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International NGOs working within the Natural Resources Management sector in Cambodia have historically engaged in a system where they enter into various forms of Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and agreements with their Government partners. The current system is confusing, misunderstood by many individual within the Government and the NGO community, and lacks a high level of standardization based on legal requirements. There is an identifiable hierarchy to the MOUs and agreements that are currently in use. At the top of the hierarchy are MOUs between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFA) and NGOs. These MOUs are “boilerplate ” standardized documents that are used as a bureaucratic screening process prior to NGOs beginning operations in the country. Once entered into, these MOUs are rarely referred to by the NGOs that have entered into them. Next are the Government partner MOUs between the NGO and an identified partner in Government that the NGO will be working with. Based on issues related to the time it takes to enter into the agreement, political choices, and who the NGO will actually be working with, the MOUs may be entered into at the ministerial or departmental level of government. These MOUs share common characteristics, but are not standardized. The format and content of the MOU i