 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
CHAPTER III |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PRIORITY GOALS AND TARGETS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
3.01 As affirmed in the NSDP, the Royal Government is clear in its long term vision and commitment to achieve a socially cohesive, educationally advanced, and culturally vibrant Cambodia without poverty, illiteracy and ill health where all Cambodians live in harmony free of hunger, inequity, exclusion, and vulnerability, and where all citizens are able to reach their full potential in their chosen vocations to contribute to further progress of the country and for an increasingly higher standard of living. RGC's Rectangular Strategy clearly specifies the immediate agenda, viz., (1) promotion of economic growth; (2) generation of employment for all Cambodian workers; (3) implementation of needed reforms to ensure equity and social justice; and (4) enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of reform programmes in all sectors towards reduction in poverty and achievement of sustainable development. In this context, NSDP is about the immediate, medium-term future steps and targets to move rapidly towards the long-term vision of Cambodia. 3.02 Poverty Reduction in the fastest possible manner is RGC's foremost priority. Given that 90% of the poor live in rural areas, priority attention is needed through NSDP to speed up development in rural areas. In this context and by themselves, achievement of CMDGs, especially for poverty reduction and human development, is of high priority but, this crucially depends on the totality, synergy and outputs of many other developments and circumstances, such as, to mention a few: political and social stability; rule of law; maintenance of public order; critical reforms in public administration and sectors; enhanced gender equity; the steady, sustainable, strong, equitable, balanced and well distributed (geographic region and socio-economic sector-wise) macro economic growth involving all other sectors, each with its own goals and targets. NSDP clearly notes that there can be no significant progress without, for instance:
3.03 NSDP has considered all critical aspects of Cambodia's socio-economic needs, priorities, goals and targets, and synthesised CMDGs with other factors including cross-cutting elements to move the country speedily forward on the road to equitable overall socio-economic development with priority attention to poverty reduction as well as to significant reduction in regional disparities and between the rich and the poor. As a broad framework to guide and steer the development process, it has identified priority goals and targets leaving detailed sub-goals, targets and strategies to be identified and articulated by different sector strategies and plans. The broad goals and targets itemised with poverty reduction as the foremost priority provided in Table 3.2 of NSDP continue to remain valid. Table 3.1 below reproduces Table 3.2 of NSDP with modifications arising from all available latest data for 2005 and 2006. 3.04 RGC remains strongly committed to reaching the overall goals and targets indicated at Table 3.1 and those to be disaggregated and expanded by sector and sub-national levels. Some targets are clearly quite ambitious but RGC is confident that they are achievable if proper investment and human development resources are available. For success, RGC would vigorously pursue all the prioritised strategies and focused actions through the framework of the Rectangular Strategy as outlined in the Chapter IV of NSDP. Monitoring and Evaluation 3.05 Periodic and regular monitoring of implementation and progress of NSDP has been recognised as the key1 to ensure that element of the NSDP as monitoring is necessary to ensure that NSDP activities proceed along the intended path and at the required pace in order to achieve the intended goals and targets. 3.06 In pursuance of Chapter IV of NSDP which outlines the objectives and processes for monitoring and evaluation, an NSDP Monitoring Framework (MF) has been developed and agreed upon among all the four central agencies, viz., MOP, MEF, SNEC and CRDB and approved (see Annex II). It is intended to monitor on an annual basis 26 measurable indicators out of 43 shown in Table 3.2 of NSDP (Table 3.1 below) mainly through data being collected through the ongoing administrative machinery of various line ministries and agencies and by the National Institute of Statistics or as may emerge from periodic surveys. It is not intended to set up separate tracking surveys for this purpose. In addition, line ministries and agencies would continue to gather other important data relevant to their functioning including on detailed CMDGs and provide inputs for the monitoring of NSDP implementation with more detailed and clearer analysis of causes for success or failure in order to enable them to make informed choices and decisions on policy, plans and programmes to be pursued and other administrative actions to be taken to achieve their sectoral goals and targets. The NSDP Monitoring Framework will be reviewed periodically to ensure necessary modifications on the basis of experience gained. 3.07 Administrative data is collected at various levels including at the commune level. The NIS, as part of its mandate under the Statistical Master Plan, will progressively ensure the quality, standard and reliability of the data collection, analysis and presentation at all these levels through capacity development measures. 3.08 In terms of resources for implementing the NSDP, MEF and CRDB as appropriate would ensure that internal and external resources respectively are channelled to NSDP priorities as identified and articulated in the three-year rolling PIPs. CRDB would also continue to maintain and monitor data on EDP pledges, commitments and actual deliveries through the annual DCRs.
Table 3.1: NSDP's Macro-Goals and Critical Indicators (Targets)2
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||