ANALYZING CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE AND POLICY IN CAMBODIA

The World Bank’s Governance Global Practice supports client countries by helping them build capable, efficient, transparent, inclusive, and accountable institutions with the aim of eradicating extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Cambodia is both a client country and a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that requires signatory countries to develop a plan outlining their climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. The World Bank enlisted a Capstone team to apply its Climate Change Institutional Assessment diagnostic framework to assess Cambodia’s center-of-government agencies responsible for policy, planning, and finance, and inter-ministerial climate change bodies. The team conducted a literature review and interviewed key stakeholders in Phnom Penh across government, civil society, and multilateral organizations. The team produced a final report detailing current climate policy instruments and recommendations for more effective institutions, which will inform the World Bank’s Country Climate and Development Report.