Role of local elites as broker in rural development:

In the post-war situation of Cambodia, NGOs have a historic opportunity to contribute to the rehabilitation of Cambodia by continuing concrete programming .. and influencing the overall direction of development policy in the country (Mysliwiec,1993). This was made evident in a NGO workshop organised in 1992, under the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC). In this workshop a policy paper of NGOs with regard to the "Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Cambodia" was prepared for the :Ministerial Planning Conference to be held in Tokyo, later that year (Ibid). From these meetings it was established that NGOs can not only influence development policy but directly assist at the community level as well.