Cambodia - Green Growth Policy Alignment and Investment Prioritization

The current phase of Cambodia’s Rectangular Strategy and National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) and will end in 2018. Achieving Cambodia’s international commitments – articulated through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), as well as green growth aspirations – reflected in the National Green Growth Policy (2013) and National Green Growth Strategic Plan (2013-2030) – will necessitate integrated and coherent policy planning and implementation. The design of the Cambodia’s overarching planning document – which will be released in 2019 – thus provides a window of opportunity to align and prioritize policy priorities to fast-track the achievement of development and green growth objectives. Critical success factors in this program include: Green growth interventions need to be built into sectoral plans and budgets as the NSDP is formulated based on sectoral mandates and priorities. the incorporation of green growth in the Rectangular Strategy, NSDP and relevant sector plans is based on robust technical analysis; and The implementation of these targets is aided by institutionalized and systematic monitoring and investment prioritization