Ministry of Rural Development Receives the Report on Policy and Strategy from KOICA (English Version)

My sincere thanks to Mr. YIN Leangkong, Rasmei Kampuchea Daily Newspaper Reporter  for writing an article and publishing the article in his newspaper on Sunday-Monday, October 18-19, 2009.

2nd from Right, H.E. Chea Sophara, 4th from Right, Mr. KIM Byung-gwan, 5th from Right, H.E. YIM Chhayly and 6th from Right H.E. Lee Kyung-soo,. Picture by HORT Sroeu (Mr.)

Ministry of Rural Development Receives the Report on Policy and Strategy from KOICA

By Mr. YIN Leangkong,

Rasmei Kampuchea Daily Newspaper

Sunday-Monday, October 18-19, 2009.

Phnom Penh: The Ministry of Rural Development, on the half of this week, received the Report on Policy and Strategy from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to Cambodia.

At that time, H.E. Chea Sophara, Minister of the Ministry of Rural Development said that Ministry of Rural Development was established in September 1993, with the purpose of improving living standards and alleviating the poverty of rural people through rehabilitation and rural infrastructure development, community development, rural water supply, rural healthcare and sanitation, rural economic development, training and research, capacity improvement, rural development infrastructure preparation.

H.E. Chea Sophara went on to say that, in this important mission, Ministry of Rural Development has been prepared strategic plan in order to implement the alternative rural development program at the village, commune, district, province, city in the nationwide. The implementing of the poverty reduction strategy in Cambodia will be achieved the Millennium Development Goal of Cambodia by 2015.

Deputy Prime Minister YIM Chhayly informed that the government considers the “Final Report on the Policy and Strategy of Rural Development for Cambodia” was the optimum document for the Ministry of Rural Development in order to find out the development issues in search of ideas and policy directions in the field of rural development to reduce the poverty.

H.E. Lee Kyung-soo, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Cambodia, said his country is one of the poorest countries in the world in 1960s and the agriculture sector was the main industry of the nation. Along with starting a new economic development plan and along with the leadership of the government, Korean people have made great efforts towards economic and rural development, and have achieved great successes.

Korean ambassador added that at the present, Republic of Korea is the 11th largest economy in the world and ranks 12th in terms of world trade. Now that Korea has become a front runner among developing countries, we take it as responsibility, as well as a great privilege, to join the international drive to support other developing nations and share the valuable lessons learned through our development experience, especially in the field of rural development with partner countries.