Author: Mak Sithirith
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-98-11
Year: 1998
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1998
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Soparth Ponquan (Co-Chairperson); Reidar Dale, Bettina Buchel, (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Eighty five percent of Cambodian population are farmers lived in rural area. Ninety percent of them are under poverty line. Alleviation of the poverty becomes the main objective of the Royal Government of Cambodia. In order to alleviate the poverty, the government expected that developing rural area is an effective tool to reach the poor at the rural areas. As a result, both international non-governmental organizations and government throughout the country have applied rural development concept and activity to meet poverty alleviation objective of the government. Different approaches for rural development have been used by different agencies in order to cope with the rural constraints. Some of them implemented the activities based on the institutional approach which strengthened the institutions involved in rural development and others on non institutional approach that used the community based projects to reach the poor in the specific community. Observing the problems of mismanagement on rural development implementation, the institutional framework has been set up by the Royal Government of Cambodia for the whole country. However, these institutions are still weak to serve the rural areas due to lack of experience. Therefore, the SEILA Program was established under the support of the UNDP/CARERE to experiment on the model that can be used for the whole country. The purpose of this study is to identify and recommend an institutional framework to promote rural development at the local level, to focus on the people’s participation and people centered development. With these purposes, the in-depth study was conducted on SEILA Program in Siem Reap Province for ‘more information. In addition, two communes namely Kchas and Kien Sanke with six villages were selected from the Sotr Nikum district for the study with a focus on the Local Planning Process. The study assesses the partners involved in the Local Planning Process implementation such as UNDP/CARERE, Government and People Organizations. Bo
Scholarship Donor(s): Katolischer Academischer Auslender Dienst (KAAD)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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