United States Provides $35.10 million for Health and Education in Cambodia
Released in Phnom Penh, September 27, 2010
The United States Government and the Royal Government of Cambodia will sign amendments to two bilateral agreements on September 28 that will provide $35.10 million in 2010 funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support and strengthen Cambodian development priorities in health and education. U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, Carol A. Rodley, will attend the ceremony and sign as a witness. H.E. Long Visalo, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Flynn Fuller, USAID Mission Director, will sign on behalf of their respective governments. USAID’s total funding commitment in health and education through the life of the bilateral agreement is over $277 million.
The amendment to the health agreement provides $33.55 million in grant funds that contribute to achievement of Cambodia’s national health objectives. Funds will support a variety of ongoing activities to reduce the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS; to prevent and control major infectious diseases such as tuberculosis; to improve maternal, reproductive, and children’s health; and to strengthen Cambodian public health systems and the government’s national health priorities.
The amendment to the education agreement provides $1.55 million in grant funds to support the Cambodian government’s education objectives. These funds will support ongoing education programs aimed at improving the quality and relevance of basic education and increasing access to schooling for all children, including minorities, people with disabilities, and the very poor. Activities will also focus on reducing school dropout and repetition rates through improvements in teaching quality, school management training, and measuring student academic achievement.
In addition to health and education activities, USAID supports a broad range of programs designed to benefit all Cambodians in areas such as human rights, rule of law, local governance and decentralization, anti-corruption, natural resource management, economic growth, and combating trafficking in persons. USAID expects to commit a total of $69 million in assistance to Cambodia in 2010.
The signing ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, at 15:30 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Members of the press are invited to attend the ceremony.
The amendment to the health agreement provides $33.55 million in grant funds that contribute to achievement of Cambodia’s national health objectives. Funds will support a variety of ongoing activities to reduce the transmission and impact of HIV/AIDS; to prevent and control major infectious diseases such as tuberculosis; to improve maternal, reproductive, and children’s health; and to strengthen Cambodian public health systems and the government’s national health priorities.
The amendment to the education agreement provides $1.55 million in grant funds to support the Cambodian government’s education objectives. These funds will support ongoing education programs aimed at improving the quality and relevance of basic education and increasing access to schooling for all children, including minorities, people with disabilities, and the very poor. Activities will also focus on reducing school dropout and repetition rates through improvements in teaching quality, school management training, and measuring student academic achievement.
In addition to health and education activities, USAID supports a broad range of programs designed to benefit all Cambodians in areas such as human rights, rule of law, local governance and decentralization, anti-corruption, natural resource management, economic growth, and combating trafficking in persons. USAID expects to commit a total of $69 million in assistance to Cambodia in 2010.
The signing ceremony will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 2010, at 15:30 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Members of the press are invited to attend the ceremony.
7 comments:
This is what we are talking about. The Donor must keep a close eye on this Aids. Because corrupt officials like Hun Xen Clan and his cronies will take them all to themselves...
They will have to provide a clear transparency and keep a good bookkeeping and be sure they report monthly spending to the United States since Hun Xen's corrupted gov't is incompetent.
Sincerely...
Please United States... be sure they exercise Human Rights in Cambodia, real Democracy, not FAKE democracy under Hun Xen's gov't right now..
Hun Xen and his party STOP stealing our votes. We are not voting for Hun Xen people, we are not and we are going to votes for them ever, we did not votes for CPP since 1998 election, and we dont' knwo why they still want to sit in the seat that the Cambodian people did not give them and they need to get the hell out.
STOP STEALING OUR VOTES
WE WANT INTERNATIONAL COMMIUNITY TO COUNT OUR VOTES ONE BY ONE.
THIS IS THE PEOPLE POWER...NOT HUN XEN AND HIS CRONIES POWER.
TO MR. HUN XEN IS YOUR ARE REALLY KHMER PLEASE STEP DOWN.
YOU ARE NOT WELCOME AS A PREMIER ANY MORE....
Pay reasonably the salary of teachers and everything would be OK..
Thank, Americans,
you're on the right way:
buying Cambodian garnment products,
helping Cambodian education..
my grain of salt about above claim or comment: if it's true, then it is the US that feed corruption, don't blame cambodia! you don't put money in a warehouse and not not security surveyance or on it! it's common sense, i guess. so, stop the blame on cambodia, instead, make it transparent, accountable and punish those who are found to be corrupted, etc! that's all! yes, action speaks the loudest, for your information, really!
12:01AM! ah Kwack choymaray is a real stupid monkety???? Kick mother fucker to hell than we will deal with corruption!
Thank you! Uncle SAM...Let just hope that your generosity will reach dirt poor Cambodian people!
It is just amazing with all the fucken help over the years and Cambodia still remain a dirt poor country under Hun Sen leadership!
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