Development Economics and Trade

JICA Research Institute

A Survey on Impacts of COVID-19 Crisis on Cambodian Households

The recent coronavirus pandemic has triggered economic crises in both developing and developed countries. In the case of Cambodia, the number of infections is low relative to other neighbouring ASEAN countries, such as Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia. However, several sectors have been seriously affected by the non-pharmaceutical measures and stop...

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Educational Research and Innovation

Ponlok Chammes Australia Aid TAF

Thnal Udom Chomnes: Promoting Cambodian Higher Education Innovation

This three-year programme is supported by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through The Asia Foundation (TAF)’s Ponlok Chomnes Programme: Data and Dialogue for Development in Cambodia. In this programme CDRI aims at strengthening the capacity of knowledge-sector institutions to undertake quality research, informing public policy analysis...

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Governance and Inclusive Society

Sida

Local Leadership in Cambodia

Since the end of the war, Cambodia has undergone significant social, economic and demographic change as well as governance reform. In 2002, the first local elections of the post-war era elected local government councils. This study repeats an ethnographic study previously conducted by CDRI in some Cambodian communes in 2007,...

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Educational Research and Innovation

Sida

Education Research for Effective Policy Reforms

A five-year project called ‘Education Research for Effective Policy Reforms’ with a total funding of USD446,713 aims to produce independent, objective, high quality policy-relevant higher education research, and to maximise the accessibility of this knowledge to policymakers, influencers and stakeholders, and its policy impact. This project also works to make...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

Cambodia’s Agri-Food Trade: Structure, Challenges, New Emerging Potentials, and Impacts of Covid-19

From the early 1990s, Cambodia’s agricultural food trade was seen as exports of raw materials and unprocessed primary commodities to neighboring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. The production and processing capacity were remarkably low at the time. Realizing the tremendous amount of the exports and great loss of value-added...

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Educational Research and Innovation

Higher Education Policy Research & Influencing in Cambodia

The “Higher Education Policy Research & Influencing in Cambodia” was one of the major programmes implemented by the Education Unit of the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI). Receiving financial support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the three-year programme aimed to produce independent, objective, high quality...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

IFAD

Network for Agriculture and Rural Development Thinktanks (NARDT) for Countries in Mekong subregion

The Network of Agriculture and Rural Development Think-tanks (NARDT) project is designed to form a consortium with flexible cooperation mechanism where think tanks of different stakeholders of Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao and Vietnam can work together in an effective manner to improve the quality of policies in agriculture and rural development...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

Sida

On-farm Food Safety in Horticulture in Cambodia: The Case of Vegetable Farming

Despite being an agrarian economy, Cambodia imported vegetables approximately 70 percent of the total domestic consumption because the commercialized vegetable farming in Cambodia is inadequate, let alone the commercial investment in the export-based horticulture (USAID, 2015). Vegetable farming accounts for only around 2 percent of the temporary crop area in the...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

PEP

Migration, Remittances and Child Schooling in Rural Cambodia

Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about the investments in education of the children left behind in Cambodia. We draw on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and child schooling. The analysis reveals that...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

UNDP Bangkok

Economic Return to Investment in Education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) on Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship Development

As part of the UN Joint Programme, UNDP seeks to examine the relationship between the economic/ monetary returns at individual, household and national level of investments in education and technical vocational education and training (TVET).  Therefore, this study will be done in concerted efforts with the Ministry of Education Youth...

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Agriculture and Rural Development

WB

Impact Evaluation of Community-Based Childcare Centres (CBCCs)

To design, administer, and disseminate the results of an impact evaluation of community-based day-cares for the children of garment factory workers (CBCC) in Kampong Speu Province, Kandal Province, and other areas. To design a rigorous program evaluation that answers pre-specified research questions on the impact of professional, high-quality daycare on...

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Development Economics and Trade

SDC SNSF

Contribution of Vocational Skills Development to Inclusive Industrial Growth and Transformation: An Analysis of Critical Factors in Cambodia (Skills for Industry)

The project is implemented in two phases. Phase 1 focuses on the demand side of the labour market in garments, electronic and electrical assembly, and food processing industries. It aims at understanding the linkages between company growth and transformation as well as vocational skills development. Phase 2 is devoted to...

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