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International development assistance CHALLENGE or FAILURE due to location or exclusion

Failures and challenges in Cambodia

As a result of the large amount foreign developments fund that has been flowing into Cambodia for the past years, it “created a dependency culture and encouraged political irresponsibility and corruption” (Al Jazeera , 2008). This meant that instead of helping Cambodians, the foreign aids had caused the Cambodians to be begging and asking for money. This will results in the people not having the motivation to find a job as their countries have abundance amount of aids to help them survive.

Cambodia government has neglected and failed to attain its stated promise of governance
reform. This reform can help Cambodia to come up with a better set of governance so as to ensure a better growth and could help to stop any form of corruptions. (Thun, 2009).
As the political system in Cambodia is unstable, Non-governmental organization are able to register in different ministries. Some NGOs might “register through the Council of Ministers, some with Line Ministries or provincial authorities”. (Riska, n.d.). This has resulted in the government to be unable to track down what organization there are within Cambodia efficient. Being unable to even track what exactly what organizations there are, it is even harder to
monitor what programs have been organized to help the people.

Cambodia is also unable to attract people from the private sector to invest in her. This is due to the lack of skilled manpower that the private sectors demands. “Sustained economic growth cannot be achieved without the supply of skilled manpower that is needed by the private sector.” (Council of development for cambodia, 2002). Foreign direct investment will be able to help produce more jobs which would be able to maintain a better sustainable economic growth.
Underserved infrastructure results in low accessibility for transports, resulting in the access to facilities and aid are lower. (Council of development for cambodia, 2002). For example sanitation could be as low as 8.6 percents in rural areas, compared to 49 percent in urban areas. This will deter aid from reaching the people who need most especially during bad season as it is mentioned that even most tertiary roads are impassable during the wet season.

Recommendation

The most important recommendation is to have people who will monitor how aids are being spent. A set of rules could be clearly defined as to what are the criteria in order for a particular individual to receive aid. One criteria could this could be that in order for an individual to receive aids, he or she must be earning income from somewhere else too. This is to prevent dependency on aids that are given to Cambodia.

While asking governments to make promises, it is also recommended to write out a timeline or a framework. A written document would help to increase the rate of following what has been promised.

Next is to reform the political framework of Cambodia so that assistance will be documented. This would also include the registration of NGOs within Cambodia. Being able to document the organization there are, it can also increase the chances of NGOs (who are serving the same goal) to collaborate with one another as they would have a better knowledge of what other NGOs there are and increasing communications.

Last recommendation is to provide job through construction of infrastructure. Doing so would be able to solve two problems at one goal. These infrastructures would solve the problem of accessibility and also can help to attract more potential foreign investors to invest in Cambodia, promoting economic growth.

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Works Cited
Al Jazeera . (2008, June 17). Foreign aid in Cambodia . Retrieved June 1, 2010, from Al Jazeera English: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2008/07/200871613851378258.html
Council of development for cambodia. (2002, May). Cambodia's development challenges and recent developments. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from The council of development for cambodia: http://www.cdc-crdb.gov.kh/cdc/development_coor/cambodia_development.htm
Riska, G. (n.d.). Involvement related to poverty alleviation and watershed management Cambodia. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from Mengkoinfo: http://mekonginfo.org/mrc_en/doclib.nsf/0/B2C7B593F8EBDFDAC725682D000AC04C/$FILE/MAINREPORT.html#part3
Thun, V. (2009, May 2). Rethinking the administration and delivery of foreign aid in Cambodia . Retrieved June 1, 2010, from Peace and conflict monitor: http://www.monitor.upeace.org/archive.cfm?id_article=584

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