Long-Delayed Donor Meeting Set for Wednesday
The government and its foreign donors are preparing for their next high-level aid meeting Wednesday, their first sine the government surprised donors in August 2011 by indefinitely suspending the meetings, citing the global financial crisis. …
However, officials at the Finance Ministry and the Council for the Development of Cambodia, which traditionally hosts the donor meetings, denied knowledge of Wednesday’s get-together.
The meeting in question is the Government-Development Partner Coordinating Committee (GDCC), which the government typically hosts every six months but has not been held since April 2011, nearly one-and-a-half years ago. …
Speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, two separate NGO workers said the government was also expected to approve an updated list of reforms, known as Joint Monitoring Indicators, at Wednesday’s meeting, something usually reserved for meetings of the CDCF [Cambodian Development Cooperation Forum].
