Programme to Enhance Capacity for Social Accountability (PECSA) in Cambodia

 

The World Bank initiated the Programme to Enhance Capacity for Social Accountability (PECSA) which aimed to strengthen Cambodian civil society organisations to use social accountability approaches and tools and to promote networking among social accountability practitioners nationally and internationally. The programme was designed to enhance and strengthen the practice of social accountability in preparation for the Demand for Good Governance Project (DFGG) of the Royal Government of Cambodia supported by the World Bank. PRIA was one of the international capacity building institutions which undertook the components of training, mentoring and awareness building.

+Objectives

The main objective of the project was to bring leading practices, particularly in the context of local governance, and practitioners of social accountability and their experience to Cambodian civil society organisations.

+Geographical spread

Cambodia

+Key areas/components

  • Providing training on international practices on social accountability approaches, tools and techniques for civil society organisations and officials of local governance institutions

  • Providing onsite and online mentoring and coaching to selected participants who successfully completed the training programmes

  • Facilitating exposure visits on social accountability practices to India

  • Providing input to the strategic planning for scaling up social accountability practices in Cambodia

+Key outputs

  • Prepared more than 500 pages of learning materials on the concepts and practices on social accountability, strengthening local governance institutions, promoting citizen and civil society participation, building civil society coalitions, media communication, etc

  • A total of three Social Accountability Schools (SASs), each of two weeks’ duration, were facilitated

  • A total of 188 participants from 80 civil society organisations participated in these three SASs

  • A total of 20 participants participated in two exposure visits to India

  • Five civil society organisations were provided onsite mentoring and coaching on budget transparency related to social accountability practices

  • One training for district and provincial governors, deputy governors and administrative heads was organised in which approximately 70 officials participated

Year/period

March 2008 to June 2010

Client

The World Bank