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Phnom Penh – Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has organized a series of Sub-national Workshops on Government-Private Sector Forum (G-PSF) for Better Business Environment in the provinces of Pursat, Battambang, Banteaymeanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Prey Veng on 22, 24, 27, 30 October and 03 November 2014, respectively.
These sub-national workshops were organized in cooperation with Chambers of Commerce in each province with three main purposes:
- Informing and disseminating knowledge about the structure, functioning and advantages of the G-PSF for the cooperation and consultative process between government and private sector.
- Raising awareness and encouraging more active participation from private sector in the provinces in the national level G-PSF mechanism to improve the quality of the dialogues.
- Understanding the willingness and purpose of the government officials and businesspeople in the creation of a similar mechanism at sub-national level to strengthen cooperation and serve as regular public-private dialogue mechanism in addressing challenges of the private sector as well as improve quality of public services provision.
Representatives from public and private sector attending the workshops unanimously expressed the desire to have the public-private dialogue mechanism at the provincial level.
It was the second phase in which such sub-national workshops were organized with support from Trade Development Support Program of Ministry of Commerce. In the first phase, during May and June 2014, 4 workshops were organized in Kompot, Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong and Kampong Cham province.
About the Government-Private Sector Forum: G-PSF was established in 1999 by the initiative of Samdech Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia to provide a meaningful dialogue mechanism for consultation between government and private sector. The G-PSF provides an efficient platform for the business community to raise issues concerning their business activities with the government and get them resolved. CCC provides overall coordination and support to the G-PSF.