Common use of Implementation Modalities Clause in Contracts

Implementation Modalities. The fact that the ICP shares the objectives of the Government of Cambodia’s development strategies should transpire in the way its activities are implemented. There should be no “stand-alone” projects. All activities have to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ institutional sustainability, work through a participatory approach involving beneficiaries from the start in the project preparation, and use as much as possible existing institutional structures (strengthening them in the process). The activities in the education and health sectors in Siem Reap and Kampong Cham provinces should support the Government of Cambodia’s decentralisation and deconcentration policy by having their institutional anchor point at the provincial level (SEILA approach), while supporting at the same time the national policies in the field of education and health, by adopting the objectives of the relevant sector strategies. Moreover the projects will not necessarily cover the whole of both provinces. In that case concentrating the activities of both sectors on the same districts may enhance their performance. In the rapidly evolving context of Cambodia, such double strategic and institutional integration will require a certain degree of flexibility built-in into the co-operation activities. It also implies the willingness of the representatives of the Belgian Government and its project-implementing personnel to actively contribute to the ongoing policy preparation process and to the policy dialogue between the Government of Cambodia and the donor community, especially in the fields of education, health, and capacity and institution building at the provincial, district and commune levels.