Agriculture
This study examines the agricultural commodities with the greatest potential for export to Mekong countries and China. It aims to answer the questions: How can Cambodia increase production of agricultural commodities with the most potential for export to China and ASEAN countries to improve trade balance in the region? What are the challenges and how can Cambodia increase agricultural commodity exports to the Mekong region?
Research responds to the need for innovative support services as smallholder farmers with low average levels of education, or those living in remote and poorly connected areas, simply do not know about improved practices or new production processes; even when access exists, farmers do not necessarily know how to use new technologies effectively.
One of three prioritised policy studies under FAO’s pro-poor policy approach to address risk and vulnerability at the country level, research on off-farm income generation activities aims to gain a better understanding of the riskiness of off-farm income and vulnerabilities among smallholders and the landless poor.
USAID-HARVEST Final Impact Evaluation
- Agriculture
Research assessed the impact of Cambodia HARVEST, a five-year integrated food security and climate change program supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Synergies and Trade-offs with Intensification of Rice and Livestock Production in Cambodia
- Agriculture
What are the benefits, costs and risks of switching from flood recession to regulated, irrigated agriculture in Cambodia, considering food production, land, water, energy and livelihoods?
A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Approach for Cambodia: Research uses CGE modelling with available social accounting matrix to examine the impacts of public education consumption on the macroeconomic environment, labour market and household welfare in Cambodia. This rigorous, systematic country-wide analysis has helped fill a critical knowledge gap by quantifying the complex impacts of education spending on labour market trends and household welfare.
Economics
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation and the Development of Regional Textile & Apparel Value Chains
- Economics
Lead researcher: Dr VEN Seyhah Project partner: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Project period: 2018
Microfinance and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in Rural Cambodia
- Economics
Lead researcher: Dr OUCH Chandarany Project partner: Partnership for Economic Policy program (PEP) Project period: 2018-2019
Enhancing Industrial Development for Youth Employment, SME and Economic Growth in Cambodia
- Economics
Lead researcher: Dr OUCH Chandarany Project partner: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Project period: 2018-2019 Research components: 1). integrating and upgrading Cambodia’s participation in global value chains; 2). promoting small and medium enterprise in the broad framework of industrial de
Lead researcher: Dr SAING Chan Hang Project partner: Partnership for Economic Policy program (PEP) Project period: 2018-2019 The aim of the study is to investigate the role of remittances and absence of migrant household members on human capital formation in rural Cambodia. It asks whether migration reduces or increases educational attainment among school-age children
Lead researcher: Dr VEN Seyhah Project partner: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Project period: 2018 Objectives: 1). collecting, validating and storing NTMs data from official sources; 2). improving general understanding of these measures and their impact on world trade; and 3). providing insights o
Objectives:
- expanding our understanding of the drivers of sustained and transitory poverty escapes, in addition to those of chronic poverty, across contexts and to draw out policy and programming implications which will contribute to USAID’s overall mandate of ending extreme poverty; and
- analyse panel data to determine drivers of transitory and sustained poverty
Lead researcher: Dr OUCH Chandarany Project partner: Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia (PUC) Project period: 2018-2020 Research questions: What are the critical factors that help or hinder the contribution of vocational skills development to inclusive industrial growth and transformation in low and middle-income coun
Agricultural trade between China and the greater Mekong sub-region countries: Value Chain Analysis
- Economics
Objectives:
- taking stocks of non-tariff measures applied on cross-border movement of agricultural commodities with the GMS;
- identifying bottlenecks to agricultural trade and understanding complex relationship between actors in whole value chains; and
- targeted policy recommendations for improving important weaknesses in each country’s agricultural value chain.
Inequality and fiscal accountability in Cambodia
- Economics
Examining connection between tax and government spending on social services, namely education, health and social protection, and inequality.
Preliminary findings: taxation has been geared toward equity by increasing salary threshold and introducing exemptions on necessity goods and services; evidence of pro-poorness of spending on health, but not spending on education, while the impact of social protection spending on inequality is not likely since its scope and coverage is limited.
- Economics
Objective: To study about the government’s strategy to develop Sihanoukville Province into a multi-purpose Special Economic Zone under the Industrial Development Policy (IDP) and the possible utilization of BRI in this endeavour. Lead researcher: Mr HING Vutha Project partner: Cambodia 21st Maritime Silk Road Research Center Project
- Economics
This study uses a randomized experiment to examine the treatment effects of participating in a two-month vocational training program in hospitality on employment and job-related skills, targeted at economically disadvantaged youth in Cambodia. Specifically, this research addresses the following research questions:
- Does training help individuals obtain a job?
- What are the barriers to take-up training and complete it?
