NGOs Discuss Reforms Ahead of Donor Meeting
At a meeting in Phnom enh to prepare for today’s high-level donor Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC) forum, dozens of mostly local NGOs agreed on their own list of broad reform suggestions for the government. But land disputes took center stage. Today’s GDCC meeting, which the government usually hosts every six months, has not been held since April 2011. … Among their many other recommendations, the NGOs also called on the government to pass an access to information law, provide more-and more detailed-budget reports, break down its earnings from oil ad has deals, give all political parties equal media access, and allow local communities more time to consider the impact of development projects affecting them before they are implemented. …
