Publication: Project to Enhance Capacity in Social Accountability : On the Local Cambodian Capacity Building Institute
Date
2010-06-28
ISSN
Published
2010-06-28
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The World Bank is financing a program
that would enhance the capacity of civil society in Cambodia
to promote good governance through social accountability.
Reforms have been undertaken in different parts of the world
through the practice of social accountability led by civil
society actors. The program aims to catalyze a process of
learning from the different experiences from other countries
as well as from initiatives in Cambodia in order to respond
to the challenge identified by the Royal Government of
Cambodia in its Rectangular Strategy 2004 good governance is
a pre-condition to economic development. The program is
designed to enhance and strengthen the practice of social
accountability in preparation for the Demand for Good
Governance Project (DFGG) of the Royal Government of
Cambodia supported by the World Bank. The World Bank Program
to Enhance Capacity for Social Accountability (PECSA) aims
to assist the people of Cambodia in strengthening governance
by expanding social accountability practices
through:Enhancing civil society organizations
capacity in the use of social accountability tools, adapting
international social accountability practices to the
Cambodian context, providing sub grants to develop and pilot
social accountability practicesPECSA will provide
resources for the following program components, training,
mentoring and awareness raising, action learning and tool
development. A network of social accountability
practitioners and a resource center, and monitoring and
evaluation as a learning process
Citation
“World Bank. 2010. Project to Enhance Capacity in Social Accountability : On the Local Cambodian Capacity Building Institute. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/946811fa-3e85-5fb4-9458-9150673f8d93 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”