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សិក្ខាសាលាពិគ្រោះយោបល់ថ្នាក់ជាតិស្តីពី ដំណើរការចុះបញ្ជីដីសមូហភាពសហគមន៍ជនជាតិដើមភាគតិច

នាថ្ងៃទី១៨ ខែកក្កដា ឆ្នាំ២០២៤ នាទីរួមខេត្តកំពង់ចាម អង្គការគាំទ្រសហគមន៍ជនជាតិដើមភាគតិច​ សហការជាមួយវេទិកានៃអង្គការមិនមែនរដ្ឋាភិបាល ស្តីពីកម្ពុជា និងអង្គការដៃគូរផ្សេងទៀត បានរៀបចំ

សិក្ខាសាលាពិគ្រោះយោបល់ថ្នាក់ជាតិស្តីពី ដំណើរការចុះបញ្ជីដីសមូហភាពសហគមន៍ជនជាតិដើមភាគតិច។

សិក្ខាសាលាពិគ្រោះយោបល់ថ្នាក់ជាតិនេះមានការចូលរួមសហការពីក្រសូងជំនាញពាក់ព័ន្ធរួមមានក្រសួង អភិវឌ្ឍន៍ជនបទ ក្រសួងមហាផ្ទៃ ក្រសួងរៀបចំដែនដី នគរូបនីយកម្ម និងសំណង់ ក្រសួងកសិកម្ម រុក្ខាប្រមាញ់ និងនេសាទ និងក្រសួងបរិស្ថាន ព្រមទាំងមានការចូលរួមពីអាជ្ញាធរ តំណាងសហគមន៍ អង្គការសង្គមស៊ីវិល និងដៃគូម្ចាស់ជំនួយ សរុបចំនួន ១៥៨ នាក់ (ស្រី៣៧ នាក់)។

សមិទ្ធផលសម្រេចចេញពីខិតខំប្រឹងប្រែង លទ្ធផលស្រាវជ្រាវ បញ្ហាប្រឈម និងសំណូមពរផ្សេងៗត្រូវបានលើកឡើងយកមកពិភាក្សាពាក់ព័ន្ធការចុះបញ្ជីដីសមូហភាពជនជាតិដើមភាគតិច។

លោកបណ្ឌិត ថុល ឌីណា នាយកគម្រោង LASEDIII នៃក្រសូងរៀបចំដែនដី នគរូបនីយកម្ម និងសំណង់ បានលើកឡើងពីការចុះបញ្ជីសហគមន៍កន្លងមកដែលជាលទ្ធផល ១៩៣សហគមន៍ទទួលបានការកំណត់អត្តសញ្ញាណពីក្រសួងអភិឌ្ឍន៍ជនបទ ១៥៣ សហគមន៍ទទួលស្គាល់ជានីតិបុគ្គលពីក្រសួងមហាផ្ទៃ និង៤៣ សហគមន៍បានទទួលស្គាល់ជាផ្លូវការពីក្រសួងរៀបចំដែនដី។​

សូមជម្រាបផងដែលថា លោកសឿង សារឿន នាយកប្រតិបត្តិ អង្គការវេទិកានៃអង្គការមិនមែនរដ្ឋាភិបាល បាលជម្រុញអោយមានការគិតគូពីផែនការក្នុងការរៀបចំធនធាន និងគម្រោងអភិវឌ្ឍន៍សហគមន៍ទាំងនោះ បន្ថែមលើខ្លឹមសារនៃកិច្ចពីភាក្សានាពេលនេះ។

ជារួមខ្លឹមសារចេញពីការពិភាក្សា សំណូមពរ និងអនុសាសន៍ផ្សេងៗត្រូវបានចងក្រង និងរៀបចំជាខ្លឹមសារគន្លឹះសម្រាប់ដាក់ជូនថ្នាក់ដឹកនាំក្រសូងពាក់ព័ន្ធ ដើម្បីបន្តពិភាក្សា និងចូលរួមដោះស្រាយ។



