Day 1 Summary

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Day 1 Summary

• National Workshop on CSOs, Evidence and Policy
  Influence
• Presented by Dr. Sin Somuny, Executive Director,
  MEDiCAM

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Morning of Day I

• Opening Remarks by H.E. Dr. Mam Bun Heng,
  Secretary of State, MoH
• Good cooperation between CSOs, and the
  government, example on HIV/AIDS response
• Take advantage of ODIlearning more

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ODI Presentation

• ODI is the leading development think tank
• ODI Focus on research, and policy influence
• CSOs and Policy Processes (complexity) problem,
  research, analyze, best option, create policy,
  implement policy, evaluate result ( in reality is
  a chaos)

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ODI Presentation

• RAPID four interlink factors
• Political Context (structure, culture,
  environment)
• Evidence ( relevant, credibility, advocacy, and
  communication)
• External Factor (donor policies)
• Links

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ODI Presentation on CSPP

• Definition of CSOs Between households, private
  sector and the state to negotiate matters of
  public concerns.
• Aim of CSPP Strengthen the roles of CSOs in
  developing world through CD, Global collaboration
• Ethical Principles for Partnership Share
  vision/outputs, mutual benefits, transparency
• Suggestion for CSPP capacity development,
  research, policy analysis, advocacy,
  institutional development, funding,...

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CDRI Presentation of Case Study

• Poverty
• Participatory Poverty Assessment
• For successes on policy influence, Dr. Brett
  Ballard suggested
• Informal process
• Donor influence
• Credibility v.s. Contents
• Ownership, bottom up, and not top down

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Questions and Comments

• Ownership
• External influence, roles of donors
• Roles of CSOs
• Definition of CSOs
• Focusing only on PD, what about policy outcomes?
• Local perspective, and ownership
• Good evidence, link with donors and government
  policy makers

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MEDiCAM Case Study

• What is Medicam and its mandates?
• Political context Link to CG and 18 TWGs
• Medicam position paper in collaboration with NGO
  Forum and CCC
• NGOs WGs on RH and CS
• Challenges quality information, joint force,
  speaking one voice, taking risk, small money,
  less voice
• Lessons Participation in the 18 TWGs, more
  constructive and feasible recommendations to the
  problem, reaching donors and government before
  the events.

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Questions/Comments

• Monitoring on CG Benchmark
• Establishment of informal TWG
• Feasible recommendation on position paper
• How Medicam network at national and provincial
  levels?
• Guidelines on male involvement

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Successes, Constraints, Opportunities

• Successes factors
• Consumer rights empowement
• Identify influential informal/formal
  networkworking inside and outside the government
• Both confrontational and constructive
• Improve access to information to the public

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Successes, Constraints, Opportunities

• 5. Empowerment the community (esp. local
  authority like commune council) to participate
  into policy making process
• 6.Linkage to Trade Union/Private Sector
• 7.The more critical mass (joint force), the safer
  it is
• 8. CSOs need clear vision
• 9. Capacity Building for both CSOs and Gov.
• 10.CSOs campaign

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Constraints

• Huge diversity/differences among CSOs/NGOs
• Inadequate capacity and infrastructure
• Lack of funding
• Limited collaboration from Gov.
• Gov. does not accept some of our reports
• Short notice