Better Prospects in the Mekong Region (GMS-NET)
- Economics
Objectives
- develop policy options, new practices and institutional arrangements for more jobs with better working conditions, especially in the context of the ASEAN Economic Community; and
- examine the current role of the private sector in job creation (labour market demand) and workforce skills development (labour market supply)
This research aims to answer the following key questions:
- What are types of NTMs imposed on Cambodia’s fisheries exports?
- How NTMs affect fisheries exports?
- Whether the country is required to make any major improvement on the domestic standard setting rules and facilities as mutual recognition agreements may require improvement and upgrading of production methods in order to meet the required standards set by the agreement?
This research seeks to study about the government’s strategy to develop Sihanoukville Province into a multi-purpose Special Economic Zone under the Industrial Development Policy (IDP) and the possible utilization of OBOR initiative in this endeavor. This research focuses on three core questions:
- What and how the development of Sihanoukville Province into a multi-purpose Special Economic Zone contribute to achieving IDP goal?
- What are complementary components and polici
This research project is among the four research components in the five-year research program on ‘industrial development, human capital and SME development in Cambodia’. The overall objectives of this research are to map Cambodia’s participation in GVCs and identify gaps in major components of GVC. Key research questions are:
- Where is Cambodia positioning in GVCs in comparison to other ASEAN countries such as Vietnam and Thailand?
- What are production compo
Lead researcher: Dr VEN Seyhah Project partner: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Project period: 2016-2018
Education
Gender equity in TVET: policy and practical solutions to mainstreaming gender in TVET
Education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Permeability between Higher Education and TVET
Education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Consolidation of TVET system, curriculum and quality assurance
Education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Public Private Partnership in TVET
Education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
TVET models of Asian countries and Switzerland
Education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Quality assurance model for Cambodia higher education
Education - Higher Education
Entrepreneurship curriculum development in HEIs
Education - Higher Education
Quality and quantity issues in upper secondary
Education - Higher Education
Accountability in universities in Cambodia
Education - Higher Education
Governance and Financing Higher Education
Education - Higher Education
Internationalization of Higher Education
Education - Higher Education
Education - Higher Education
Diversity and Typology of Universities in Cambodia
Education - Higher Education
STEM Studies for Labour Market
Education - Higher Education
Environment
Contract Farming in the Lancang-Mekong Region
- Environment
Lead researcher: Mr CHHIM Chhun Project period: 2018-2019
Lead researcher: Mr OUCH Chhuong Project period: 2017-2018
Lead researcher: Mr NONG Monin Project period: 2018-2019
Impact of climate change programs in Cambodia: Vulnerability, poverty, gender and human rights
- Environment
Lead researcher: Dr CHEM Phalla Project period: 2018-2021
Empowering Women for Climate Resilience in Cambodia
- Environment
Lead researcher: Mr NONG Monin Project partners: 1) Akphivat Strey; 2) Children and Women Development Center in Caambodia; 3) Ponlork Khmer; 4) Women Organization for Modern Economy and Nursing Project period: 2017-2019
The project aims at empowering 80 local women community leaders to better respond to climate chan
Space for Dialogue: People, Perceptions and Principled Outcomes in the Governance of the Mekong
- Environment
This 3-years (2015-2017) project was funded by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) which is a research center and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystem (WLE). The project is constructed with five inter-connected components: 1). Good Governance in the Mekong; 2). Mekong Governance Opportunities; 3). Vision for Mekong Governance; 4). Women in Mekong Governance; and 5). Mekong Governance Outside of Government.
This 5-years (2016-2021) project was funded by Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) with the focus on three different themes: 1). Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; 2). Community-based adaptation; and 3). Natural resource governance.
Governance
Literature review on Cambodian youth
- Governance
As the first paper of CDRI’s five-year Ponlork research program, this literature review makes an inventory of what is known in this relatively new field, aiming to define a more narrow research agenda with a slightly more theoretical approach. The review includes a broad range of existing literature, mostly empirical, including on youth’s expectations and aspirations, political values and attitudes, relationships with family, community and other social organisations such as politica
- Governance
The MK20 project aims to support good Mekong governance by exploring both key challenges and opportunities for creating a space for dialogue, for decisions to be perceived as binding and legitimate, and for intense deliberation and negotiation. MK20 is being implemented by CDRI, as a lead organisation, and Consortium partners: the Institute of Water Policy, National University of Singapore; the NGO Forum on Cambodia; and the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. CDRI’s role is t
Edited volume on Cambodian youth
- Governance
With the tentative title “Unfolding impact of a new generation of young Cambodians on society and politics”, this edited volume aims to explore the activities, attitudes and aspirations of young Cambodians who are playing a very important role in transforming Cambodian politics and society. It intends to bring together existing studies primarily by Cambodian researchers about Cambodian youth.