Cambodia Trade Facilitation and Competitiveness (Julian Clark co-TTL)

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The Cambodia Trade Facilitation and Competitiveness Project aims to support the Recipient's strategy to promote economic growth by reducing transaction costs associated with trade and investment, introducing transparency in investment processes, and facilitating access of enterprises to export markets. The project consists of the following four components: Component 1) the application of appropriate IT to border management activities can significantly streamline operations, improve the level of transparency and accountability and facilitate the achievement of all border related government objectives. Component 2) will finance (a) technical support to the Ministry of Commerce's Department of Export Promotion to establish the exporter technical assistance window, and (b) a technical assistance matching grant facility that would cover 50 percent of the cost of achieving market standards, or evidence of compliance with those standards. Component 3) the Private Participation in Infrastructure and Investment Component will finance a program of capacity building to implement the Law on Concessions and the Amended Law on Investment. Component 4) will finance (a) the establishment and maintenance of a website in the Khmer language to make readily available to the public the final judgments of all cases in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Appeal; (b) the establishment and maintenance of a website to ensure the electronic publication of all Cambodian laws, related regulations and draft legislation in the commercial law field, broadly defined; and (c) training to utilize the established systems.