ATTACHMENT B
Results of Provincial Workshops
Battambang Workshop Results
Group 1 (CWS, CHED,
PTD, AMARA, Huripruda, CSSSG, OEB, LWS) |
Group 2 (Samakithor, ACED,
BFD, RDA, KNCED, HAI, CFDS) |
Group 3 |
1. What are the needs and issues that poverty reduction strategy should address? Please prioritize. |
- Lack of education
- Lack of health service (Many children, high cost of health service)
- Lack of land, no housing
- Debts
- Low income, natural calamities, insecurity, mined lands
- Lack of markets
- Lack of drinking water
- Lack of roads
- Lack of electricity
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- Demined land have to be distributed to the poor, not the rich
- Land property (formulate a new law on land and fishing lot)
- Health (strengthen pesticide regulation law)
- Investment to rural areas
- Promote education (human resource, skills, techniques)
- Prevent flow of imported goods that are being produced in the country, encourage domestic products
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- Food security
- - Education (human resource)
Unemployment Market(s)
Low agricultural products
Catastrophe
Knowledge (skills and techniques)
- Health (physical and mental)
- Rural infrastructure
- - Social security Corruption
Limited law implementation
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2. What are NGO approaches to poverty reduction? |
- Develop educational curriculum - school, teachers, regular salary
- Develop health service - health centers, curriculum, promote health for remote communities
- Demining - deliver land property to landless farmers
- Provide vocational training in order to gain income
- Seek markets for sale of farmers' products and gain convenient income
Build road to remote areas
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NGO plans should be incorporated into the government's plan according to each field
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- Promote capacity/provide opportunity
- Find markets for sale of agricultural products (international market)
- Forbid agricultural product imports
- Provide and apply transformation (of agricultural products)
- Provide opportunity and support women to be
leader(s)
- Motivate/encourage all poor's children to have schooling
- Educate and provide better health services to local areas
- Promote capacity for family planning
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3. Can NGOs monitor government's poverty reduction strategy? If so, how? If not, what capacities have to be strengthened?
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NGOs can control/monitor projects provided that:
- NGO capacity has to be strengthened
- Transparency of RGC in relation to NGOs/people
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NGOs and civil society have to go together in monitoring, orientation for practice
Strategy: NGO representatives have to be involved in the monitoring or practice working group
(PRSP)
Methods: NGO representative(s) should be elected and his/her mandate and task should be clearly determined
The government has to stand for:
(GAP): Transparency Accountability Equality
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CANNOT
Government's project is not known
NGOs lack capacity monitoring/control
The govt does not provide opportunity
Donors do not interest NGOs
CAN
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NGOs have to make plans together with
govt
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Develop control/monitoring system with
govt
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NGOs develop an independent
monitoring/control group
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Develop a joint law for govt, NGOs and
donors to be implemented
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Promote awareness of implementing all
kinds of performance related to expense, income for the poor
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Banteay Meanchey Workshop Results
Group 1
(RAHDO, Hi-Free, CCPCR, CARE, CAAFW, RCEDO, AFCC) |
Group 2
(LWS, CFEDA, CFDS, TDSP, Press KBA) |
Group 3
(CARDH, CSDA, RADHO, ABI, SEADO, CCHDO, RCEDO) |
What are the needs and issues that poverty reduction strategy should address? Please prioritize. |
What are NGO approaches to poverty reduction? |
Can NGOs monitor government's poverty reduction strategy? If so, how? If not, what capacities have to be strengthened? |
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Govt should deliver health services to be qualified with high
accountability
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Provide opportunity for people to find jobs and gain adequate salary and proper laws to protect people, justice not
corruption
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Improve security and implement appropriate law on security
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Restore and build roads throughout the
country
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Provide opportunity for agricultural and industrial sectors to find markets for their products and to manage markets
properly
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Repair, improve, build irrigation systems for farming activities and electricity generation for the whole
country
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Reform administration by eliminating corruption from all levels of society
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Education - Restructure and strengthen education system
pay attention to teacher's living conditions
quality of education
implement law on education
effectively
- Exchange of products Improve monitoring and control of imported products
(eg, in border, check expiry date of products); If products are not appropriate, not allow to come in, esp Thai agricultural products
Seek investments in favor of farmers
Disseminate information to farmers
Advocacy
Pay attention to farmers' issues, esp livelihood
Openly establish cooperation between NGOs and govt
Govt should provide opportunity for people to be involved in planning related to people's interests Irrigation system
Expand irrigation system in rural areas
Restore and rebuild damaged dams and reservoirs that are geared towards villages (not big dams)
Health
Promote health services from village level
Strengthen and restructure health sector (pay attention to medical staff and provide people
with medicines)
(Items not raised yet in discussion - agriculture, infrastructure, human resource, credit)
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NGOs can monitor by:
- advocacy
- network
- workshop/seminar (national)
- involvement in planning evaluation
- involvement in giving information about project arrangements
- field survey conducted directly within communities
- contact with donors and asking them for information
- follow up/ check reports/ real activities in communities
- disseminating public information of all government spending
- NGO cooperation with RGC in carrying out
project(s)
- Jointly collecting data in communities
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Kompong Thom Workshop Results
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
1. Who are the poor in your communities? |
Rich families exploit poor families
Some village (local) leaders
misrepresent their community
eg flooding in nearby villages not
reported to 'hide poverty'
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Widows
Families with many children
Disabled persons
Illiterate people
People with no skills
Powerless people because without bargaining power viz group leaders Demobilized soldiers
Illness
Women-headed households
Victims of natural calamities
Internally-displaced people
Victims of domestic violence
People without draft animals for agriculture
Families with many children
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2. What are NGO/poor people's approaches to poverty reduction? |
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- Credit to start other business
- Sell their labor
- Sell property (eg land) to have money to initiate other activities
- Participation in self-help groups, solidarity groups, formerly relief
associations) to expand income generation - animal raising, fishing, home garden
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3. Should government provide poverty reduction funds to NGOs? If so, what mechanisms should be set up to prevent corruptio |
Money to be channeled through Cambodian NGO network so that NGOs can get funds easily
Set up a Steering Committee to monitor if project implementation is effective or not
Set up regulations on how to use funds for poverty
reduction?
