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Australia-Cambodia Development Cooperation Strategy
Performance Assessment Framework |
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Goal: To assist
Cambodia reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development
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Royal Cambodian Government (RGC) development outcomes 2015
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Government of Australia country strategy objectives 2015 |
Strategy objective indicators |
Government of Australia assistance |
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– what Strategy objectives are expected to influence |
- where Australian aid adds value |
- how we know if we have achieved our objectives
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- how we work towards the strategy objectives |
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Rural Poverty
Reduction through Agricultural Development |
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Accelerated growth in the value of national agricultural
production |
1. Increase in the value of agricultural production and
smallholder income in targeted provinces. |
·Increased value of rice
and fruit and vegetables produced in targeted provinces
leading to increased farmer income
· Increased
participation of agribusiness in rice and fruit and
vegetable value chains in targeted provinces.
· Expanded research
and extension activities supporting rice and fruit and
vegetable value chains and addressing their associated constraints
Increased area under improved water management and
irrigation. |
Through a major agribusiness initiative operating in
selected provinces that will-
· Support pro-poor
agricultural enterprises and improvement of the business
environment;
· Investment in water
management systems (particularly irrigation) for the purpose
of increased production;
· Provide support to
MAFF and WOWRAM to strengthen policies and systems of public
institutions that support agricultural enterprise. |
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2. Improvements in quality and use of rural infrastructure |
·Higher traffic volume on
improved rural roads
· Lower passenger and
freight vehicle operating costs, travel times on improved
rural roads
· Increase in no. of
rural households benefiting from electricity provision
· Improved
arrangements for infrastructure operations and maintenance
Substantial progress on clearance of land mines/UXO in
priority areas, releasing land to poor communities for
productive purposes. |
·Southern Coastal
Corridor Project (ADB/GMS)
· Road Asset Management
Project (ADB)
· Rural
Electrification and Transmission project (World Bank)
· Support to UNDP’s
Clearing For Results program and Australian NGO Cooperation
Agreement Integrated Mine Action and Development projects.
[See Mekong Subregional PAF for more details] |
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Health
Service Delivery |
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Increased access to quality health services for the poor,
women and children, progressing towards the health MDGs. |
3. Improved RGC management, financing, monitoring and
evaluation systems for health service delivery
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·Improved quality,
funding and implementation of Annual Operating Plans
· Increased number of
midwives and coverage of midwifery services
· Increased number
of births attended by trained health staff
Progress towards a national health financing system to
ensure access of the poor to health services
· Reduction of HIV
prevalence among drug users |
·Support and
participation in the multi-donor Health Sector Support
Program 2 · Policy and technical engagement
in the joint RGC-donor Health Technical Working Group and
health partners group
· Support
initiatives that will strengthen the impact of HSSP2 or
provide evidence for dialogue, including: UNFPA program to
expand access to reproductive, maternal and child health;
GTZ collaboration linking Health Equity funds and
Community-Based Health Insurance; support to the University
of Health Science to link with Australian institutions to
expand and improve midwifery training.
· Introduce harm
reduction approaches to Cambodia for drug users at high risk
of HIV infection. |
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4. Improved focus on hygiene and sanitation in water supply
programs |
·Improved access to
basic sanitation and safe water for poor households in
target provinces · Contribute to reduced
morbidity from waterbourne diseases. |
·Partnerships with the
ADB, UNICEF and World Bank to implement water supply and
sanitation programs in rural and provincial areas
· Community Development
Fund small grants for community level water supply
infrastructure and sanitation |
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Law and
Justice |
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Increased individual rights and responsibilities in the
justice system for juveniles and vulnerable groups. |
5. Improved capacity and commitment of courts, prisons,
police and provincial authorities to function effectively
and equitably (particularly in dealing with vulnerable
groups).
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·Improved management
capacity in MOJ, Courts, CNP and GDoP
· Increased reporting
of violence and sexual violence offences in partner
provinces.
· Improved court
processes, including reductions in excessive pre-trial
detention
· Increased
implementation of the corrections management system for
safe, secure and humane treatment of prisoners
· Crime prevention
and community safety initiatives established in partner
provinces with collaboration between communities and police
and provincial authorities |
·Cambodia Criminal
Justice Assistance Project III to implement support to
courts, police, prisons, provincial authorities and NGOs on
agreed priorities, focusing on needs of juveniles and women.
· Collaborate with the
Australian Federal Police to support police reform, through
CCJAP and regional trans-national crime initiatives.
· Collaborate with
DANIDA, through CCJAP, to develop monitoring and evaluation
systems for legal sector reform, model courts project to
implement reforms in four provinces.
· Policy and
technical support for the RGC Council for Legal and Judicial
Reform to coordinate donor and government inputs towards
Legal and Judicial Reform Strategy objectives.
· Policy and
technical engagement in the Legal and Judicial Reform
Technical Working Group, including as donor lead facilitator
to the end of 2009
· NGO Co-operation
Agreement projects on child protection and domestic
violence, Mekong regional anti-trafficking and child sex
tourism initiatives. |
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Sustainable
Economic and Resource Management |
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Greater alignment of financial resources to priority goals
(to enable improved delivery of basic services) |
6. Enhanced public financial management through the
predictable and timely flow of funds while ensuring adequate
controls |
·Higher standards of
management and accountability in the mobilization and
effective use of public resources in implementing the
National Strategic Development Plan
· Improved budget
credibility including enhanced budget formulation and
comprehensiveness
· Improvements to
accountability and internal control systems that strengthen
compliance and transparency |
·Support the RCG’s
Public Financial Management Reform Program through
participation in a donor SWAp and associated financial
contributions to a multi-donor trust fund managed by the
World Bank. · Ongoing monitoring (and possible
future support) of joint donor initiatives that further
advance governance reform and dialogue with the RCG such as
the multi-donor Poverty Reduction and Growth Operation. |
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7. Improve management of natural resources (water) |
·RGC policies,
legislation, and regulations in Mekong Basin reflect
Integrated Water Resource Management
· participatory
planning decision making processes utilised by RGC Mekong
National Committee
· evidence of
scenario Mekong Basin models (and other tools) informing RCG
decisions on water resource management |
·Mekong River
Commission Integrated Capacity Building Program
· CSIRO/MRC Climate
Change Program
· MRC Navigation
Program
· Basin Development
Plan II
[See Mekong Subregional PAF for more details] |
