Senior Representatives of CSOs Meet to Promote Effective NGO Governance and Good Internal Relationships
by Khim Sambo Rothana, Communications Office
Phnom Penh (October 16-17, 2014) – Around 70 senior representatives who are board members and management staff from local and international NGOs working in Cambodia today meet and discuss at a two-day workshop on “Promoting Effective NGO Governance and Good Relationships between Boards and Executive Directors” at Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center (CKCC), Royal University of Phnom Penh.
Co-organized by a group of five NGOs including Southeast Asia Development Program (SADP), Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), Action Aid Cambodia (AAC), Cord, and Danmission, the workshop aims:
- to promote common understanding of governance among civil society organizations – this will include promoting understanding of the collective nature of governance and exploring the differences between management and governance;
- to provide opportunities for participants to reflect, feedback, and discuss the roles and responsibilities of governing boards;
- to identify and document tips or good practices for NGO governance and as well as action plans to improve NGO governance in Cambodia;
- to assist GPP applicant NGOs to prepare submissions to NGO GPP with regards to the functionality of the boards.
This is the first workshop initiated by this group of NGOs to address some serious challenges of governance for civil society organizations in Cambodia.
In his opening remark, Dr Sok Thim, Chairperson of CCC Executive Committee, said that after first election in 1993, some NGOs and associations had poor understanding and resource to absorb hug amount of money to operate in Cambodia.
"However, it becomes our experience and foundation to build up our work from this twenty years working. And now, it is time to share all our experience and capacity to young generation to have enough capacity for development." he added.
Mr Seoung Typo, Research and Learning Manager of CCC.
Mr Seoung Typo, Research and Learning Manager of CCC, said that senior members and board of directors of all CSOs would understand more on good governance and management from this important workshop. “There is also a session in which participants can reflect and share good behaviors to each others in order to improve their performance.” he added.
“CSOs are important development partners of the government and always demand the government to improve or strengthen good governance. So, CSOs themselves need to take this opportunity to reflect their own governance as well.” Mr Typo said.
Mr Graeme Brown, Coordinator and Country Representative of Southeast Asia Development Program (SADP), said that he, as a donor partner in Cambodia, was very happy to see all CSOs met and discussed on this important issue. “There is still small amount of NGOs in Cambodia that do not have good governance at their work. For example, a CEO of a NGO has a wife or relatives working as CFO or in finance unit which allow them to do corruption. This is very harmful and leads that NGO to poor governance.” he emphasized.
“It is very important to have advisory boards in a NGO to effectively perform their duties with transparency when a problem occurs. Being a donor, we require those NGOs to have good governance or check and balance system to ensure that there is no corruption or problem before we donate or support them.” Mr Graeme Brown said.
For more documents and photos of this workshop, please follow THIS LINK
For more information, please contact:
Mr Soeung Typo
Research and Learning Manager of CCC
Tel: 012 988 802
Email: typo.soeung(a)ccc-cambodia.org
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