Regional Forum Revisiting CSO
Governance and Accountability
in South East Asia in the
Context of Post-HLF4
Vision: A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges
Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011
Group 1
Key Challenges
•Level of understanding and capacity building
•Sustainable of self-regulation
•Regular learning and sharing information
Effective Strategies
•Sharing across regional experiences
•Vision could be ISO frameworks
•Define the region
•Consider virtual meeting not only face to face
•Creative a regional forum that creates a “ body of knowledge”
•Countries elect to be participate of regional working group
•Promote complementary harmony of the CSOs and governance
program
•Develop principle guideline in the country
Effective Strategies
•Improve self-regulation to be wider recognized
•Capacity building CSO on accountability and code, self regulation
•Advocate and build relationship with government to ensure access
to information , feedback, complaint-response mechanism
•Feedback and comment of issues and challenge
Practical Actions
•Develop regional common principle
•Participation from regional members
•Develop regional feedback system and response from all
stakeholders
•Information sharing, Open space for CSOs
•Promote clear understanding to the public
Regional Platform
Panel Feedback
Group 2
Key Challenges
-Recognition
-Finance, Capacity building
-Feedback community
-CONCERN OF NGO LAW
-Law can be use to suppress
-NGO law could be challenges in CBO in Cambodia
-Restriction of NGO or CSO activity (NGO law)
-Producing result from strategy to practices
-Law of common understanding about legitimacy
-Using transperncy principle to decision making or to implement
actions
-NGO voice not valued understood (lack of understanding)
-DIALOG BETWEEN NGO AND GOVERNMENT
-Difference of common understanding of NGO law between gov’ &
CSO
-Capacity transfer
-Inactive /no membership
-NGO still have weak voice between govt’
Key Challenges
•NGO get the pressure from govt’
•Donor set the agenda(or recognize d setting the agendas
•INGO & NGO accountability each together
Legitimacy include the ability of NGO to fulfill its purpose for
existence
1-Key Challenges in asserting legitimacy and right to
participate in the development, implementation and
monitoring of policies and development plans
-Donor driven
Donor set the agenda(or recognize d setting the agenda
INGO & NGO accountability each together
NGO still have weak voice between govt’
Legal Inactive /no membership
NGO get the pressure from govt’
-Capacity transfer
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Effective Strategies
-Empower CSO to debits on legitimacy issues
-Cambodian NGO indentify the ideal donor
-NGO should be assisted on how to practice transparency
-Experiment : Livelihood, know laded, good governance
-Should NGO law can help CBO in Cambodia
-CSO walk together in one voice to work with Govt’ to reach common
understanding
-Participation of corrupt private sector may unfair the effectiveness of
help…
-Process of evaluation following …
-Strengthen NGO voice & Capacity
-Civil society and accountability
-Capacity building
-Mechansm for evaluation of support (capacity development
Practical Actions
Other Comments
-NGO activity should focus on how to integrate or at least to
contribute to the economic development
-In order to strong voice, CSO need to be accountable to what they
do
-Should NGO law can help CBO in Cambodia
Panel Feedback
-How to involve the private sector in civil society movements: Private
sector now included in global movement through the Busan
document
-Warning on this: private sector in Cambodia is incredibly corrupt
and this might impede our efforts towards development
effectiveness, transparency and accountability
-CSO management needs to familiarize themselves with ethics,
accountability, transparency and to disseminate these skills as well as
practice them (bad NGOs will be rejected from the group)
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Group 3
Key Challenges
CSO network still need to be improve
Disabling environment for CSO because of LANGO and other
restrictive legislation
Shrinking of democratic space
Limited Freedom of Expression
Court not independent
Media not independent
The implementation of demonstration law is not enforced
Lack of capacity of CSOs to engage in government dialogue
Weak opposition
Effective Strategies
More coordination within CSOs to understand common vision
Analyse and provide comments on the draft law, attempts to engage in drafting
of legislation
Focus should be on raising awareness of the people on their rights
Sharing information at the both national and sub-national
Mobilization of people
Practical Actions
More consultative engagement, recognize the view of others
Continued mobilisation of the people
NGO common vision should respect diversity, we don’t need to have
common position
Use media for sharing social issues
Share and update information at both national and sub-national level
Need to give citizens group the voice and listen to the people on the
ground
Strengthening CBOs and people to
More analysis and involve people to give feedback on the law
CSOs need to support the people behind the issues
Challenges
•Few donors care about accountability
•Busan document weak
•Lack of coordination in CSO, need common and strong voice
•Capacity of NGOs
•Some DPs partners don’t recognize CSO as partners but as recipient
of AID
•Emerging donors
•Private sector in Cambodia is incredibly corrupt
• Shrinking of democratic space, eg. NGO Law
Strengths
•Self Regulation
•CSO national and global movement on development effectiveness
•Recognition of CSO in Busan
•Desire to work together nationally and regionally
•Inclusion of private sector actors toward development goals
•Right Based Approach
Needs/Action Steps
Transparency and accountability by all – a true commitment – Self
Regulation and Feedback mechanism
Enabling environment
Recognition of CSO as a development partners by all
Collaboration,, sharing of information (regional learning/mechanism)
Mobilization of people, Strengthen and empower grassroots
community
Involvement of private sector
Next Steps
Working Group to look into the common concept note
Regional Forum Revisiting CSO
Governance and Accountability
in South East Asia in the
Context of Post-HLF4
Vision: A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges
Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011