Cambodian government on Tuesday launched the third five-year plan called National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) for 2006-2010.
The core concentration of this five years plan can be summarized to be the target to reduce poverty and to increase national economic growth, said Planning Minister Chhay Than at the launching ceremony attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen and other government officials.
The NSDP for 2006-2010 is a single, overarching document containing government's priority goals and strategies to reduce poverty rapidly, and to achieve other Cambodia Millennium Development Goals (CMDGs) and socio-economic development goals for the benefit of all Cambodians.
Cambodia's first five-year plan, 1996-2000, set out five-year medium-term goals. A second five-year plan followed for 2001-2005.
"Consultations and workshops were organized at various stages of its preparation to define priority goals and other key features of the NSDP that involved the line ministries and agencies, external development partners, NGOs and members of civil society," Chhay Than said.
NSDP consists of seven chapters, including future program and action; progress and current situation; priority goals and targets; key strategies and actions; costs, resources and program; monitoring and evaluation, and conclusion.
NSDP has 15 goals that are aligned to CMDGs and the Rectangular Strategy of the government. Moreover, in order to achieve these goals, 43 targets have been set up in the NSDP, according to Chhay Than.
Cambodian government also set up the target on poverty reduction to 25 percent in the year 2010. Historic causes have left a large proportion of people below the poverty line. However, there has been a rapid decline in poverty levels from 39 percent to 28 percent in 56 percent of the country covered by both 1993 and 2004 surveys. In 2004, 90 percent of the poor were in rural areas and, among the poor, a large share was closer to the poverty line.
"I am strongly convinced that the implementation of this National Strategic Development Plan will have a better result then the previous five-year plans," Prime Minister Hun Sen said, citing that many lessons learned form the implementation of prior plans, and the government firmly committed to make utmost efforts in implementing the Rectangular Strategy.
NSDP was signed by King Norodom Sihamoni on June 23 after it was scrutinized and approved by Council of Ministers on Jan. 27 and endorsed by National Assembly on May 9 and by the Senate on June 9.
Source: Xinhua
The core concentration of this five years plan can be summarized to be the target to reduce poverty and to increase national economic growth, said Planning Minister Chhay Than at the launching ceremony attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen and other government officials.
The NSDP for 2006-2010 is a single, overarching document containing government's priority goals and strategies to reduce poverty rapidly, and to achieve other Cambodia Millennium Development Goals (CMDGs) and socio-economic development goals for the benefit of all Cambodians.
Cambodia's first five-year plan, 1996-2000, set out five-year medium-term goals. A second five-year plan followed for 2001-2005.
"Consultations and workshops were organized at various stages of its preparation to define priority goals and other key features of the NSDP that involved the line ministries and agencies, external development partners, NGOs and members of civil society," Chhay Than said.
NSDP consists of seven chapters, including future program and action; progress and current situation; priority goals and targets; key strategies and actions; costs, resources and program; monitoring and evaluation, and conclusion.
NSDP has 15 goals that are aligned to CMDGs and the Rectangular Strategy of the government. Moreover, in order to achieve these goals, 43 targets have been set up in the NSDP, according to Chhay Than.
Cambodian government also set up the target on poverty reduction to 25 percent in the year 2010. Historic causes have left a large proportion of people below the poverty line. However, there has been a rapid decline in poverty levels from 39 percent to 28 percent in 56 percent of the country covered by both 1993 and 2004 surveys. In 2004, 90 percent of the poor were in rural areas and, among the poor, a large share was closer to the poverty line.
"I am strongly convinced that the implementation of this National Strategic Development Plan will have a better result then the previous five-year plans," Prime Minister Hun Sen said, citing that many lessons learned form the implementation of prior plans, and the government firmly committed to make utmost efforts in implementing the Rectangular Strategy.
NSDP was signed by King Norodom Sihamoni on June 23 after it was scrutinized and approved by Council of Ministers on Jan. 27 and endorsed by National Assembly on May 9 and by the Senate on June 9.
Source: Xinhua
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The plan looks good on paper but the implementation and achievement may only be artificial. From Triangular Strategy to Rectangular Strategy (and the next one may be Pentagonal Strategy?), the gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider all the times.
Alternative views to the causes of Cambodia's various problems and solutions are rarely allowed to reach the public domain, such as TV media. Recently, a planned TV programme was verbally attacked and subsequently cancelled because it contained data and analysis that were not favourable.
We have seen public buildings on prime lands being sold to certain private hands or in exchange for alternative plots somewhere else. Even part of the Royal Palace ground occupied by a ministry, which should be designated as a cultural site, is believed to have been sold off. Efforts to curb corruption are only talks, not actions. The rule of law is only applicable to the small people, even that is also undermined. Drastic measures are sometimes dreamed up overnight and implemented without any public consultation or fact-finding first. So, we see a ban on karaoke bars is replaced with beer gardens bringing out the noise into the open. A ban on tinted car windows is replaced with tinted car windows (some cars even have tinted windshields as well), plus curtains. Illegal checkpoints are replaced with fewer legal checkpoints doing exactly the same things.
The judiciary, police and armed forces are only serving the political elite. Any criticism in the interests of the Cambodian people from the outside is considered as an interference in the internal affairs. And, there are many other shortcomings.
The strategic plan may focus on big things, but the implementors are usually more involved in petty things wasting valuable times and resources. Those responsible ministers should be trying to do their jobs, rather than trying to keep their jobs. But in reality, whose interests come first: nation or personal fortune and power?
All the best to NSDP!
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