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Country Assistance Plans - Cambodia : VII. ADB’s Operational Program

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B. Strengthened Role of ADB's Cambodia Resident Mission

109. As expected, CARM is increasingly becoming an integral part of the Cambodia country team. CARM is active in donor coordination, high-level policy dialogue, NGO liaison, public relations, TA administration, and project implementation. CARM joins programming missions and leads portfolio review exercises. For donor coordination, CARM participates in the annual CG meeting as well as the semi-annual local donor-Government meetings on the reform agenda (including sharing the duties of the rotating chair responsible for organizing the meeting). CARM represents ADB in policy discussions through these meetings and meetings of the donor groups on natural resource management, fiscal reform, public administration reform, social sector reform, demobilization, and legal reform. In addition, CARM engages in discussions with senior Government officials on critical policy issues, particularly governance and development planning.

110. CARM frequently engages the local and foreign media for disseminating information on ADB operations in Cambodia. Currently developing a knowledge base of ADB documents, which will be easily accessible via the Internet, CARM maintains a library, open to the public, of publications of the Government, ADB and other agencies. CARM administers several TAs focusing on governance and portfolio management. Where staff resources allow, CARM participates in critical project processing missions and provides critical ground support for other ADB project missions. Finally, CARM is expected to play a strategic supportive role in ADB’s efforts to facilitate Government ownership of sector development in water resource management, roads, and education—which will be carried out in part through provision of capacity-building TA.

111. In accordance with the Resident Mission Policy, CARM’s capacity is being strengthened through provision of additional staff resources and through mechanisms for closer coordination with PW3 (including more frequent consultation visits to Cambodia by the Cambodia desk). Prior to 2000, CARM staff included the Resident Representative, two national officers—one for implementation and one for administration, and one support staff. In 2000, a second headquarters staff was added to CARM to strengthen implementation management as well as another support staff to assist in gathering economic information. Plans in 2001-2003 are to add an additional national officer to further enhance project implementation capabilities.

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