RURAL INVESTMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE PROJECT

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The development objective of the Rural Investment and Local Governance Project for Cambodia is to contribute to rural development and poverty reduction through supporting provision of priority public goods and services at the commune level, as well as to promote good local governance through support of decentralized and deconcentrated participatory local governance systems at the commune and provincial levels. The Project will support, through Phase II of the National Seila Program, the newly decentralized planning process at the commune level, as well as the provision of grants for priority rural infrastructure and related public goods identified through that planning process. More specifically, the Project supports: (i) integration of the National Seila Program into the new local government institutional structures and development planning, budgeting and implementation processes at the commune level established as part of the recent decentralization reforms; and (ii) technical assistance for strategic studies to inform the ongoing dialogue on deconcentration reforms, as well as to review and strengthen the regulatory framework for decentralization. The Project provides support, over a four-year period (2003-2006), to the following two components: Local Planning and Investment; and Policy Support and Project Management.