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Jul 29, 2022

Workshop on Access to Information and Community Participation in Decision-Making Process (es) for Development and Investment Projects”
On the morning of July 29, 2022, the NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGOF) in collaboration with the Institute for Advocacy and Policy (API), Coalition for Partnership in Democratic Development (CPDD), organized Workshop on Access to Information and Community Participation in Decision-Making Process (es) for Development and Investment Projects at the Himawari Hotel. The purpose of this workshop is: Disseminate reports on community gaps in decision-making processes for large-scale project development, conservation and development of indigenous peoples, and natural resource management. 2. Discuss ways to create sustainable solutions that increase community confidence and knowledge to effectively participate in the decision-making process on large-scale development projects. Welcome remark by Dr. Tek Vannara, Executive Director of NGOF . He raised a provision of public participation that are existed in the policies, law, and regulations of Cambodia. He also raised a practical knowledge that is being conducted by NGOs as well as the sub-national government and TWG on the enforcement of the provision of public participation. Mr. Man Vanphanith, Senior Program of API intervened on the access to information. Why is it important? The right to access to information is the right recognized internationally that the public is entitled to receive information and governments obliges to share the information to the public. In Cambodia few projects are considered to be the best cases for any development projects. For instance, the case of compensation of the white building case. API has been working with IPs in 3 provinces. Most NGOs did not received information when the development phase happens in village. They were aware only when the construction started. It is 130 countries endorsed A2I law. Surprisingly, China and Vietnam enacted the A2I law to receive more investment into the countries. API encourages the government to enact the A2I law which is currently under the mandate of the Ministry of Information. Mrs. Kong Bunna, Deputy Director of Policy Analysis and Development Division of NCDD provided an opening remark. She expressed sincere thank the NGOF for inviting Ministry of Interior to participate in the workshop. She highlighted the reform of the decentralization that have been carrying out by the MoI. In order to achieve the goal of the reform, the law regulates to delegate the roles and responsibilities to sub-national government. The participation of local communities in the development in the 3-year rolling plan of the sub-national government. Therefore, it is very significant for the participation of local community in the development. She encouraged the participation of all parties in constructive way with the government. Presentation of Mr. Tep Kuntheara, Freelance consultant The level of participation of local communities could be highlighted as a snapshot as good, satisfaction and poor. CSOs are a vibrant force. CSOs play an important role to promote community participation and to bridge the community with the government. Local NGOs has limit capacity in the participation, provide training to local communities to effectively participate in a consultation. Concerning EIA, there is a clear lack of participation of local community in the consultation at the national level, except only at sub-national level. The level of participation of NGOs and local communities is still limit in the large-scale development project. Some communities are proactive, they do not wait for any coordination from CSOs. Once they have received invitation from government, they organized themselves with their community by organizing a pre-meeting with their communities in advance. Other alternative, local communities should approach local government to seek addressing their issues. Most of local communities do not clearly understand the large-scale development project, so they lose confident in participating in the consultation of a project. Closing Remark by Mr. Pheap Sophea He concluded the workshop and thank everyone for their active participation in the discussion.
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Oct 31, 2019

