19Country Assistance Evaluation of CambodiaInviting young politics-oriented Cambodians (Courtesy call on Foreign Minister Kono, December 3, 2018) Recommendations It was recommended that Japan should continue support for “high quality infrastructure” and simplify and speedup the decision-making and administrative procedures, taking into account a relatively declining Japan’s assistance scale. To secure aid quality and quantity, the Government of Japan should cooperate with the private sector and donor agencies. Agencies such as the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the Asian Development Bank are good partners to cooperate as they are capable of making substantial financial contributions. Japan should provide more opportunities for Cambodians to study in Japan in order to establish tighter bilateral relationship. Enhancement and expansion of ODA are expected for human resource development in various fields such as education and water supply. Japan should provide support to improve governance proactively, which is capable of distinguishing Japan’s aid from other donors such as China. Further, Japan should expand cooperation through participation of broader strata of citizens such as NGOs, judicial officials. Implementation status of response measures To promote Japan’s high quality infrastructure, Japan announced cooperation, at the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting in October 2018, on the irrigation rehabilitation for agriculture as well as on the construction of electric data interchange system for port control. Japan is making efforts to simplify and speedup the decision-making and administrative procedures through intimately sharing information with the Government of Cambodia. The Embassy of Japan and members of the Japanese Business Association have jointly held and will continue to hold public-private committee meetings a couple of times a year to make proposals for improving the investment environment directly to Cambodian relevant ministries. In February 2019, Memorandum was signed between the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan and the Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction of Cambodia on the establishment of Cambodia-Japan Platform on the development of infrastructure and urbanization, followed by the first meeting with many Japanese companies attended. Upon a request from the Government of Cambodia, the Exchange of Notes was signed in May 2018 on the Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship, which is designed to support young Cambodian government officials to study in Japan. Moreover, young Cambodians who are in the field of politics, judicial and election were invited as part of Japan’s assistance for governance.West Tonle Sap Irrigation Rehabilitation Project:Main canal in Lum Hach area (before improvement)Photo provided by JICA
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