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As
part of its mandate, the Council for the Development of Cambodia/Cambodian
Rehabilitation and Development Board (CDC/CRDB) produces annually a
Development Cooperation Report (DCR) that provides information on the
Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by external development
partners of Cambodia. This report is based on data collected by CDC/CRDB
from all bi-lateral and multi-lateral partners including IFIs on actual
and planned disbursements of their assistance to Cambodia.
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This Development
Cooperation Report for the year 2001 presents a summary of the estimates
on disbursements of the ODA for the year 2001, and on actual disbursements
as reported by the external partners for the 1992-2000 period. As in the
previous reports, the data on disbursements is summarized by type and
terms of assistance, by sector, and by major donor. In addition, this
report for the year 2001 includes a summary of ODA disbursements by donor
and sector for the year 2001.
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In
terms of methodology, the data for the preparation of the annual
Development Cooperation Reports is collected through a survey
questionnaire that is sent to all bi-lateral and multi-lateral development
partners at the beginning of each year by CDC/CRDB. The survey
questionnaire is designed to collect information on each on-going and
planned program/project for which assistance was or is planned to be
provided. Unfortunately, some of the partners do not provide their
disbursements data by program/project that makes the task of developing a
comprehensive picture of disbursements by type and term of assistance and
sector a bit difficult. Also, not all partners respond to the survey in
time. For the year 2001, the follow-up and data validation activities
continued until the end of April 2002 and include estimates for the
missing data based on the best available information. Thus, the estimates
for the year 2001 have been classified as “provisional”.
For the NGOs, information on disbursements is compiled from data
reported to the NGO Department of the CDC/CRDB by the NGOs.
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In
terms of classification of the ODA data by type and terms of assistance
and sector, the OECD/United Nations standard classification methodology is
used. Under this system, the
type of assistance is classified in the following categories:
Free-Standing Technical Cooperation; Investment-related Technical
Cooperations; Capital/Investment Project Assistance for public investment
projects; Budgetary Aid/Balance of Payments Support; and,
Humanitarian/Emergency Relief Assistance, which includes funds for
repatriation, food and commodity aid channeled through UN Agencies and
NGOs. More information on the definition of type and terms of assistance
is provided in Annex II.
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Many
Donors implement their programs/projects, either in part or entirely,
through UN agencies and/or through non-government organizations (NGOs).
Also, a significant number of co-financing agreements are made by
bi-lateral donor agencies for the use of multi-lateral agencies and
international financial institutions. In order to avoid "double
counting", the disbursements data for the UN agencies have been
grouped in two categories for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001. The first
category shows their “total program delivery” irrespective of the
source of funds. The second category represents a serious attempt to
develop estimates on disbursements of UN agencies “own resources” in
the delivery of their programs for the years 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Similarly, in the case of NGOs adjustments have been made to include only
their "core and/or own resources" (funds from private donors,
religious bodies, philanthropic organizations and other non-government
funding bodies). Finally, the
data on disbursements reported by development partners in their own
currencies have been converted into US $ using the United Nations official
exchange rates.
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The
report begins by outlining briefly the development challenges faced by
Cambodia. The next section presents information on pledges and
disbursements of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) received by
Cambodia. The information on disbursements is provided by type and term of
assistance, by sector and donor, and for the year 2001 by donor and
sector.
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