Poor communities should get bulk of funds allotted for poverty reduction (rather than salaries of staff) |
Money should be given to Cambodian NGOs through IOs, or full budget that is needed can be given by IO
Poverty reduction funds can also be channeled through Cambodian NGO networks
Transparency, avoid corruption, avoid bureaucratic red tape (long process) |
Workshop results - Ratanakiri hilltribe community leaders
Group 1 |
Group 2 |
1-What kind of development will improve the well-being of people in your community? |
- Try to involve communities in planning so that communities priorities are reflected· Involve all sectors (health, agriculture, education, technical committee, etc)·
- Development and govt workers should adapt themselves to the communities·
- Respect people's time
- People are usually busy, if devt workers plan something in May - busy time for farmers cultivating their farms
- Also, villages have special ceremonies that forbid outsiders from entering the village
- Planting and special ceremonies are most important events
- Issue land rights to local communities
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May the govt support local communities
Help provide jobs to local communities
The relevant institutions should provide necessary
training to poor communities
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2- What kind of projects will affect custioms, solidarity and livelihoods in your community? |
Illegal logging should be considered in relation to impact on local communities and natural resources
Land concessions cause problems for communities (lack of land for cultivation)
Planning without participation from local communities
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Flood Crops are destroyed by pests
Loss of wildlife
Drought 9insufficent rain)
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3- How can local communities participate in PRSP process? |
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Ratanakiri IO/NGO Workshop Results
Group 1 - International Organizations |
Group 2: Cambodian group |
1- Main causes of poverty |
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Occupation and alienation of customary land
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Degradation of natural resources
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Lack of adequate nutrition
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Government corruption
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Poor health
- lack of knowledge about health prevention (health education)
- inadequate health services; inadequate access and appropriateness (health system not motivated to reach local population/poor)
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Low literacy rates / Lack of access to basic education
- inappropriate curriculum / system for indigenous minorities
- Khmer language curriculum excludes most minority population
- Very low access for women: - cultural, system· Lack of access to markets (for cash crops)
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Lack of marketing skills, commerce skills, numeracy ($)
- unable to compete in monetary/market-oriented economy
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Lack of legal framework and titling system for customary land tenure (i.e. community)· Lack of knowledge of rights and procedures for claiming rights (land, forest...)
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Lack of recognition of local community and local government as being important stakeholders in forest management - - i.e. forest is a multi-sectoral resource and should be managed in multi-sectoral way - currently managed by ‘timber producers’ (i.e., Forestry Department) at expense of other uses
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Decreasing forest resource is causing decreasing emergency food supply (in drought years, after floods, etc)
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1- Main causes of poverty |
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2- Poor people to be targeted by poverty reduction plans |
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indigenous women-headed household
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local communities living under land and natural resource pressure
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local communities living in isolated areas and near the border
vulnerable people (affected by natural and man-made disaster)
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3- Recommendations to help reduce poverty |
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Roads, infrastructure projects should be undertaken with very stringent E/SIA and transparency/accountability- impact on rate of deforestation, wildlife and natural resources trade- accelerated land grabbing
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Training of indigenous people to be teachers in their own communities
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Develop bi-lingual (Khmer-native language) curriculum for local schools
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Development of cash crops and markets should be designed to target rural poor/indigenous communities, rather than investors
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Focus on developing appropriate system and procedures for providing land security for indigenous communities (and other rural poor)- this absolutely must precede any cash crop development/investment
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Moratorium on titling of land / sale of land / establishing crops on customary land by people who are not community members - - until after all customary land has been mapped/documented/secured
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Accountability/Transparent government
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Health: ___________
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Education related to human rights, land rights, legal processes
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Decentralized and integrated planning
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Cash flow should have clear procedures, transparency, and be directed to local communities
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Funds channeled through line departments should be used properly and reach local communities
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Any development plan should respect indigenous rights
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Government should take more consideration of development projects proposed by indigenous communities
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