Silaka Organization

PECSA

The Program to Enhance Capacity in Social Accountability (PECSA) is implemented by the World Bank, and was endorsed by the Ministry of Interior. It responds to the Rectangular Strategy of the Royal Government of Cambodia.

Governance issues have been identified as the primary obstacle to sustainable and broad-based development and poverty reduction in Cambodia (World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy for the financial years 2005 and 2006). The World Bank's Country Assistance is intended to help the Government implement its Rectangular Strategy, which provides a sound diagnosis of Cambodia's development challenges - particularly the central importance of good governance - and a comprehensive list of actions to tackle these problems.

PECSA is a precursor of the Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) project, and was implemented to fulfill two main objectives:

To enhance civil society capacities in designing and implementing social accountability and good governance; and
To build on and scale up the existing efforts of civil society to help the government be more effective.

PECSA strives to enhance the capacity of civil society organizations through:

Providing training to civil society organizations in the use of social accountability approaches and tools;
Adapting global social accountability practices to the Cambodian context;
Providing grants to CSOs to develop and pilot social accountability practice; and
Supporting enhanced information-sharing and networking among social accountability practitioners.

What are the focus areas of PECSA?

PECSA will seek to enhance capacity for social accountability in the following priority focus areas:

Improving the effectiveness of public services;
Monitoring public spending and enhancing accountability for it;
Strengthening the management of Cambodia's natural resources;
Strengthening governance of private sector;
Strengthening media as instrument of good governance, and;
Other urgent and relevant concerns for the Cambodian practitioners of social accountability.

SILAKA is operating in component one Training and capacity building. For more information please see www.worldbank.org.kh/pecsa