Silverpheonix - Unified Cambodia and Laos (UCL)
Total Population: 21,605,358
Cambodia: 14,805,358
Laos: 6,800,000
Budget: $4.8 billion
Domestic Affairs/Economy:
Renewable Energy Development Project:
The main development objectives of the Rural Electrification and Transmission Project are to improve power sector efficiency and reliability, while reducing electricity supply costs, improve standards of living and foster economic growth in rural areas, by expanding rural electricity supplies, and, strengthen electricity institutions, the regulatory framework, and the "enabling environment" for sector commercialization and privatization. The transmission line component comprises the construction of a double circuit 220kV line from the border with Vietnam to Phnom Penh, and two associated substations; reinforcement of the grid around Phnom Penh, which involves lines and modifications to three substations and 22kV extension; establishment of a National Control Center to optimize load dispatch operations, and increase system security; and, building the Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) capacity in project management, land acquisition, resettlement and environmental monitoring and mitigation.
The rural electrification component, supports EdC's grid extension program, covering medium, and low voltage lines and electrification for rural households. The Project will support the symbiotic relationship of EdC and the rural electricity enterprises (REEs), and whenever feasible, will make use of private sector providers in the operation of rural distribution systems. EdC would identify existing REEs, and options for public-private partnership, including distribution licensing, billing and collection arrangements, management contracts, and leasing arrangements. The pilot Rural Electrification Fund (REF) component, aims at implementing an innovative mini, and off-grid electrification program, as a transparent institutional mechanism for promoting rural electrification, established by the Government with administrative, managerial, technical and financial autonomy to channel sub-grants and technical assistance (TA) to the private sector, and rural communities. The REF will assist private sector developers in providing new connections, electricity to households using solar home systems, and add as well mini-hydro, and micro hydro capacity. $350 million
Good Governance Project:
The development objective of the Demand for Good Governance Project for UCL is to enhance the demand for good governance (DFGG) in priority reform areas by strengthening institutions, supporting partnerships, and sharing lessons. The state and non-state institutions and partnerships supported will be those that promote, mediate, respond to, or monitor to inform DFGG. The four priority reform areas, where DFGG approaches will be supported are those identified in the Governance Pillar of the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), i.e., private sector development, management of natural resources, public financial management, and decentralization and citizens partnerships for better governance. The project has three components:
(i) support to state institutions;
(ii) support to non-state institutions;
(iii) coordination and learning. In component one, four state institutions will improve and scale up programs that promote, mediate, respond to, or monitor for DFGG in the priority reform areas of the CAS. In component two, non-state actors will develop their own programs in the priority reform areas. Some of these programs will be in partnership with the four state institutions supported in component one (funded through partnership grants); others will be independent of them (funded through thematic grants). The third component supports overall coordination of the project and promotes learning, awareness raising and capacity building on demand-side approaches. $100 million
Health Support Sector Project:
The Health Sector Support Project for UCL aims to
1) develop affordable quality health services with emphasis on primary health care and first referral services in rural areas;
2) increase the utilization of health services by the poor;
3) mitigate the effects of infectious disease epidemics and of malnutrition;
4) improve the health sector's capacity and performance. There are three project components. The first comprises two sub-components. The project improves accessibility and quality of health services by rehabilitating and constructing civil works, and financing equipment and maintenance. It improves service quality by funding training for the minimum and complementary package of activities. Moreover, it provides funding to help solve current problems with drug quality, utilization, and availability throughout the health services.
This component also focuses on helping poor individuals and households to afford health services. The second component benefits the poor through:
i) developing primary health care (preventative and curative) services;
ii) financing health facilities in the rural areas of the country;
iii) strengthening the infectious diseases control programs;
iv) increasing nutrition activities;
v) improving procurement and distribution of drugs. The tuberculosis, malaria, dengue and STIs/HIV/AIDS programs will receive support. The third component funds oversight of the policy, legislative, and regulatory frameworks. $1 billion
Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development:
The objective of the Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project for UCL is to improve the process for identification and use of state lands transferred to eligible, poor and formerly landless or land-poor recipients selected through a transparent and well-targeted process as indicated by:
(a) the adoption rates of improved land management and agricultural production systems in Social Land Concession (SLC) sub-projects;
(b) proportion of land recipients which meet poverty criteria and were landless or land-poor prior to project interventions;
(c) the effective implementation of dispute resolution procedures under the project, related to challenges to the land recipient selection process.
