National Strategic Development Plan 2006-2010.

The Royal Government's long term vision is to achieve a socially cohesive, educationally advanced, and culturally vibrant Cambodia without poverty, illiteracy and ill health where all Cambodians live in harmony free of hunger, inequity, exclusion, and vulnerability, and where all citizens are able to reach their full potential in their chosen vocations to contribute to further progress of the country and for an increasingly higher standard of living. The Rectangular Strategy clearly specifies the immediate agenda as follows: (1) promotion of economic growth; (2) generation of employment for all Cambodian workers; (3) implementation of needed reforms to ensure equity and social justice; and (4) enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of reform programmes in all sectors towards reduction in poverty and achievement of sustainable development. In this context, the present Plan is about the immediate, medium-term future steps and targets to move rapidly towards the long-term vision of Cambodia.
In particular, chapter IV presents major strategies and actions to implement programmes and efforts to reach the afore-mentioned goals. The most important goal is poverty reduction. Given that 90 per cent of the poor live in rural areas, special attention and targeted inputs and investments are needed in rural areas. Such special attention will include more and better health care, educational facilities, improved incomes through rural activities (farm and non-farm), improved rural infrastructure.
In order to achieve the goals a steady and robust macro-economic growth, fiscal discipline, and vibrant financial sectors are vital to pursue progress. In the Agriculture Sector, the focus is on intensifying crop production to increase yields and rural incomes, diversification of crops, improving fisheries management, sustainable management of forestry through reforms, environment conservation and carrying out of land reforms, particularly to ensure land tenure to the poor. Special attention shall also be given to land reforms, food security and nutrition, livestock, forestry reform, environment and conservation, water resources, rural development, capacity building, education, health, energy.
Among the many key strategies and actions are as follows: 1) Prepare a comprehensive Strategy for the Agriculture sector; 2) Increase public sector investments in the sector; 3) Enhance affordable micro-finance availability; 3) Encourage and facilitate private sector involvement in agriculture and agro-processing; 4) Improve food security and nutrition; 5) Facilitate increase in yields through expanding extension services; 6) Try out innovative grass-roots oriented direct interventions to reduce poverty; 7) Ensure sustainable access to the poor in the fisheries sector; 8) Strengthen and enlarge animal production; 9) Better manage the protected areas; 10) Conserve forests through sustainable management practices; 11) Formulate and implement a comprehensive land policy; 12) Implement a programme of land allocation to poor farmers; 13) Continue removal of land mines. Also prospects of exploitation of offshore oil and gas resources are becoming bright. RGC will undertake special studies and put in place necessary infrastructure to optimise use of these valuable resources and revenues to flow from them.
Gender equity issues permeate all activities, and are being addressed in all sectors, particularly in agriculture, health, education. The National Council for Women would continue to address the myriad aspects of gender mainstreaming in all aspects of governance and society.
The text consists of 7chapters as follows: Introduction (I); Progress so far and current situation (II); Priority goals and targets (III); Key strategies and actions (IV); Costs, resources and programming (V); Monitoring and evaluation (VI); Conclusion (VII).