Development Cooperation Trends in Cambodia: Using Evidence to Promote Partnerships and Develop Effectiveness

Rapid progress in Cambodia’s socio-economic development over the past decade has been achieved as a result of effective leadership on the part of the Royal Government and the committed support of its domestic and international development actors. These partnerships, and the resources they have mobilised, have made an important contribution to creating an enabling environment in which economic growth, reductions in poverty and improvements in people’s livelihoods have all made significant advances. To consolidate and maintain this progress, the Royal Government has produced the Rectangular Strategy –Phase III to set out priority actions for the period 2014-2018. The NSDP will serve to guide the implementation of these priority actions in order to ensure that the objectives of the Rectangular Strategy are achieved. Accordingly, and in recognition of the important role to be played by its development partners, the Royal Government has formulated its Development Cooperation and Partnerships Strategy. Based on the principles of development effectiveness –results, capacities and partnerships –the Strategy identifies the tools and mechanisms that are required to facilitate effective and results-based partnerships amongst a wide range of development actors, including providers of ODA and other forms of development finance, South-South actors, the private sector and NGOs.