There are four components to the project. The first component concerns commune based social land concession planning and land allocation. This component will provide training, incremental operating costs, goods, and contracted technical services to commune councils to prepare plans for SLC sub-projects. The second component concerns rural development services and investments. This component will provide subproject grants for the commune councils, working with the Land Recipients (LRs), to contract civil works, goods, technical assistance and training services identified in approved SLC sub-project plans. The third component concerns sustainable and transparent program development and will provide funding for technical assistance, salary incentives, training, incremental operating costs, small civil works, and vehicles and goods. At the national level, the component will support the General Secretariat for Social Land Concessions (GSSLC) for nationwide activities of information dissemination, technical and policy backstopping for provinces and evaluation of Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED) and SLC experiences to inform additional policy and institutional development in support of SLCs and potential program expansion. Finally, the fourth component concerns project administration and will support the national committee for the management of decentralization and deconcentration reform secretariat and Provincial Rural Development Committee-Provincial Executive Committee (PRDC-ExCom) to strengthen fiduciary and administrative capacity and reporting. $1 billion
Poverty Reduction Fund
The objective of the Poverty Reduction Fund Project (PRF) for UCL is to improve the access to and the utilization of basic infrastructure and services for the project's targeted poor communities in a sustainable manner through inclusive community and local development processes. There are three components to the project.
The first component is community development grants ($100 million): this will finance the further activities: planning for community and local development, and community sub-projects;
the second component is local & community development capacity-building and learning ($100 million): this component will finance village and Kum ban level, district and provincial level, National Leading Committee on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication (NLRDPE);
the third component is project management ($100 million): this component will finance the costs of implementing PRF II activities. It would include remuneration of national, provincial and district PRF staff; associated equipment and operating costs; accounting, procurement, financial management, internal controls, auditing, and other specialized areas. $300 million
Road Secotr Development
The objectives of the Road Sector Project in UCL are:
(a) to improve road services on two main national corridors and the provincial road network;
(b) to rehabilitate roads damaged by Typhoon Ketsana;
(c) to establish and operationalize a contingency fund for quick disaster response in the road sector. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is road network improvement and preservation.
This component will finance physical works for the upgrading of two critical national road links, the periodic maintenance of the provincial road network, and road safety improvements. The second component of the project is institutional strengthening. The component will provide technical assistance to both the ministry of public works and transport and the provincial departments of public works and transport in the areas of sector strategic management, local road management, country system for environmental safeguard, fiduciary management, and internal controls. The third component of the project is disaster recovery and contingency. The component will fund spot rehabilitation and periodic maintenance of roads damaged by Typhoon Ketsana in the five affected southern provinces (Attapeu, Sekong, Saravanh, Champasack, and Savannakhet), and support an emergency contingency fund that will disburse quickly for emergency civil works and construction materials needed to ensure the passability and safety of the affected national and provincial road links. $500 million
Capacity Development in the Hydropower and Mining Sector
The objective of the Technical Assistance for Capacity Development in Hydropower and Mining Sectors Project for UCL is to increase human capacity and improve the performance of Government oversight institutions for the hydropower and mining sectors. There are five components to the project.
The first component of the project is joint hydropower and mining learning program. This component aims to building critically needed capacity and generating public awareness across the hydropower and mining sectors. The provision of adequate skills and training to government staff and the next generation of leaders for the two sectors will remove critical bottlenecks to the development of both sectors. The second component of the project is hydropower sector development.
The hydropower component aims at capacity building in support of sustainable hydropower development in Lao PDR. Activities will cover the entire value chain, from planning, concessioning, construction, and operation to revenue management. The third component of the project is mining sector development. The project will provide funding for three subcomponents pertaining to the mining sector which are:
a) improvement of sector governance and the enabling environment;
b) strengthening of government oversight capacity;
c) program to promote minerals development.
d) obtaining modernized equipment and techniques geared for each sector
The fifth component of the project is project administration and management. The project will support consultancy services for the project Secretariat established within Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) for coordination and management of the project implementation and acquisition of logistical and equipment support necessary for its smooth functioning. $600 million
Community Nutrition Project
The objective of the Community Nutrition Project for UCL is to improve coverage of essential maternal and child health services and improve mother and child caring practices among pregnant and lactating women and children less than two years old in the southern and central provinces. $50 million
Foreign Relations:
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Military:
Ask H&K to modify the
XM8 to chamber the
7.62x51 NATO considering it isn't a massive modification, it shouldn't be too hard. Also, acquire the new version as our main assault rifle $75 million
Form a 500 man Special Forces brigade, chosen out of the fittest physically and mentally of our soldiers. They should receive extensive training in the following areas: skydiving, amphibious movement, explosives, mixed martial arts (thinking Jeet Kune Do, Jiujitsu and Muay Thai), knife combat, improvised weapons, covert operations ect.
Have our troops well versed in jungle warfare
Adopt the
Command Post of the Future $25 million
Acquire the
RPG-29 as our main anti-armor weapon $50 million
Acquire the
UMP9 as our Close Quarters weapon. $50 million
Acquire the
FN MAG as our main machine gun $50 million
Acquire the
Zastava M93 as our anti-material rifle $50 million
Acquire the
L115A3 as our sniper rifle $50 million
Purchase the right to build the
Horizon class from Italy. $500 million
Develop an indigenous UAV. Aim for a total airtime of around 24 hours, night/thermal/regular vision modes, high-quality zoom, and carries three guided HE-Fragmentation or HEAT missiles (15 pound warhead) that can be laser or thermal guided. $100 million