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TABLEOFCONTENTS

Introduction to KOICA

KOICA inCambodia

PrioritySectors

Performance ofAssistance

Appendix:

-KOICA’sODA: 2004-2008

-Procedure of KOICA’s Program

-Distribution ofCurrent KOVs

KOREA INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY

The Korea International Cooperation Agency was founded in April 1991 under the

wing of Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Korea. Ever since, the Agency better

known by the acronym KOICA, has been at the forefront of Korea’s international

development effort.

Our aim is to facilitate socio-economic development of our partner countries and

promote friendly and cooperative relations between the Republic of Korea and

developing countries around the world.

During the course of socio-economic development since the KoreanWar, Korea has

learned a lot of painful but useful lessons. Now we are sharing these lessons with our

developing country partners because we believe that they could give practical tools

and knowledge to those struggling to escape harsh conditions and achieve social

stability and economic prosperity.

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TechnicalCooperation

GrantAid

Human Resource Development (HRD) has been the one and most important factor

for socio-economic development. As a way of technical cooperation, KOICA builds

partner countries' capacity in human resource by inviting government officials,

researchers, and promising young students to Korea and teaching them how to

facilitate and promote socio-economic development. KOICA also sends

development experts and volunteers to work in a variety of areas. These Koreans

with professional skills and work experience help a great number of individuals who

want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.

Too often, and too badly, many developing countries do not have necessary

resources and infrastructure even if they want to do something about their problem

of underdevelopment. That is why KOICA places a high priority on conducting

surveys and supporting construction of essential infrastructure such as roads,

hospitals, schools as grant aids. Also as a part of our development program, KOICA

provides equipment and facilities required at vocational training centers, schools,

public health centers, and research institutes.

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Technical Cooperation

-Dispatch of KOV

-Dispatch of Expert

-Training Program

Grant Aid

-Development Study

-Development Project

-Provision of Equipment

Socio-Economic

Development

KOICA IN CAMBODIA

Brief History

In 1991, KOICA started cooperation program with equipment provision in

Cambodia. Having seen a rapidly increased development cooperation promoted

between the two countries, KOICA set up an overseas office in Phnom Penh in 2003.

Since then, it has played a leading role in bridging the people of the two countries

withODA program.

To fulfill its role as a leading emerging donor in Cambodia, KOICA has the following

strategic objectives:

ctive engagement in global efforts to address poverty and other key

development challenges as identified in the Millennium Development Goals

(MDGs)

- Support Cambodia to achieve sustainable development through balancing

economic growth with environmental stewardship

As the importance of partner countries' ownership and the cooperation with donor

countries is increasing, KOICA, with its own Country Assistance Strategy (CAS),

tries to align its work with Cambodian government's development plan and donor's

code of practice to achieve the MDGs and sustainable development by mainly

focusing on 4 priority sectors—rural development, health, education, and

infrastructure—in which Korea is the best suited with its experience of economic

development and poverty reduction.

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PolicyGoal

C ountryAssistanceStrategy

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PRIORITY SECTORs

Rural Development

With approximately 80% of Cambodia’s

population living in the devastated rural areas,

KOICA believes that rural development is

crucial to alleviate poverty and to enhance the

quality of life in Cambodia. Moreover,

agriculture can be a key to accelerate

economic development in rural areas if it

meets best suitable condition with water

supply, agricultural skills, and people’s

motivation to live a better life.

In this sector, KOICA focuses on the rehabilitation of irrigation systems, technical

cooperation in agriculture, and the transmission of new village movement (Korea's

rural development campaign) inCambodia.

Like some other countries in the region,

Cambodia’s healthcare development is very

important for economic improvement. With

limited healthcare facilities and qualified human

resources, Cambodian people, especially those

who are living in the rural areas, are facing the

threat to their health and lives. In particular,

infant mortality rate in 2008 is around 60 per

1,000 live births and the maternal mortality is 461

per 100,000 live births, which is a significantly

high rate compared to developed countries.

In health sector, KOICA has been helping strengthen Cambodia’s health

infrastructure by constructing hospitals and improving medical facilities. KOICA

has also helped Cambodia develop their health policies by training medical

professionals in Korea and dispatching Korean medical volunteers to work in

Cambodia.

Health4

Education

Infrastructure

The Cambodian Government is investing

a lot to develop qualified human

resources for the development of

Cambodia. The number of people, from

the age of 7 to 24, who completes

primary school and basic education, is

still limited, with only 30% and 15%

respectively. Most of the illiterates and

those who drop out of school are the

poor living in the rural areas where

education system and facilities are not

adequately designed and installed.

To help the Cambodian government to achieve its goal, KOICA is putting its efforts

on primary education by constructing schools and facilities, and providing

appropriate curriculums and school supplies to ensure that all children complete

primary schooling.

KOICA also helps to develop Cambodia’s vocational training in order for people to

get a job and generate incomes by establishing a skills-certification system and

dispatching skilled experts in the field.

