National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023.

This National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) 2019-2030 has been formulated for the implementation of the Rectangular Strategy for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency Phase IV, which seeks to ensures development sustainability and poverty reduction. As the roadmap for the implementation of the Rectangular Strategy, the NSDP 2019-2030 identifies the priorities, indicators and timeframe for the implementation of the Rectangular Strategy Phase IV and the mechanism for the monitoring and evaluation of the Result Framework.
The priorities set out in the NSDP 2019-2023 cover the following issues: development of key and new sources of growth; preparing for digital economy and the fourth industrial revolution; job market development; promoting small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship; arrangement and implementation of the public private partnership; promotion of agriculture sector and rural development; sustainable management of natural resource and culture; ensuring the environmental sustainability and pre-emptive response to the climate change; enhancement of public health and nutrition; improving gender equity and social protection; institutional reform and capacity building; strengthening accountability and integrity in the public administration; strengthening of private sector governance; strengthening of the quality of education, science and technology; improving the logistics system and enhancing transport, energy, and digital connectivity; etc.
In terms of promotion of agriculture sector and rural development, the strategic goal is to strengthen the role of the agriculture sector in generating jobs, ensuring food security, reducing poverty, and developing rural areas. The priority actions include: strengthen and expand food security, continuing to enhance research, strengthening the capacity of registered agricultural and animal raising cooperatives, promoting animal husbandry for commercial purposes in order to increase household profits and to encourage highly productive small, medium and large-scale animal farms that implement good quality, and safety measures, strengthening and enlarging household rubber farming, promoting diversification of agricultural products with higher added value in the crops, livestock, aquaculture, and timber farming sub-sectors as well as investment in main crops processing, establishing crop, animal and fish quarantine control stations at the main border gates, strengthening the capacity of existing fishery communities in both freshwater and marine territories such as free of illegal fishing, etc.
In the field of sustainable management of natural resource and culture, the planned priority actions include: continuing to strengthen sustainable fisheries resource management, updating the national forestry program in the context of the current reform for stable, long term forestry development, continuing to use all means to detect, investigate and combat illegal fishing activities, enhancing the research and development on forests and wildlife, zoo management and wildlife protection, improving the effectiveness of the protected area management system through strengthening the management capacity of the organization and through good governance, etc.
In terms of rural development, key priority activities include: continuing integrated village development, developing indigenous peoples' lives to move away from starvation and extreme poverty, rural sanitation, etc.
In terms of food security and nutrition, the priority actions include: diversify agricultural production–nutritious food production, improve value chain in production & processing–including fortification, improve food quality and safety (import, export & local market, increase attention to access to food, address access inequalities–leave no one behind, etc.
In terms of improving gender equity and social protection, the planned priority actions include: mainstreaming gender into programs, policies, enhancing the efficiency of the social welfare services, Providing social security fund for civil servants, etc.
As part of water sustainability and conservation, priority activities include: strengthening and encouraging the enforcement of Water Resources Management Law and other related provisions to monitor and prevent all rehabilitation and construction projects which might have adverse impact on water resources and eco-systems; Maintaining water discharge and minimum water level in river, and lake for sustainable ecological systems and waterway transport; clean water supply development, etc. In terms of sustainable development of the mekong river basin, the Cambodia National Mekong Committee (CNMC) will continue to fully cooperate with other Mekong Member Countries under the Mekong River Commission (MRC) framework to ensure the prosperous and sustainable development of the Mekong River Basin.