- The document summarizes a national roundtable discussion on including vulnerable people in local development programs in Cambodia. - It provides background on the objectives and agenda of the roundtable, including presentations from Handicap International, Save the Children, Cambodian Development Mission for Disability, and the Department of Local Administration. - The roundtable brought together various stakeholders including target groups, partners, NGOs, government representatives, donors, and the press to discuss challenges and successes of inclusive local development projects and provide recommendations.

1. REPORT
National Round Table
Local Inclusive
Development
© P. Vermeulen / Handicap International
© W. Daniels pour Handicap International
18 December 2013
Inter Continental Hotel
Phnom Penh
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HI Cambodia & Thailand Program

2. Objective of the National Round Table
on including vulnerable people in Commune/Sangkat Investment Program
Through dialogue, share and gain support
among national and sub national
authorities, stakeholders and donors
involved in decentralization about most
disadvantaged groups’ participation to
local governance

3. Agenda of the National Roundtable
on including vulnerable people in Commune/Sangkat Investment Program
Morning session presentations
Handicap International
Cambodian Development Mission to Disability
Save the Children, and
Department of Local Authorities
Afternoon session World café

4. Welcome speech
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
The decentralization process launched by the Royal
Government of Cambodia offers unique opportunity to
promote pro-poor development and democracy.
Despite the progress made, the challenges remain many.
Today, we choose the roundtable to insist on the
importance of supporting regular dialogue & exchanges to
address these challenges. Large exchanges ensuring all
stakeholders can input and come with their knowledge and
experience. Exchange between citizens and local authorities, stakeholders involved aside
them, national authorities and donors engaged into poverty reduction. Exchanges that can
lead to a change.
I hope learning from each other and confronting our experience will help us identifying
appropriate ways to foster empowerment, participation and equity for the communities of
Cambodia.
Last but not least, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the European Union and
the Government of the United Kingdom that have been supporting HI and have made this
workshop possible.
Mr. Benjamin NGUYEN
Handicap International Programme Director Cambodia and Thailand

5. Participants
Target groups - Mr. Soeum Soy, Mr Kong Pove, Ms. Choy Oun, Mr. Seng Chey (CDRPs)
Ms. Rem Srey Nom and Mr. Run Chetra (Child group) Mr. Pov Chhen (BDPO) and Say Sothean
(KCDPO)
Partners - Mr Yim Mean, Mr. Touch Vuth, Mr. Nginn Saorath and Ms. Phum Lakena (CDPO)
NGOs - Ms Um Sokom (WOMEN). Mr Nhip Thy and Ms Chan Dara (CDMD). Mr.Nep Sinthai (API), Uk
Pheakdey (ADD), Ms. Nong Yarida (SC), Ms. Thoin Sean Lay (SNV), Mr. Ngy San (CBM), Mr. Phanna
Chhim (PLAN), Mr. Dustin (Associates), Mr. Peng Samnang (DDSP)
Government - Village and Commune Council - Mr. Norm Nuam (Battambang), Mr. Prak Sarom
(Kampong Cham), Mr.Mot Roun (Battambang), Ms. Dem Oun (Kampong Cham), Mr Mon Sinat
(Kampong Spue), Mr. Heng Sophary (Battambang), Mr. Sara Want (Battambang). District – Ms. Un
Chanta (Kampong Cham), Mr. Mean Pv (Kamong Cham). Provincial – Mr. Kong Vutha (POSVY
battambang)) , Mr. Prak Tith (Kampong Cham), Mr. Moul Thon (Battambang), Mr. Meas Uy (Takao),
National – Mr. Dy Sovarm (MEF), Mr. Lao Veng (MoSVY), Mr. Pok Sovandara, Mr. Nhav Tang (MoI),
Mr. Ing Sambath (DAC), Ms. Mao Malis (NCDD) and Mr. Seth Soman (MRD)
Donors - Mr. Bou Noeun (EU), Ms. Anne Lobell and Mr. Kosal Vathanak (UNICEF), Bak Tokoyo
(AisAid)
Press - Mr. Meas Savoung, Mr. Chim Ratha, San Vovanara, Mr. Chea Sarith, Chem Dina, Mr. Hok
Sokrin, Chihim Makara. Oum Vang, Eang Bunrith, Mr. Chao Soeun , Ms. Chandy

