Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Fewer NGOs Register in 2009


Tuesday, 05 January 2010 02:48 DAP-NEWS

(CAAI News Media)

The Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and local associations regisiering in 2009 was, at 212, a decrease of 44 compared with 2008, a Ministry of Interior official reported on Monday.

Director of the Department of Political Affairs Dy Sophan told DAP News Cambodia that all the NGOs and local associations “focus on rural development in their strategies as the similarly to the step of the Cambodian government.”

He added that, after the national elections in 1993 overseen by UNTAC, the number of NGOs increased, but at the end of 2009, a report said that were about 2,465 official NGOs, and about 1034 local associations.

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