Vision: A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges

Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011

Regional Forum Revisiting CSO Governance and Accountability

in South East Asia in the Context of Post-HLF4

Group 1(Yellow)

Benefits and Advantages

•Capacity building for the organization•promote guidance for management capacity•Promote the system and culture of accountability•Earning trust & recognition from key stakeholders•Opportunity to improve and overcome weakness

Benefits and Advantages

Way of express the GPP to the public about good practice

Improved coordination cooperation

Influencing relationship between CSOs and the government

Integrate CSOs in to the Common practice of NGOs in the region

Plan for organization develop

Key Challenges•Require too many documents •The process and standards are too complicate•It is new to many NGOs •Limited of human resources (when # of applicants grow)•How to gain government recognition•The question of Sustainability of the project itself•Lack of funds to comply with auditing required by the code

Key Challenges

•Funding support to build up the organization capacity to comply with the code•How to gain recognition from wider donors community •Trap of tool high standards

Guiding Principles

•More awareness raising •Share learning of good practice•Simplify tools (for instance local language) Make the process simple & focus on key guidelines & principle

Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform

•Sharing of lessons learnt and access to the information regionally•Advanced country support less advance countries in self regulation•Better harmonization of cross border project

Common Principles

•Public disclosure •Accountability •Transparency•Integrity

Group 2(Blue)

Benefits and AdvantagesFor all, CSOs and government-Public good-Ready reference of CSOs-Quality assurance, risk management-Identifying credible partners in development-Determining eligibility for tax credits-Promotion of government agenda: good governance, transparency, accountability

Benefits and Advantages-Indirect capacity building-Tax benefit-promotion through: gateway to giving PCP website, philanthropy portal-proof to donors-like a degree to approach donors and sell by themselves-COS more effective in grant making seeking-cooperation with board, management, and beneficiary

Key Challenges Challenges Solution

Financial Sustainability Income generation activities i.e. national and international fund raising events, income generating projects, etc.

Credibility & Trust Deficit Third party evaluation

Capacity Indirect training and development

Diversifying resource base More professionalised grant-seeking

Key Challenges

Guiding Principles

Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform

-regional codes of conduct

-certification of certifiers at regional level

-Ensure credibility of country level certification agencies.

-creating a ‘body of knowledge’

Common Principles

Group 3(Green)

Benefits and Advantages• Greater Gain Confidence from Public• Promote better Performance among CSO• Gain better trust from Development Partners & Individual Donors• Better Recognition• Promote good enabling environment for CSO to build relationship with Government & Stakeholders• Promote good CSO performance in better Governance and Accountability• Reduce risk from Government critism• Public truth NGO Community• Culture of responsibility• Promote efficiency & effectiveness of CSO program• helps the CSOs to become relevant to the context• makes the CSOs less vulnerable to the external regulations• helps better tool for the communication with all the stakeholders

Key Challenges• Fully implementing policies (eg. mainstream gender)

• Having government understanding and support the codes

• Having Codes as a Learning process (i.e When applying ---Got to get it “right”)

• Getting donors interested in code

• Need for complaints handling mechanism that is confidential

• Where is benefit of code to beneficiaries

• Diversity or variety of organization

Guiding Principles• Education organization

• Monitoring

• Mentoring

Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform

• Open space for learning & sharing

• Collective Advocacy for the region

• Resource centre

• Consistency principle & Standard

• Monitoring (through peer review)

• Capacity Building

Common Principles

Vision: A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges

Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011

Regional Forum Revisiting CSO Governance and Accountability

in South East Asia in the Context of Post-HLF4