6. Vision & mission
Handicap International
Work alongside people with
disabilities and vulnerable
populations, offering them
assistance and supporting
them in their efforts to
become self-reliant
Rights based approach,
empowerment, participation
are important principles of
intervention
Save the Children
Our vision is a world in which
every child attains the right
to survival, protection,
development and
participation.
To inspire breakthroughs in
the way the world treats
children, and to achieve
immediate and lasting
change in their lives
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
A Society for all where people
with disabilities live with
dignity and prosperity
To coordinate and build
capacity of people with
disabilities, communities, and
stakeholders to provide equal
opportunity for people with
disabilities to fully participate
in all development efforts

7. Local Inclusive Development Projects
Duration
Locations
Target
groups
Handicap
International
People with disabilities and
their families
Local authoritiesvillage/Commune level,
District and Provincial level
Battambang and Kampong
Cham provinces in 8
districts: Choeng Prey, Prey
Chhor, Tbong Khmom,
Chamkar Loe, Maung
Reussey, Banan, Bavel, and
Thmorkol
March 2011 – December
2013 (30 months) with EU
funding
January 2013 – December
2015 with UK Government
support
Save the Children
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
40 Children and Youth Led
Group (CYLGs)
33 Children and Youth Led
Group (CYLGs)
Persons with disabilities,
family of persons with
disabilities, and community
people
Prey Veng province in
Peam Ro district in
Kampong Cham province in
Oreang Ov district
Phnom Penh, Kandal,
Takeo, Kampot, and
Kampong Speu province
2013 - 2015
2010 – 2012
2013 - 2015

8. Partners & Stakeholders
Partners
Handicap
International
Cambodia Disabled People
Organization (CDPO)
Opérations Enfants du
Cambodge (OEC)
Nak Akphivath Sahakum
(NAS)
Stakeholders
Save the Children
Stakeholders: Disability
People Organisations,
Service Providers, and
Local Authorities
WOMEN
Phnom Srey
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
Commune Disability
Committee
Disability People
Organisations and Self-help
groups
Provencal and District Office
Social Affairs Veterans and
Youth
PIDPA/PoP
Commune Council,
Community
Schools
Health Centre,
Pagodas
Local NGO, and Government
Agency

9. CDMC
Presentations
Save the Children
Handicap International

10. Approach
Handicap International
Save the Children
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
Twin track approach
Empower to promote dignity,
respect and equity
Promoting inclusive
development while addressing
particular needs of people with
disabilities
Developing a knowledge about
disability issues
DO & WCCC
advocacy
Supporting representation &
participation
Raise capacities of CDPO and
two provincial DPOs
Creation of partnerships
between non-state actors and
sub-national level authorities
Build capacities of local
stakeholders
PD & WCCC
WOMEN
Representation &
participation
To promote participation
of people with disabilities
in the community
development, and increase
the role of the community
coordination of
comprehensive CBR services.
Through:
20% of commune budget increased for
children’s issues
C/S & CCWC
Childr
en
Group
s
NGO
PS
CAPACITY BUILDING
Parents
/Care
givers
Build capacity of CBR staff and
partners;
Set up Community Disability
Committees
Empower people with
disabilities
Coordinate advocacy network
and referral systems

11. Tools Local Inclusive Development
Handicap
International
Save the Children
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
Barrier assessment
guideline
Participatory Training
Manuals
CIP Poster and Agendas
For All
Fact sheets Inclusive
development and
Disability issues
Satisfaction survey and
quality of life tools
Capacity assessment
Social service mapping
Follow up
Coaching
Training modules
Monitoring tools
Video and Radio Spots
Newsletter/Posters/Leafle
ts
UNCRPD/Law on the
Protection and Promotion
of Rights of Persons with
Disabilities
Evaluation Report of
CDMD-CBR Project 2012
Study Report on Effective
of CDC 2013

12. Local Inclusive Development Struggles
Handicap International
The complexity of the CIP
process changing roles
and responsibilities
Commitment and
understanding of local
authorities towards
inclusive development
Level of understanding of
citizens, included people
with disabilities of the CIP
process
Limited participatory
management within the
CIP
Financial resources /
budgeting capacities
limited of the CIP results
Save the Children
Communes still have
limited budget and
unclear responsibilities
relating to social services.
Late budget disbursement
from provincial level to
communes.
Limited capacity of CCWC
in terms of coordination
with relevant sectors.
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
Limited knowledge and
experiences
Limited fund for social
work at commune level
Limited support from
national level
Lack good cooperation
amongst relevant NGOs,
government agencies, etc

