Educational Research and Innovation

Thnal Udom Chomnes: Promoting Cambodian Higher Education Innovation

Start Date: 01/06/2019

End Date: 31/12/2021

Project Objective

  • To undertake policy-relevant research to influence higher education reforms in Cambodia
  • To produce high-quality, accessible and user-friendly research outputs in the forms of both practical and theoretical knowledge
  • To build the knowledge, skills and capacity of CDRI in its effort to become a leading institute of development policy research, locally and regionally
  • To establish collaborative partnerships for policy and scholarship dialogue and research between CDRI and relevant stakeholders both within and outside Cambodia, including government agencies, HEIs, the private sector and development partners

Project Description

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 and dialogue, and addressing key issues Cambodian higher education sub-sector is facing.