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4th Banking and Finance Cambodia Conference

21/02/2012

The 4th Banking and Finance Cambodia Conference took place in Phnom Penh on 9-10th February 2012.

With featuring theme “Growth and Challenges of the Banking and Microfinance industries: opportunities for emerging markets”, the event covered various topics and combined historical approaches with prospective reflections on Cambodia’s financial sector. Diverse insights were provided by experts from national banks, international and local commercial banks, microfinance institutions and financial institutions and corporations.

On that occasion, the Director of AFD’s Phnom Penh office, Mr André Pouilles-Duplaix, made a presentation on “AFD’s past interventions to support the microfinance sector in Cambodia” and returned to the main challenges faced by the Cambodia’s microfinance sector today: the clients’ protection.

L'AFD propose des formations professionnelles

02/02/2012

Le CEFEB (Centre d'Études Financières Économiques et Bancaires) propose des formations professionnelles de haut niveau aux cadres des pays partenaires de l'AFD.

► Collectivités locales :

 

► Master Maitrise d’ouvrage publique et privée :

AFD supports Cambodia’s rice value-chain

09/01/2012

The French Development Agency (AFD) is granting a 3,5 M EUR grant to the Royal Government of Cambodia in order to finance the implementation of a project supporting the development and strengthening of Cambodia’s rice value-chain.

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.

Developing the access to drinking water in Cambodia’s rural areas: AFD’s financial support to the NGO 1001 Fontaines’s project “Cambodia Phase 3”

28/12/2011

The French Development Agency (AFD) has recently renewed its support to the French NGO 1,001 Fontaines’s programme aiming at improving access to drinking water in Cambodia. This additional support will consist in providing the NGO with a EUR 300,000 grant in order to finance the third phase of their programme: the “Cambodia Phase 3” project.

1,001 Fontaines aims at improving the health of the rural populations by facilitating their access to drinking water via the development of drinking water production sites in the villages from the countryside. In order to ensure the durability of the provided services, the sites are set up as operating companies, which supply the water in 3,4 gallon (20L) round water bottles ensuring the good-quality of  the product. Between 2005 and 2011, 58 production sites were created in the North-West region of Cambodia, along with a technical support platform financed by the producers.

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.

Cancer and Palliative Care: Pilot Project on Continuous, Comprehensive and Integrated Care towards the establishment of a National Cancer Center in Cambodia

28/12/2011

The France has decided to support the project submitted by the French NGO “Douleurs Sans Frontières”  to develop a “pilot project providing comprehensive, continuing and integrated care of cancer patients and patients suffering from other chronic diseases” within three years. The total amount of the project is 1 623 734 euros, including the financial contribution of 559 594 euros fro the French Development Agency.

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.

 

L’exposition « Objectifs pour le développement » fait étape au Cambodge

06/12/2011

En cette fin d’année 2011, l’opération photos d’Objectif Développement poursuit son tour du monde en faisant halte en Asie du Sud-Est.

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.

 
 
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