13. Local Inclusive Development Successes
Handicap International
Save the Children
☺ Establishments of Disability
Village Networkers (DVNs),
electing their Commune
Disability Representative
Person (CDRP)
☺ People with disabilities
gained more knowledge on
and got more active at
village and commune levels
☺ Local Authorities interest
and actions to mainstream
disability inclusive issues
into the CIP process
☺ Stakeholders (service
providers) support inclusive
disability development
projects
☺ Development of inclusive
awareness materials and
step-by-step training
materials
☺ Commune Councils have
integrated children’s issues
in Commune Investment
Program (CIP) 2014.
☺ Increased involvement of
children and young people
in CIP processes.
☺ Improved relationship
between community people
and local authorities in
commune development
processes.
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
☺ 42 CDCs established and
trained
☺ 366 partners and
stakeholders trained on
rights base and disability
inclusive
☺ 135 communes in target
areas integrated disability
into their development
plans
☺ People with disabilities live
in CDC commune received
services better than PwDs in
non-CDC commune
☺ Many people with
disabilities and families,
their situation is now either
better or same as others

14. Local Inclusive Development
Recommendations
Handicap International
Include Local Authorities
Added two extra steps
within the CIP process
Share tools e.g. iAgenda
with other stakeholders
Strengthen the local
authorities abilities
Design accountability
mechanisms to reinforce
step 5 of the CIP process
Expand from people with
disabilities to all
disadvantaged groups
Save the Children
Push for more budget
allocation for children’s
issues from national level.
Continue to provide
capacity building to CCWC
on planning and social
services, especially
relating to children.
Cambodian
Development Mission
for Disability
Need capacity support
from national level
Need to strengthen
collaboration and
cooperation amongst
relevant GOs, NGOs,
private, people with
disabilities, and
community
Need to increase
involvement persons with
disabilities

15. Questions & Answers
Question 1 to HI “What do you mean by exclusion ?”
Answer: Here are two way of exclusion, intended and non-intended, in the development
process. For example, you have invited people with disabilities to join meeting, but the
meeting room is at the 1st floor and only to be reach with a stair, so people with moving
difficulties are excluded from the meeting. Another example, latrines are built for
everybody but the door is only 80 cm width a person using a wheelchair cannot enter the
toilet, the door wide should be a minimum of 90cm.
Question 2 to HI “How to address disability into the CIP ?”
Answer: We added 2 additional steps - Preparation Step - (pre-step 1) to brainstorm
problems/issues of people with disabilities in the village, based on last year CIP
experience and the daily life of the villagers, an Inclusive village table 1.1 is drafted by
and agreed on by people with disabilities of the village to be presented at CIP Step 1
Village meeting, and - Support Step - to lobby, jointly with C/C Chief and Commune
disability Focal Point after STEP 2 and before STEP 3 in order to gain support from
relevant non-governmental organizations, stakeholders, service providers and/or the
business community who have shown interest to support the commune development that
improve the needs and demands of All citizens and at the same time of people with
disabilities and their family members living in the village/Commune. With signing a
adapted inclusive Temporary Agreement (TA) letter, organizations, local stakeholders,
service providers and/or business community members promise to support and lobby for
your inclusive actions/projects at the District Integration Workshop (CIP Step 3).

16. Question and Answers
Questions 3 to HI “How to monitor inclusive project, and what mechanism are
there ?”
Answer: We acknowledge that this is something we need to work more in order to improve
it in future. So far, we have focal person at commune level who pass the information of
progress to CDRPs but CDRPs themselves have not participated directly due to no
invitation.
Question 4 to CDMD “Where is Contribution Fund come from?”
Answer: The contribution of 800.000 Riels is funded by the CS fund under social
intervention budget line. This fund will use to support social service activities, but not
specifically for people with disabilities. CS has no clear idea about the allocation.
Question 5 to CDMD “To what extent, do people with disabilities receive ID poor
card?”
Answer: The precise number of people with disabilities that receive the ID poor cards is not
known, we believe that it are quite a lot.
Question 6 to Save the Children “Are disable youth and children include in the
process?”
Answer. Yes, they are welcome to join the children group. Children with disabilities, when
they show interest are included in the group.
Question 7 to Save the Children “How to include private sector into process?”
Answer: In practice, we invite credit service and the bank into the discussion.

