[{"bbox": [83, 127, 815, 154], "category": "List-item", "text": "strategies, promotion of transparency and public participation in policy-making;"}, {"bbox": [83, 162, 937, 189], "category": "List-item", "text": "b) Demonstrated capacity to manage a large development cooperation agreement effectively;"}, {"bbox": [83, 197, 1145, 252], "category": "List-item", "text": "c) Specific mandate to focus its support on human rights, rule of law and democracy and to work through Civil Society Organisations (CSOs);"}, {"bbox": [83, 260, 583, 287], "category": "List-item", "text": "d) Strategic relevance for EU multilateral engagement."}, {"bbox": [83, 331, 616, 357], "category": "Text", "text": "Sida fulfils the selection criteria for the following reasons:"}, {"bbox": [120, 365, 1145, 479], "category": "List-item", "text": "a) Sida has proved ability to support Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) engaging in good governance, anti-corruption strategies, promotion of transparency and public participation in policy-making. Such ability has been proven by the successive implementations of two related programmes (Partnership for Accountability and Transparency – Phase I & II (ACA 2016/376-318 and ACA 2019/411-356));"}, {"bbox": [120, 486, 1145, 571], "category": "List-item", "text": "b) Sida demonstrated capacity to implement a large development cooperation agreement effectively through 2 consecutive delegated cooperation agreements managed by the EU: Partnership for Accountability and Transparency, phase I and II (ACA/2015/037-958; ACA/2018/040-874);"}, {"bbox": [120, 579, 1145, 634], "category": "List-item", "text": "c) Sida has a specific mandate, as of 2022, to focus its support on human rights, rule of law and democracy and to work through Civil Society Organisations (CSOs);"}, {"bbox": [120, 642, 1145, 756], "category": "List-item", "text": "d) Working with Sida has a Strategic relevance for EU multilateral engagement as it allows the continuation of a partnership on building accountability and transparency systems in Cambodia effectively in place since 2016. Sweden will be a partner of the Team Europe Initiative (TEI-2) \"*Build back better – green energy and industrial value chains*\", which this action will also support."}, {"bbox": [83, 767, 1145, 821], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be justified."}, {"bbox": [83, 833, 1145, 886], "category": "Text", "text": "If negotiations with the above-mentioned entity fail, this part of the action may be implemented in direct management in accordance with the implementation modalities identified in section 4.4.6."}, {"bbox": [72, 909, 702, 937], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.5 Indirect Management with an international organisation"}, {"bbox": [83, 974, 1145, 1079], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with the World Bank. This implementation entails capacity development for Public Financial Management and Service Delivery to: inform the government's PFM/public sector reform approach/strategy related to selected PFM functions and to support capacity building instrumental to achieve all four objectives listed in section 3.1."}, {"bbox": [83, 1105, 698, 1132], "category": "Text", "text": "The envisaged entity has been selected using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [120, 1133, 643, 1159], "category": "List-item", "text": "a) Experience on the field of PFM and service delivery;"}, {"bbox": [120, 1160, 1145, 1210], "category": "List-item", "text": "b) Operational capacity on the ground (in Cambodia) and expertise available in PFM and in reform areas related to PFM like Public Administration Reform (PAR);"}, {"bbox": [120, 1212, 863, 1239], "category": "List-item", "text": "c) Ability to support partnership for reforms through a multilateral engagement;"}, {"bbox": [120, 1238, 743, 1265], "category": "List-item", "text": "d) Visibility of reforms and of EU involvement in their promotion."}, {"bbox": [83, 1292, 519, 1316], "category": "Text", "text": "The WB fulfils the selection criteria as follows:"}, {"bbox": [120, 1318, 1145, 1424], "category": "List-item", "text": "a) The WB has long experience in supporting the PFMRP in Cambodia through a Multi Donor Trust Fund. The World Bank and co-financing Development Partners (DFAT, Sida) have successful experience with the first two Multi-Donor Trust Funds (MDTF) on PFM, which contributed to substantial improvement of national systems, and led donors to provide direct budget support to the government;"}, {"bbox": [120, 1425, 1145, 1581], "category": "List-item", "text": "b) The World Bank also has a unique capacity of supporting an integrated approach to reforms, supporting the linkages between public finance management reform, public administration reform and related reforms in the broader area of service delivery. This capacity has been proved by a successful implementation of a Multi Donor Trust Fund which has applied a holistic approach to the reforms conducive of an improved PFM and Service Delivery and has systematically connected PFM with other relevant reform processes in Cambodia (ACA/2019/407-648);"}, {"bbox": [120, 1582, 1145, 1637], "category": "List-item", "text": "c) The World Bank is an important policy and strategic interlocutor for the implementation of PFM reforms with the Government in Cambodia and a strategic partner for the EU. The WB has the ability to manage"}, {"bbox": [1041, 1662, 1156, 1685], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 27 of 31"}]