Envisioning a New Paradigm of Development Cooperation in Cambodia

The Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) acknowledges with thanks permission granted by the EGDI Secretariat1, Stockholm Sweden, to extract and reprint with Khmer translation, an account of Cambodia's experience of development dialogue with the outside world during the last twenty-five years. This account, written by Eva Mysliwiec, founder of CDRI and its Director from 1990-2003, was published in “Dialogue in Pursuit of Development”, Jan Olson and Lennart Wohlgemuth (eds), 2003; EDGI 2003-2, Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiskell International. In “Dialogue in Pursuit of Development” more than twenty practitioners with long experience of working with development cooperation in Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Mauritius, India, Tanzania, among others, present personal reflections and ideas about the concept and process of dialogue, capacity development, ownership and partnership. The Case of Cambodia is only one of the many case studies represented in this book. The Case of Cambodia is reprinted by CDRI for local dissemination under the title of ‘Envisioning a New Paradigm of Development Cooperation in Cambodia.’ The purpose of the reprint is to encourage further reflection between donors and their Cambodian development partners, and to contribute to more effective development partnership and practice in Cambodia.