
Abstract/Summary
The Cambodia Development Resource Institute
(CDRI) acknowledges with thanks permission granted by the EGDI Secretariat1,
Stockholm Sweden, to extract and reprint with Khmer translation, an account of
Cambodia's experience of development dialogue with the outside world during the
last twenty-five years. This account, written by Eva Mysliwiec, founder of CDRI
and its Director from 1990-2003, was
published in “Dialogue in Pursuit of
Development”, Jan Olson and Lennart Wohlgemuth (eds), 2003; EDGI 2003-2, Stockholm:
Almqvist and Wiskell International.
In “Dialogue in Pursuit of Development”
more than twenty practitioners with long experience of working with development
cooperation in Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Mauritius, India, Tanzania,
among others, present personal reflections and ideas about the concept and
process of dialogue, capacity development, ownership and partnership. The Case
of Cambodia is only one of the many case studies represented in this book.
The Case of Cambodia is reprinted by CDRI
for local dissemination under the title of ‘Envisioning a New Paradigm of
Development Cooperation in Cambodia.’ The purpose of the reprint is to
encourage further reflection between donors and their Cambodian development
partners, and to contribute to more effective development partnership and
practice in Cambodia.