Welcome to Solution Exchange for the Decentralization & Deconcentration (D&D) Community of Practice in Cambodia

The Decentralization and Deconcentration (D&D) Community in Cambodia brings together professionals working under projects and initiatives supported by UNDP,  UNICEF, UNCDF and UNFPA: the Project to Support Democratic Development through Decentralization and Deconcentration (PSDD), the Democratic and Decentralized Local Governance project (DDLG), the Innovation in Decentralization and Local Development project (IDLD ) and the Community Mobilization to Promote Social Sector work ( CMPS).

It provides these professionals an opportunity for experience-sharing, learning and problem-solving aimed at helping the staff of these three projects to carry out their roles and responsibilities more effectively. After  a pilot period the possibility of opening the Community up to additional parties will be assessed.

Community Facilitation Team

Advisors: Mauri Starkman & Maris Mickelsons
Young Professional Officer: Sereyvicheth Chunly

Contact Details:
D&D Community in Cambodia
UNDP, #53, Pasteur Street, Boeung Keng Kang, Phnom Penh
Telephone number: 855-23-216-167 ext 228 / 700
E-mail: se-dd-kh at solex-un.net

*This is a closed Community for UNDP, UNICEF, UNCDF & UNFPA project staff. Sign up is restricted to project staff who may contact the Community Facilitation Team to join the Community

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How it works:

• Each person in the Community of Practice is subscribed to a mail group that is moderated by a facilitation team, located in UNDP’s office in Phnom Penh.  When a member of the Community comes across an issue he or she would like to learn more about, he/she can send a question to the Community Facilitation Team.
• The facilitator then posts the question to the Community network.  Other members of the Community will respond to the question with advice, experience, data or knowledge, within a fixed timeframe. At the end of the response period the answers will be synthesized into a Consolidated Reply by the facilitator, and circulated to the network. The reply may also include additional resources and recommended materials such as relevant websites and further readings.  

Key Benefits:

The Decentralization and Deconcentration Community will give project staff working in the area of D&D an opportunity to:

• Connect to people with similar work responsibilities
• Allow for experience sharing, learning and problem solving between regions and projects
• Serve as a platform to discuss issues, share information and gather solutions to existing or anticipated work related challenges
• Help support successful D&D reform and the achievement of the Cambodian Millennium Development Goals (CMDGs)

Issues covered:

The D&D Community will cover issues related to the roles and responsibilities of PSDD, DDLG and IDLD staff, including:

• Advice on substantive issues in work related areas such as planning, finance, organizational development, policy, delivery of investments, management, local administration, capacity development, inter-commune cooperation, promotion of the League of Commune/Sangkats, agricultural development and other technical issues in each of the project’s work areas
• Sharing innovations or lessons learned based on experience;
• Identifying areas for which further work is required “knowledge gaps,” process improvements and critical issues that could benefit from a sharing experience using solution exchange
• Collaboration and discussions on specific assignments tasked by project management or government counterparts
• Follow-up on issues generated at periodic review meetings

Who should become a member?

•  Any project staff working at the national and provincial level under the PSDD, DDLG and IDLD projects
•  Project advisers providing support or guidance to the staff of these projects