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Annual Report 2003 : Moving the Poverty Reduction Agenda Forward: Priorities and Outcomes : Mekong

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Cambodia

Strategy and Policy Dialogue.
The country operational strategy focused on economic growth and poverty reduction in line with the Government’s strategy. It identified three priorities. First, to support broadbased development of rural areas, ADB assisted with water resource management while supporting decentralization, rural development, natural resource management, and agriculture reforms. Second, to assist human and social development, ADB facilitated sector-wide approaches in education and health and provided support to improve water supply. Third, to promote private sector development, ADB contributed to the development of the nation’s road network while taking a key role in governance and financial reforms and a supportive role in energy. In addition, ADB provided strategic support to governance in economic planning, public finance, and legal reform while ensuring that an appropriate gender focus existed in all interventions.

Work was completed on the Integrated Fiduciary Assessment and Public Expenditure Review that was implemented with the World Bank and DFID. The Review involved intensive discussions with the Government on streamlining management of public expenditures. ADB has been preparing the new CSP in collaboration with DFID and the World Bank to support implementation of the Government’s National Poverty Reduction Strategy completed in 2003.

Loans and Technical Assistance.
ADB approved five loans totaling $98.3 million for projects to enhance policy and institutional capacities in the agriculture sector, to rehabilitate small- and mediumsized irrigation schemes, to rehabilitate water treatment and sewerage facilities in Sihanoukville, and to construct a power line from the Viet Nam border to Phnom Penh, including the electrification of poor villages along the route. Thirteen technical assistance projects totaling $6.3 million were approved.

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