Annual Network Reflection
On 31st October 2019 , the NGO Forum on Cambodia organized Annual Reflection 2019 at PPEDC / ICF. The meeting commenced by Ouk Vannara, NGOF Deputy Executive Director of NGOF summarized and recapped the first day of Annual General Meeting and guided on the network reflection. In addition, the Secretariats and all Network members discussed the achievements, challenges and experiences in 2019, and identified strategic directions, capacity development plans for network members and action plans for 2020. Network reflection to review its 3-year action plan and key achievement for 2019, Chair of the steering committee and NCs. All 8th Networks were divided and discuss the key achievements, constraints, lessons-learned 2019 and way forward and Action Plan for 2020, Secretariat and all members of every network. Briefly reported from each program on the result of network reflection by all PMs: Mr. Hok Menghoin , EAP Manager presented the results of NECA, NDF-C, and RCC. NECA has three outcomes. 20% of CSO inputs in NDP. Engage with the private sector such as local company eg. EuroCham. The model of the award to two companies. Increase the budget of CIP/CDP by up to 20%. NDF-C . Three outcomes. The sub-decree of contract farming will be reviewed by working with the Agro-industry department, meeting with TWG and Research. Monitoring the use of the law on the pesticide. 50% of inputs will be integrated into the pesticide law. Working with the third national assembly committee. Working with CARD and Department of information dissemination. Work on the agriculture cooperative law by building the capacity of the network. RCC is working on water governance. It is related to trans-boundary impact. Advocate for the EIA process. National compensation policy would not work unless it will not affect the eco-system. We will conduct awareness-raising on renewable energy, cost, and benefit of the hydropower dam. We will promote home solar in the rural area that would not able to get the electricity. Mr. Keo Bunly , Acting NDP Manager Presented the results of BWG and DPWG. BWG is working on transparency and accountability on the tax incentive. We would like to know the benefit of the tax incentive. There are many key actors. Direct engagement and advocacy work. Meeting with MEF. Conduct research on tax collection, launching and advocate with national assembly committee. BWG training on tax. The second outcome to encourage CSO to involve in budge dissemination. Organize the consultation meeting with the public, radio talk show. We want to see the increase of national budget in health, education and social service. Conduct research on budget allocation on health for pregnant women. We will use the result in a dialogue with the key institution. Capacity building on membership strengthening on budget. We want to see the budget allocation to the sub-national level, especially for women and children to get social service. Conduct research and information dissemination to key stakeholders. Train the public on budget allocation on social services. We hope that our team at a sub-national level will work on it. Strengthen the capacity of citizens and local authorities to involve in planning and monitoring. Video development, training on TOT/Eco training. Knowledge development, lesion learned documentation. Mr. Pheap Sophea , LFP Manager presented the results of LAHRIN, IPFN and CSO REED+. LAHRIN is capacity on fair and just compensation. Consultation on land law amendment. Conduct the study tour to exchange the experience. The resettlement project will organize the investigation of the three hot cases of land disputes. We continue to organize the NAC and attend APF. Conduct investigation in other provinces and continue the dialogue. IPFN . Suggest to build cultural village, push for dealing dispute, a national workshop on Dos Kromom mountain. Monitoring the inputs that we submit to relevant ministries. Continue the CLT registration. Dialogue on IP rights. Exposure visit on CLT of IP. Sub-national consultation workshop on forestry and fisheries law amendment. Conduct VGTT, FPIC training for the network. CSO REED+ promotes the budget allocation for the forestry community about 30%. I will apply for the budget for natural resource protection. Push the plan for community forestry formulation. Carbon financing to support the community. Promote CSR in the IP community. Consultation workshop for forestry community management. Co-management workshop to provide input to the benefit of the community. Capacity building on REED+, organize quarterly meetings with legal support from the member. Train community on the four-zoning division. Will continue to provide input in the 6-7 workshop. Provide inputs in FLGT. Organize NAC for 2020. Closing Remark, Dr. Tek Vannara , Executive Director. Express great thanks to all participants. We reflect on the key achievements, action plan and budget for 2020. We will document the recommendation of all participant and will discuss internally with the steering committee of the network. All programs will review it and call for meeting with steering in February and submit to donors and MC of NGO Forum. The AOP gained from all participants. NGO Forum plays the role of the secretariat for coordinating all networks. We should engage with all private sector and the Chamber of Commerce. We should consider Chinese Engagement, the International standard of inter–banks. What key activities should be continued? Please continue to develop Cambodia. Working together for positive results. Wish all participant all the best and success in your works.
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Jul 5, 2019

