Cambodia

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• Plaquette
• Dossier de candidature

Based on the experience gained over the last 15 years in the development of irrigated perimeters, AFD is launching a new Commercial Capacity-Building Programme (PRCC) to support the rice sector. The project will aim at enhancing the involved actors’ performance and providing them with an improved access to the domestic and export markets. Contributing to the national strategy of developing Cambodia’s rice exportation, the project will especially support high value-added exports and aim at increasing the producers’ share of the related global income.

The specific objectives are to:

• Contribute to structuring the rice value-chain (operationalisation of the interministerial coordination and of the dialogue between the public and the private sectors, professional and interprofessional structuring of the value-chain) and building the capacity of the different actors (SMEs, producers, public actors involved in the sector, banks);
• Create quality indicators, which will promote the Cambodian rice on the export markets;
• Promote contractual agriculture and strengthen the producers’ associations in order for them to be better involved in the sale of paddy rice;
• Build the capacity of the Rural Development Bank (RDB) in order to meet the SMEs’ and the producers’ associations’ needs for funds.

The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the Economic and Financial Policy Committee’s technical team (Comité de Politique Economique et Financière – CEPF). The institutional base of the project will be the Supreme National Economic Council (SNEC), which hosts the CEPF secretariat.

The “Cambodia Phase 3” project comes within the framework of a large-scale deployment approach which plans the creation of two to three new support platforms, each of which being connected to about sixty water production sites located in different rural areas of the country. The first part of the “Cambodia Phase 3” project will consist in setting up a support platform and sixty “fountains” (water production sites) between 2012 and 2014.

The project “Cancer and Palliative Care” specifically aims to :

1. improve the Pain Management and Palliative Care of the indigent cancer patients of Calmette Hospital
2. implement a sustainable Home Care Service, specialized in Palliative Care, responding to the needs of indigents patients suffering from cancer or other chronic diseases in Phnom Penh City
3. improve the knowledge and competence in Pain Management, Palliative and Supportive Care of all professional groups working with cancer patients and patients with other chronic diseases, principally at Calmette Hospital and Khmer-Soviet Hospital
4. improve the Knowledge in the community on cancer and palliative care and to induct health promoting behavior changes among general people.

Au Cambodge, l’exposition a ouvert ses portes à Phnom Penh, au Centre audiovisuel Bophana, le 14 novembre, en présence de l’ambassadeur de France, M. Christian Connan. Les représentants des plus grandes institutions et les partenaires privilégiés de l’AFD dans le pays ont pu apprécier l’intervention du Directeur de l’agence régionale Cambodge-Laos, M. André Pouilles-Duplaix, à l’occasion du vernissage organisé pour le lancement de la célébration du 70ème anniversaire de l’AFD.

« L’AFD est faite d’hommes et de femmes […] qui ont une vocation. Celle de contribuer au développement d’une planète juste et prospère, équitable et durable, verte et solidaire, qui a des objectifs pour demain et ne regarde le passé que pour en tirer les leçons de manière positive et intelligente. » a-t-il rappelé.

L’événement a été l’occasion de revenir sur l’histoire de l’AFD et ses différentes missions, dans le cadre desquelles s’inscrit la stratégie d’intervention de l’AFD au Cambodge : entre autres, la promotion des avantages économiques et commerciaux des pays partenaires, le financement de mécanismes de couverture des risques maladie, ou encore le soutien de la microfinance et de ses acteurs pour un développement économique et social des populations.

L’exposition des photographies de M. John Vink, de l’agence Magnum, sur le secteur textile au Cambodge, a également permis d’évoquer quelques uns des plus grands projets financés par l’AFD depuis le début de ses activités dans le pays, en 1993 : appui aux filières de la soie, de l’agriculture périurbaine et de l’hévéaculture, création d’indications géographiques pour le poivre de Kampot et le sucre de palme de Kampong Speu, soutien au développement de l’hydraulique villageoise au niveau provincial, accompagnement de la conception et de la mise en œuvre de la politique nationale d’irrigation, restauration du Marché central et extension des services de la régie des eaux de Phnom Penh, aménagement urbain et extension du système de drainage de Siem Reap, etc.

Itinérante, l’exposition poursuivra sa tournée à Phnom Penh au cours des prochains mois. Fin décembre, elle fera étape à l’Université Royale de Droit et des Sciences Economiques (URDSE) de Phnom Penh. L’inauguration de l’exposition, qui se tiendra, cette fois-là, sous la forme d’une conférence donnée aux étudiants par le directeur de l’AFD au Cambodge, sera l’occasion d’aller à la rencontre des jeunes cambodgiens pour faire connaître le développement, l’AFD et ses activités.

Enfin, elle sera exposée, début 2012, à l’Institut français, acteur de la coopération culturelle entre la France et le Cambodge.

Cambodia, which is expected to achieve an economic growth of more than 6% in 2011, shall meet the growing demand of its population in terms of financial services. The access to the traditional banking system indeed remains very limited to most of the people in the country, especially in the rural areas where 80% of the population live.

This project, which stands as PROPARCO’s fourth operation in the microfinance sector in Cambodia, will contribute to increasing the financial inclusion of the disadvantaged communities. More generally, this financing will help HKL develop its activities towards small and medium-sized enterprises, and this way support employment and growth in Cambodia.

“We are pleased to support a strong and dynamic player such as Hattha Kaksekar Limited. The long-term financing provided by PROPARCO to the MFI will help reinforce the financial soundness of the institution. This operation reflects PROPARCO's approach to microfinance: supporting institutions which combine good financial and social performances for a responsible microfinance sector,” explains Marie-Hélène Loison.

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PROPARCO is a Development Finance Institution (DFI) jointly held by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and public and private shareholders from the North and South. Its mission is to catalyze private investment in emerging and developing countries with the aim of supporting growth, sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). PROPARCO finances investments that are economically viable, socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and financially profitable. PROPARCO is one of the main bilateral development finance institutions worldwide. It invests on four continents encompassing both the major emerging countries and the poorest countries, particularly in Africa, and presents a high level of requirements in terms of social and environmental responsibility.
www.proparco.fr

Hattha Kaksekar Limited started its activity as an NGO in 1996 and has since become one of the most dynamic microfinance institutions in Cambodia. Thanks to its highly qualified and experienced staff HKL plays a major role in the financial sector, offering basic services to individuals and businesses. In all of the projects it initiates, HKL pays a specific attention to their impact on the borrowers and their communities in terms of social and economic development and durability. Thanks to its extensive network, the MFI offers its financial services to all, even in remote and traditionally underserved rural areas. In 2010, following its acquisition of a license allowing it to take deposits, HKL launched the development of saving products. HKL intends to eventually evolve into a commercial bank so as to further extend its offer of products and services.
http://www.hkl.com.kh/