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At the 4th CG Meeting in May 2000, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) had launched “A New Development Cooperation Partnership Paradigm for Cambodia”. The purpose was to engage our external partners, NGOs, and national stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue to move Cambodia forward to a new paradigm for development cooperation through enhanced partnerships. This new paradigm has as its foundation the principles that are being advocated by OECD/DAC and in other international arena to improve the effectiveness of development cooperation programs. Since then, the Royal Government and its development partners have made significant progress in translating the new paradigm into practice. In addition to the Working Groups, under the CG mechanism that have been established since 1999, the RGC and its external partners agreed at the 6th CG Meeting held in 2002 to establish a Government-Donor Partnership Working Group. The Working Group commissioned three studies to collect and analyze the necessary background information, in early 2003, to begin its work on tackling the harmonization issues. Sub-Working Groups (SWG) consisting of Government and development partner's representatives were formed to facilitate and guide the work of the study teams on each of the following three studies: i. Capacity building practices of Cambodia's development partners. ii. Practices and lessons learned in the management of development cooperation. iii. National guidelines for development cooperation. It is my pleasure to present the report of the Study Team entitled, "Capacity Building Practices of Cambodia's Development Partners: A Discussion paper". The study was carried out under the overall supervision of H.E. Mr. Sum Manit, former Secretary of State, Council of Ministers and former Secretary General, Council for Administrative Reforms, the Chairperson of SWG for the study. It was presented by the Study Team at a meeting of the Government-Donor Partnership Working Group held on 23 January 2004 at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). The report has been revised based on comments received at the Government-Donor Partnership Working Group's meeting concerning the factual information. This report represents the completion of the first phase of this study. This Report presents factual information and analysis on the capacity building practices of our development partners as well as recommendations of the Study Team. I would like to note that the recommendations presented in the report reflect the views of the study team. In terms of the next steps, the report was officially submitted in March 2004 to H.E. Mr. Ngo Hongly, the new Secretary General of the Council for Administrative Reforms who also assumed the role of the Chairperson of the SWG for the study. Under the umbrella of the SWG for the study at the Council for Administrative Reforms, discussions are being held to: (i) arrive at a set of recommendations on which there is consensus, and (ii) to develop an action plan for their implementation. Last, but not least, on behalf of all the members of the Partnership Working Group and in my capacity as the Chairman, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the United Nations Development Programme for its generous support for the preparation of this report and the Study Team for their valuable contributions. My thanks are also extended to all government and donor agencies, especially the members of the SWG, namely Australia, EC, Germany, Japan, Sweden, UNDP, and UNFPA who have shared their valuable time and have facilitated and guided the work on this study.
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