Cross-cutting Issues

Cross-cutting Issues

NGO Statement to the 2002 CG Meeting

Final Draft of the NPRS

Monitoring and Accountability

The NGO community believes that monitoring and accountability are key to ensuring implementation of the PRSP and other development reforms. Poverty alleviation strategies should focus on lessening the gap between the rich and the poor, between the city and the countryside, and between men and women. Therefore, the NGO community believes that the “yardstick” to evaluate success or failure of reform efforts should be what happens to the poor and most vulnerable groups in Cambodia. These groups would include, among others, the landless poor, exploited women and children, older people or the sick and disabled. NGOs are ready to contribute in this monitoring function through their knowledge and experience working directly at the grassroots level.

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Monitoring and Accountability

The NGO community believes that monitoring and accountability are key to ensuring implementation of the PRSP and other development reforms. Poverty alleviation strategies should focus on lessening the gap between the rich and the poor, between the city and the countryside, and between men and women. Therefore, the NGO community believes that the “yardstick” to evaluate success or failure of reform efforts should be what happens to the poor and most vulnerable groups in Cambodia. These groups would include, among others, the landless poor, exploited women and children, older people or the sick and disabled. NGOs are ready to contribute in this monitoring function through their knowledge and experience working directly at the grassroots level.	Included.