After decades of conflict and civil war,

most of Cambodia's infrastructures

w e r e s e r i o u s l y d e s t r o y e d . F r o m

Korean’s development experience,

KOICA knows that adequate and

effective infrastructure will promote

i n v e s t m e n t a n d o t h e r e c o n o m i c

activities, and as a result economic

growth will be achieved more rapidly.

For this reason, KOICA has been

i m p l e m e n t i n g p r o g r a m s f o r t h e

improvement of transportation system,

roads, and power and energy.

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PERFORMANCE OF ASSISTANCE

To facilitate its priorities and to achieve

its goals, the Cambodia office utilizes

various types of assistance which include

project aid, feasibility study, dispatch of

volunteers, training program, dispatch of

experts, partnership with NGOs, and

disaster relief.

Since the first assistance in 1991, the total

volume of KOICA’s grant aid to Cambodia

between 1991 and 2008 was 46 million

USD. Back in the 1990s, Cambodia was

less noteworthy with relatively small size

of ODA volume. However, the trend

turned around to a rapid increase of

cooperation program since 1997, when

the two countries retied the diplomatic

relations. Between 2005 and 2008, the

volume of KOICA’s grant aid surged by

284%, which means that Cambodia has

enjoyed a great deal of development

programs with KOICA recently. In

particular, with an amount of 13.1 million

USD in 2008 for country assistance,

Cambodia is the first largest recipient of

KOICA’s annual disbursement .

Going forward, KOICA plans to expand

d e v e l o p m e n t c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h

Cambodia by scaling up its ODA to a level

commensurate with its economic

standing. In this context, KOICA’s

importance and its scale of operations

are expected to continue to grow in the

years to come.

KOICA’s ODA program in million USD

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KOICA’s Programs in Cambodia

The project aid program, which supports the construction of schools, hospitals,

roads, and other indispensable facilities, has become one of the leading programs

of KOICA.Alongside such physical aspects, KOICA also offers training and expertise

to comprehensively support capacity building of human resources. Since its

establishment, KOICA has provided 20 programs inCambodia.

Project aid and FeasibilityStudy

Siem Reap

KampongChhnang

Kampot

Kandal

KampongCham

Project in Siem Reap1. Construction of Siem Reap

Bypass Road (’05-’06/$ 1.6 million)

2. Project for Pavement of

Siem Reap Bypass Road

(’08-’09/$4.3 million)

Projects in

Kampong Cham

3. Project for Irrigation

Construction in Batheay

Region (’09-’10/$2.5 million)

4. KOICA-JICA Joint Project on the

Construction of Irrigation and Rural

Development in Kampong Cham

(’09/$0.2 million)

1. Project for Rural

Development in

Kampong Cham

(’06-’08/$1 million)

2. Project for Flood

Control in Batheay

Region (’07-’08/$2

million)

Project in Kandal1. Project for Rehabilitation of

Tamouk Reservoir in Kandal

(’02-’04/$1.4 million)

Project in Kampong

Chhnang

2. Establishment of Korea Cambodia

FriendshipHospital in Kampong

Chhnang(’07-’08/$1 million)

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1. Feasibility Study of Krang

Ponly River Development in

Kampong Chhnang

(’04-’05/$0.7 million)

Project in Kampot1. Feasibility Study for

Kampot Trapang Ropaou-

Road Reconstruction (’01-’02/$0.6 million)

Projects in Phnom Penh1. Capacity Building in the Trade in Goods and Services

(’04-’05/$0.9 million)

2. Establishment of the Modern Hospital

for Children (’05-’06/$2.4 million)

3. Capacity Building for Capital Market Development

in Cambodia (’07-’09/$1.8 million)

Projects Nationwide1-Research for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases in 6 ASEAN Countries (’02-’06/ $2.5 million )

2-Basic Study on the Installation of Geodetic Control Points Phase I (’03-’04/$1 million)

3-Basic Study on the Installation of Geodetic Control Points Phase II (’05-’06/$1.2 million)

4-Mater Plan on Nationwide Water Resource Development (’06-’08/$1.5 million)

5-Formulation of Rural Development Policy and Strategy (’07-’08/$1.8 million)

6-Creation of National Qualification Framework in Cambodia (’07-’09/$1.2 million)

7-Installation of National Geodetic Control Points in Cambodia (’07-’09/$2.5 million)

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Training program

Dispatch of KoreaOverseasVolunteers

KOICA's training program supports the

h u m a n r e s o u r c e d e v e l o p m e n t o f

Cambodia and plays a critical role in

narrowing the knowledge gap between

the two countries. This program aims to

share important technical skills and

knowledge as well as to build capacities

for sustainable development.

To meet this goal, KOICA invites

technicians, researchers, and policy

makers for training and education in

Korea, and shares Korea's development

experience and knowledge. The training

program strives to help design its own

effective development policies and use

suitable technologies. KOICA has

i n v i t e d a r o u n d 1 , 3 0 0 C a m b o d i a n

officials to Korea since 1994.

The Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOVs)

program promotes technical manpower

development and the transfer of

advanced technology through provision

of technical assistance by deploying

volunteers to live and work together with

local communities in Cambodia. KOVs

program covers up such variety of field

as technical and vocational training, rural

development, education, public health,

etc. Since 2003, there are up to 204 KOVs

d i s p a t c h e d i n P h n o m Pe n h a n d

nationwide.

Number ofTrainees8

Dispatch of Korean Expert

Partnership with NGOs

Disaster Relief

Korean experts, who work with government

officials, transfer Korean experience and

knowledge in local settings. By sharing

professional know-how through education,

seminars, and policy consultation, the effective

promotion of economic and human resource

development is realized. KOICA has dispatched 17

experts in 14 different fields since 1996, mostly

working in the central government ofCambodia.

NGOs are able to deliver assistance to local

community more directly and complement the

efforts made at the government level more

rapidly and effectively. That is why active

participation with NGOs is emphasized. KOICA

has co-funded Korean NGO’s development

program to Cambodia and completed 32 projects

since 1995. KOICA plans to start to cooperate with

local NGOs which have experience and expertise

on the development field.

Disaster Relief is a type of humanitarian

assistance that provides immediate relief to

victims of natural disasters through the supply

of emergency relief goods and the dispatch of

relief personnel. After heavy typhoon ‘Ketsana’

hit Cambodia in late 2009, KOICA supported

with emergency food and commodities worth

200,000 USD to those who had been left

injured, homeless, and short of food.

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PROSPECT IN 2010

As the Korean government pledges to increase itsODA toCambodia, theCambodia

office is eager to expand its volume of development program in 2010. In addition,

the Cambodia office, as a member of the donors’ group, will improve the quality of

aid and strengthen its partnership with other countries. The followings are annual

program planned in 2010:

1. Irrigation system construction in Batheay region: 2009-2010/2.5 USD

2. Irrigation-based rural development in Kampong Cham: 2010-2012/2.4 USD

3. Capacity building of Siem Reap Provincial Hospital: 2010-2011/3.3 USD

4. Human resource development center construction: 2010-2014/6.5 USD

5. National base map production: 2010-2011/2.5 USD

6. Siem Reap ring road construction: 2010-2012/9.2 USD

7. Solar-hybrid power energy system construction: 2010-2011/2.2 USD

1. Feasibility study of waste landfill construction in Siem Reap: 2010/0.3 USD

1. 166 government officials to be invited to participate in 40 courses

1. 85 KOVs to be working in Cambodia

1. 5 Korean experts to be dispatched

1. 6 projects with Korean NGOs to be implemented

-Climate Partnership Program

-Joint Program with other development partners

Projects (in million)

Feasibility Study (in million)

Training Program

Dispatch of Korea Overseas Volunteers Program

Dispatch of Korean Expert

NGOs

Others:

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APPENDIX

1. Korea’sODA from 2004 to 2008

2. KOICA’s Program Procedure

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Total ODA

(KOICA’s ODA: A+B)

KOICA’s ODA Ratio (%)

423.32 752.32 455.25 699.06 802.34

175.34 208.75 193.11 270.09 274.29

41.40 27.70 42.40 38.6 0 34.20

Bilateral Assistance

-Grant Aid

(KOICA’s Grant Aid: A)-EDCF

330.76 463.30 376.06 493.47 539.22

212.09 318 258.95 361.28 368.67

174.58 201.86 193.11 270.09 272.40

118.68 145.30 117.11 132.19 170.55

Multilateral Assistance

(KOICA’s Multilateral Assistance: B)

92.56 289.01 79.19 205.59 263.12

0.75 6.87 - - 1.89

ODA/GNI Ratio (%) 0.06 0.10 0.05 0.07 0.09

*This table is base on the 2009 development cooperation report

* Based on the 2009 development cooperation report, KOICA’s Multilateral Assistance in 2008 is a

core contribution for the member countries of the UNPD Executive Board (2008-2010)

(Unit: USD in million)

CAS

Formation

Demand Survey and

Policy Dialogue

Program Request

Application

Feasibility Study and

Approval

Implementation and

Monitoring

Evaluation and Feedback

Proposal from Ministries

CDC/Ministry of Economy

and Finance

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

and International Cooperation

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3. Distribution ofCurrent KOVs inCambodia (2009.12)

Prey Veng

Pursat

BanteayMeachey

Battambang

Kampong Thom

Siem Reap

Kratie

Stung Treng

KampongChhnang

Svay Rieng

TakeoKampotSiahouk Ville

Phnom Penh

Kampong Cham

Koh Kong

Pailin

Ratanakiri

52

5

4

14

6

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

4

4

5

Total Number: 67 (female: 49, male: 18) in 18 areas

Sectors of Current KOVsFields of Current KOVs

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