KINGDOM OF CAMBODIANATIONAL - RELATION - KING

COUNTRY REPORT OF CAMBODIATHE INTERNATIONAL TRAINNING COURSE ON

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATERGY

JULY 17,2005 TO JULY 30,2005

SEOUL KOREA

Prepared by Mr: HOR SORIN and Mr: IM PHOANSOPHAL

FROM: MINTSTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

Rural infrastructure Development planning

Regional Development Strategy

IntroductionHuman resource DevelopmentRural Development

Programmed and StrategyConclusion

INTRODUCTION

Population about 15million 85% are Farmers 1.3Million living cities The kingdom of Cambodia Religion : Buddhism Agriculture’s share of GDP about 42% Cambodia Consist of 20 provinces and 4 cities Capital city : Phnom-Penh Currency : Riel ( #4000Riel=1USD) Border : Vietnam, Lao PDR and Thailand Total area 181,035 square kilometers

Map of Cambodia

ORGANIZATION CHART OF MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

A-Capacity building and Human resources development

The strategy aims to enhance capacity of human re- sources with high technical and scientific skills that effectively respond to labor market needs in terms of entrepreneurship ,high creativity , responsibility ,discipline morality ,virtue ,professional ethics ,and honesty in an effort to promote development .

Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

B- Mandate Coordinating, cooperating, implementing.

monitoring and evaluating rural development projects and programmes to rehabilitate and develop rural areas by assisting the rural population.

Coordinating the operational efforts of the various line ministries and assistance programmes.

Undertaking research to develop the rural areas of Cambodia.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

C- Mission Statement The MRD must ensure that suffering in rural

areas is answered promptly, effectively and quickly alleviated.

Will allow rural communities to make an increasing contribution to the national economy.

The basic building blocks that can provide and guarantee the essential quality of life for all rural people.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

D- Main Objectives To improve the quality of life for rural

people by encouraging and facilitating economic self-sufficiency and active social awareness.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

• To encourage and assist the rural community to participate more directly in improving farm production, rural industry and the marketing of their products.

• To improve the rural economy and help reverse the present trend of rural/urban migration.

Rural Development Programmes

The integration of the rural economy into the national economy

Develop the internal market

Enterprises and small businesses require loans to help generate income.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

Further rehabilitation and Construction of rural infrastructure

Rural infrastructure network is a line blood for all connection in Kingdom of Cambodia, and there by transforms the country economy’s into an economy which ensures the integration of not only its own internal economy, but its regional economy as well. Moreover, for economic conditions, rural infrastructure plays a key role in “a head of economic growth” and is a most efficient way of alleviating poverty and suffering of the rural poor. On the basic of the opinion, MRD has been offered a high priority over the rehabilitation and the construction of rural infrastructure such as: Road, Bridges, Culverts, wells, ponds, And small irrigation so forth, which connect all remote areas with state roads nation wide to facilitate the circulation of farm products and others with a view to be easy for rural development and the integration of provincial, distinct and communal economy, and therefore to progress more security defense.

Ministry of rural Development

RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (RIIF)

ADB / LOAN N0 13.85-CAM(SF)

Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

THE EMERGENCY FLOOD REHABILITATION PROJECT

ADB / LOAN N 18.24 -CAM(SF)

Ministry of Rural Development

COMMUNITY BASED OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT(CBRDP)

AND COMMUNE FUND (CF)

INTERNATIONAL FOUND OF AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT (IFAD)

LOAN N 0 551KH

Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

PROECT CBRDP / CF IFAD LOAN N 551KH

Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

PROJECT CBRDP / CF IFAD LOAN N0 551KH

The ministry of Rural development (MRD)

E-Strategy The key thrust of the (MRD)Strategy to fight corruption Is to take concrete actions that attack the roots of

corruption. The implementation of the anti-corruption strategy will be support with t enough tools and resources to prevent and to substantially crack down

on corrupt entities . Implementation is crucial because laws , regulations and codes of conduct are not sufficient to successfully fight corruption. Indeed .there must be efforts and mechanisms to strengthen the effectiveness of law enforcement.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MRD)

E- Policy Two key policies have been outlined by the MRD to

guide and accelerate rural development: Firstly: To ensure that national and international

agencies and organization involved in rural development work more closely together.

Secondly: To promote a more people oriented and integrated approach to rural development.

FUTURE ASPECT OF (MRD)

MRD consider as a top priority the strengthening of partnership with all development partners including to donor community , the private sector and Civil society.

MRD considers the private sector as an engine of economic growth,

MRD will continues to the strengthen cooperation between the MRD and civil society,

MRD welcomes the participation of the NGO in the process of socio-economic rehabilitation and development.

Conclusion

The rural development approach is based on partnerships and cooperation in development. This encompass cooperation between the government (line ministries and local authorities), international organization, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, community organizations and the rural people.