGs: Challenges, Opportunities, and

FinancingSreang Chheat

06 October 2015, CCC

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OutlineCambodia, from CMDGs to SDGsSDGs for Cambodia:

ChallengesOpportunitiesFinancing

Recommendations

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Cambodia MDGs (RGC 2014)CMDGs Assessment

CMDG1: Poverty Met on main indicators

CMDG2: Basic Education Most likely to be met on main indicators

CMDG3: Gender Met on main indicators

CMDG4: Child Health Met

CMDG5: Maternal Health Met

CMDG6: Communicable Diseases Met

CMDG7: Environment Met on main indicators

CMDG8: Partnership Met

CMDG9: Demining Some way to go

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CMGS—performance explainedSustained 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

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CMGS—performance explainedUnderachievement 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

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SDGs for Cambodia: Challenges6 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

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SDGs for Cambodia: Challenges4. 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

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SDGs for Cambodia: Opportunities4 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

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SDGs for Cambodia: Opportunities3. 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

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SDGs for Cambodia: Financing3 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

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Recommendations in brief1. 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

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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.

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Thank you

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, Europe

InterAction (USA)

NGO Quality Assurance Certification Mechanism (QuAM), Uganda

Rendir Cuentas, Latin America

Viwango, Kenya

Voluntary 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

practiceImprove CSO accountability and practices

Reduce reporting / focus on what unites us

Contribute to enabling environment for CSOs

Thank you!