Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011

1. Regional Forum Revisiting CSO Governance and Accountability in South East Asia in the Context of Post-HLF4 Vision:A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011

2. Group 1(Yellow)

3. Benefits and Advantages • Capacity building for the organization • promote guidance for management capacity • Promote the system and culture of accountability • Earning trust & recognition from key stakeholders • Opportunity to improve and overcome weakness

4. Benefits and Advantages • Way of express the GPP to the public about good practice • Improved coordination cooperation • Influencing relationship between CSOs and the government • Integrate CSOs in to the Common practice of NGOs in the region • Plan for organization develop

5. Key Challenges • Require too many documents • The process and standards are too complicate • It is new to many NGOs • Limited of human resources (when # of applicants grow) • How to gain government recognition • The question of Sustainability of the project itself • Lack of funds to comply with auditing required by the code

6. Key Challenges • Funding support to build up the organization capacity to comply with the code • How to gain recognition from wider donors community • Trap of tool high standards

7. Guiding Principles • More awareness raising • Share learning of good practice • Simplify tools (for instance local language) • Make the process simple & focus on key guidelines & principle

8. Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform • Sharing of lessons learnt and access to the information regionally • Advanced country support less advance countries in self regulation • Better harmonization of cross border project

9. Common Principles • Public disclosure • Accountability • Transparency • Integrity

10. Group 2(Blue)

11. Benefits and Advantages

12. Benefits and Advantages

13. Key Challenges

14. Key Challenges

15. Guiding Principles

16. Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform

17. Common Principles

18. Group 3(Green)

19. Benefits and Advantages • Greater Gain Confidence from Public • Promote better Performance among CSO • Gain better trust from Development Partners & Individual Donors • Better Recognition • Promote good enabling environment for CSO to build relationship with Government & Stakeholders • Promote good CSO performance in better Governance and Accountability • Reduce risk from Government critism • Public truth NGO Community • Culture of responsibility • Promote efficiency & effectiveness of CSO program • helps the CSOs to become relevant to the context • makes the CSOs less vulnerable to the external regulations • helps better tool for the communication with all the stakeholders

20. Key Challenges • Fully implementing policies (eg. mainstream gender) • Having government understanding and support the codes • Having Codes as a Learning process (i.e When applying ---Got to get it “right”) • Getting donors interested in code • Need for complaints handling mechanism that is confidential • Where is benefit of code to beneficiaries • Diversity or variety of organization

21. Guiding Principles • Education organization • Monitoring • Mentoring

22. Advantages of Regional CSO Accountability Platform • Open space for learning & sharing • Collective Advocacy for the region • Resource centre • Consistency principle & Standard • Monitoring (through peer review) • Capacity Building

23. Common Principles

24. Regional Forum Revisiting CSO Governance and Accountability in South East Asia in the Context of Post-HLF4 Vision:A strong and capable civil society, cooperating and responsive to Cambodia’s development challenges Host of the 2nd Global Assembly for CSO Development Effectiveness – Siem Reap 28-30 June 2011