17. Summary of the Presentation of
Department of Local Administration
National Level
Department of Local Administration is established to support CS council in
decentralization implementation based on CS admin law
Roles and responsibilities of the department are defined in a Prakas #
185, dated 07th May 2002;
Six offices under this department
Dept. of Local
Administration (DoLA)
Admin
Office
M&E and CS
Support Office
Education
and CD
Office
Planning
Statistic and
Info Office
Finance
Office
Research
and Tech
Office

18. Challenges during implementation
C/S council is replaced every 5 years
CIP Planning schedules are ad hoc basis delayed (start sometime in
September)
Revised CIP procedures e.g. budget code
Dependency of C/S members on provincial facilitation
Lack of human resources in provincial divisions and district offices
CS members have difficulties to understand and lack practice with CIP tools
provided by partners
Limited participatory facilitation skills of C/S member
Timing and venue of C/S meeting not convenient for all citizens
Limited participation of citizens
Low C/S funds, decrease of additional funds from the International
community
Change in C/S projects e.g. Infra structure and service projects
Work overload of C/S members
Suggestion:
NGOs to support capacity building to government officers in accordance to
rules and regulations of provincial divisions and district offices.

19. New Provincial and District structure

20. Question and Answers to DoLa
Question 1 “How to calculate C/S
Fund allocation?”
Answer: The C/S fund allocation is
calculated based on three criteria:
a) Equal share
b) Total population
c) Poverty score
Question2 “Why does C/S project
focus mainly on infrastructure?”
Answer: Because infrastructure is
visible. The C/S council would like to
show their result of development to
the people. The Ministry can not
influent the decision of C/S council.
Question 3. “Does MoI has a policy
on disability inclusive ?”
Answer: Yes, this year we included
additional structure into the C/S
fund project design to ensure
accessibility.

21. What is The World Café ?
The World Café is an international way to create a
living network of conversations around that
matters.
It is a methodology which enables people (from 12
to 1200) to think together and intentionally create
new, shared and collective meanings &
understanding
Source:www.theworldcafe.com

22. World Café Questions
1. HOW to build the capacities of Local Authorities at the different levels; Village
en c/s, District and Province and National
2. WHAT are the best approaches to motivate people to become active citizens?
3. HOW to implement and monitor village and c/s council investment projects –
Best practice?
4. What is good about the CDP/CIP structure/ systems? is the CDP/CIP the only
way to do local inclusive development projects
5. ROLE of the c/s council to ensure Local Inclusive Development projects in the
CIP process? Are the 5 STEPS given enough possibilities?
6. HOW to support vulnerable people (included children) for meaningful
participation in local decision making?

23. World Café Discussions

24. World Café voting session
Each participant received 6 stickers to vote for the best idea per World café
questions

25. World Café outcome
HOW to build the
capacities of Local
Authorities at the
different levels; Village en
c/s, District and Province
and Nation
•
To conduct training need
assessment (TNA) before
starting training.
•
To develop training
session in accordance to
results of TNA
WHAT are the best
approaches to motivate
people to become active
citizens?
Ensuring prioritized
project is implemented in
response to inclusive
needs
HOW to implement and
monitor village and c/s
council investment
projects – Best practice?
•
Coaching and actual
practice and exposure.
•
Strengthening capacity of
PMC with people with
disabilities participation
Ensure beneficiary
participation
•
•
•
•
•
Public forum on CS
project implementation
and budget expenditure.
To be transparent,
integrity and equity
Encourage participation
and understanding
feeling;

26. World Café outcome
What is good about the
CDP/CIP structure and
systems? Is the CDP/CIP
the only way to do local
inclusive development
project
•
•
•
To meet wit all citizens,
included people with
disabilities to discuss and
collect disability issues
Ensure participation from
stakeholders, including
line department and
donors
Private sector and NGOs
can implement inclusive
project
ROLE of the C/S council to
ensure Local Inclusive
Development projects in
the CIP process? Are the
5 STEPS given enough
possibilities?
HOW to support
vulnerable people
(included children) for
meaningful participation
in local decision making?
•
Explain people about CIP
process
•
Empower and encourage
vulnerable group
•
Prioritize project based on
equity manner
•
Study real needs of the
vulnerable people
•
Follow 5 steps of CIP
process fully
•
Invite representative of
vulnerable people in CIP
process.