National Workshop on Cambodia’ Citizen Climate Budget
In order to develop a Citizen Climate Budget (CCB) that will present the government’s budget plans for climate change mitigation and adaptation in accessible language and formats, the NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGOF) is worked with an external consultant to conduct a desk review assignment and lead a consultation process related to the audiences, content and formats of the Citizen Climate Budget (CCB). The CCB report then was drafted and the NGO Forum and consulted through two-separate sub-national consultation workshop on 04-05 July 2019 at Siem Reap and Kampong Cham Province in order to seek for input and foresight from relevant stakeholders including provincial department of the Ministry of Environment (MoE), Network for Environment and Climate Change Alliance members and community representative to produce policy brief and final report for widely dissemination. For next, NGOF together with partners UNDP regional and Cambodia Climate Change Alliance (CCCA) are going to organize the national consultation workshop on Cambodia’s citizens climate budget report that will taking place on August 12, 2019 from 8:30am–1:00pm at Himawari hotel. There were total 47 participants (15 females) from the representative of inter-ministries, Development Partners, CSOs, academia and students. The objectives of this workshop were: • To present participants on the draft CCB report • To gather inputs from relevant key stakeholders on the draft citizen climate budget report through assessing and identifying the Climate Change Financing Expenditure and Projection. • To incorporate inputs as a mean into the final draft of the report for the last consultation workshop in national level. Keynote Address RUPP, Dr. Rath Sethik, Dean of Royal University of Phnom Penh . It is important to collect inputs for Climate Change. The Climate Change is globally phenomena such as flood, drought, and partial raining. The state has cope with it based on their capacity. Base on the research mentioned that in Cambodia, the capacity to cope with it still limited. Inter-ministries have been tried all their best especially National Committee for Disaster Management. Natural Disaster preparedness is very important. It is important to have enough information. The budget was also very important. He fully supported the participation of all stakeholders to cope with climate change. Wish all participants all the best. Keynote Address by Mr. Julien Chevillard, Chief Technical Advisor, UNDP/CCCA representative. He mentioned that UNDP were actively working with government such as climate change adaptation and mitigation. The last figure showed that climate finance is very important. There were about 30 % of the government budget supported the CCCA program. Cambodia has regularly updated the data of climate change budge every year. The citizen has the role to follow up the climate budget allocation and carefully monitor it. UNDP working in partnership with NGO Forum, to create the platform for sharing the information of Climate Change Budget. NGO Forum has collected those recommendations from the community to share with all key stakeholders. It is the opportunity to share climate change budget information. He said that he looks forward to hearing the feedback from all key stakeholders and wished the consultation to work well. He hopes to hear from all participants the effectiveness of the Climate Change Budget and looking for fruitful discussion. Welcome, Remark Dr. Tek Vannara, Executive Director of the NGO Forum on Cambodia . Respected all participants. The study conducted by the consultant, supported by the Swedish embassy and Regional UNDP office. Welcomed that MoEF supported climate change budget. CMDG goal 13 to promote the development in Cambodia, the research finding is very important to contribute to the development progress. The two sub-national workshops were conducted in Siem Reap and Kampong Cham provinces. The inputs were very important that have been collected from the community and all key stakeholders. He encouraged all participants to constructively involve in the discussion. In Rattanakiri province was affected by flood from Sesan river and about 500 families were invacuated. Many Rice fields were affected. It is very important about climate change funding information. The result of the research will be shared to MoEF, MoE and other government institutions. He wished all participants all the best and success in their work. Presentation on a draft of Cambodia’s citizen's climate budget report Mr. Chan Sophal, consultant said that as Mr. Julien mentioned this morning, the research finding is simple information for citizen to understand. Please help to see the information about the national budget and the climate change budget, expense change by NGOs, Development partner and government. Based on the information this morning in the newspaper, it is flooded everywhere and many people died. Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia Events Relating to Climate Change including irregular rainfall, flood, storm, drought and increase temperature. Since 2,000-2017, there were many people affected by flood, drought and storm. The impact of climate change on the economy could be as big as 10% of GDP by 2050. In 2020 GDP dropped to -0. 