A Study on the Improvement of Efficiency of ODA through Cooperative in Cambodia

Korea is a member of OECD's Development Assistance Committee in which its aid programmed was verified in 2009. In 2010, Korea began to enact the Framework Act on International Development Cooperation. Nonetheless, criticism has been underestimated while the effectiveness of international aid is still poor. The reasons are as follows: lack of supporting experiences, lack of expertise as well as the understanding on international society environment. Cambodia is one of the countries where ODA project is implementing. The purpose of this study focused on improving the effectiveness of the ODA aid model, and the scopes of the study related to the infrastructure improvement and income enhancement through the improving of agricultural productivity. The results are presented as follows. First, due to the lack of experience and understanding of local environment in the early aid, most international aids have generally failed. Second, the joint participation of the beneficiary and donor countries has resulted in improving agricultural productivity and income. Finally, in the case of aid through cooperatives, voluntary participation rate and productivity improvement were high.