4%, 2030-2. 5%, 2040-6%,2050-9. 8%, Women are vulnerable to climate change. Since 2008 there were many policies and strategic framework were developed to cope with climate change in Cambodia including National Program Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change developed in 2006, National Green Growth Program Direction developed in 2009, National Forest Program 2010-2029, Report examining the institutional and public spending of climate change in Cambodia developed in 2012, National Strategic Plan for Green Growth developed in 2013, Cambodia Climate Change Strategic Plan and National Action Plan for Disaster Reduction 2013, NSDP 2014-2018 and Cambodia Climate Change Financing Framework (CCFF). What is the increase in the national budget? National spending has increased substantially over the past several years, reaching $ 3,357 million in 2014. $ 6,360 million in 2019 (almost twice). The national budget has grown significantly over the past several years as a result of high earnings, which led to money. Save by the Government. The national budget has grown significantly over the years, however foreign loans are still necessary for investment as much as needed. How much does the government spend on climate change action plans? Only 1% of GDP accounts for 3.2% of total public expenditure and slightly declines from 2015 to 2017, however, the wider public sector accounts for 30% of total expenditure. The Public spending on climate change is minimal compared to other costs in 2017 Only 912 billion Riels ($ 225 million). Pay only 3% for climate change resilience. Only 27 % costs that contribute to climate change adaptation. What is the cost of climate change? The cost of climate change in the Ministry is significant as a percentage of total climate change costs in 2017. There are 14 Inter-ministries spent budget for climate change especially ministries of water resource and meteorology (MoWRAM) spent 37%. Ministry of transportation spent 19%. Ministry of Rural Development spent 10%, Ministry of Agriculture, forestry and fisheries spent 10%, Ministry of Environment spent 4%, Ministry of Health spent 3% and other ministries spent 17%. The key sectors with high climate change cost share compared with total climate change cost. priority important sector spends on climate change including irrigation, road improvement, livelihood of vulnerable people group affected by climate change, climate change action plan and disaster risk management. Priority Spending on Plan of Action for Resistance to Climate Change. Where the budget from? Most climate change spending through major ministries is funded by donors rather than local resources (in billions of riels). Most of the funding came from donor agencies. Does the budget expense for adaptation and mitigations according to the action plan? The actual cost of coping with climate change is about $ 160 million a year, or slightly more than the planned cost in the last three years (in billion riels). Actual expenditure on climate change versus the planned expenditure of the ministry with the highest associated costs (in billions of riels). Ministries of Water Resource and Meteorology (MoWRAM) spent more budget than other ministries. How are gender issues being included in climate change costs? 10% consider gender in the program related to climate change. 55% consider climate change in gender program. Recommendations • The government should increase the cost of climate change directly, because Cambodia is facing a very high-risk of climate change. • Relevant Ministries should submit budget information on the Ministry's website, with the inclusion of gender issues for climate change for the public to access. • The government should provide simple information on climate change impacts and budget allocations and expenditure aimed at tackling climate change. • The government should prepare regular reports on climate change budget for the people. The Ministry of Economy and Finance should prepare this report with current information. A simplified one that illustrates the budget allocations and plans the government has taken on climate change issues. • Relevant ministries should allow non-governmental partners the opportunity to participate in climate change decision-making and provide mechanisms for NGOs and institutions involved in coping with climate change. Climate change participates in monitoring and monitoring. Recap and closing remark, Mr. Sam Sovann, Chairman of NGOs Environment and Climate Change Alliance (NECA) Steering Committee. Thanks to all the comments made by all participants. It is the third workshop after Siem Reap and Kampong Cham provinces. He hopes that the consultant will review it based on the inputs from all key relevant stakeholders. Wish all participants all the best and success in their works. Conclusion: Based on my observation, this workshop reached the objectives and participants able to gain more knowledge on the draft citizen climate budget on Cambodia report and the content in the booklet. It was reviewed and generated key inputs from key relevant stakeholders on proposed contents of the report. All inputs which gathered from the consultation workshops will be consolidated and incorporated into the final report and widely dissemination in the future.
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