ASEAN 2030: Growing Together for Economic Prosperity – The Challenges
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Cambodia’s development trajectory and its aspirations toward 2030 within the ASEAN framework. Despite its post-conflict legacy, Cambodia has achieved notable progress in peace, stability, and economic growth over the past two decades. The study outlines Cambodia’s economic transformation, highligh...
Gender and Water Governance: Women’s Role in Irrigation Management and Development in the Context of Climate Change
This study explores the role of women in irrigation management and agricultural development in Cambodia, particularly in the context of climate change. Drawing on fieldwork in three provinces—Kompong Thom, Pursat, and Kompong Chhnang—the research examines gender roles, constraints, and adaptive capacities within Farmer Water User Communities (...
Impact of Decentralisation on Cambodia’s Urban Governance
This study explores the effects of decentralisation on urban governance in Cambodia, focusing on the role and performance of sangkats—the lowest administrative units in urban areas. While decentralisation has been promoted as a means to enhance local democracy, accountability, and service delivery, its implementation in urban contexts remains u...
Gatekeepers in Local Politics: Political Parties in Cambodia and Their Gender Policy
Gender issues have become a part of mainstream Cambodian politics over the last decade, and gender-neutral electoral systems have been developed in cooperation between donors and government. Female representation has been achieved primarily through direct and indirect elections at different levels. And although Cambodia is a male-dom...
Anatomy of Higher Education Governance in Cambodia
Higher education plays a fundamental role in enhancing the intellectual capacity essential to creative leadership in all fields of national activity and in providing a skilled workforce able to respond to changing labour market demands. All citizens, and particularly the poor, need the opportunity and the skills to participate produc...
20 Years’ Strengthening of Cambodian Civil Society: Time for Reflection
In the 1980s and 1990s a large number of NGOs emerged in Cambodia, primarily in response to donors’ agendas on strengthening civil society to curb repressive developing country governments and support a broad democratisation process. Over the last 20 years, donor money has been concentrated on funding a small group of NGOs, mostly located in the co...
Sub-National Civil Society in Cambodia: A Gramscian Perspective
Several authors (particularly Laundau 2008; Henke 2011) label Cambodian national civil society as a sphere that is neither apolitical nor autonomous, but influenced or co-opted by and blurred with the state. They posit that a Gramscian perspective is relevant to interpreting civil society in the country. This article suggests that the application o...
Levels and Sources of Household Income in Rural Cambodia 2012
This study investigates the levels and sources of household income in rural Cambodia from 2004 to 2012, using data from the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey and a 2012 rural household survey conducted by CDRI. It reveals that rural households primarily depend on agriculture, though its share in total income declined over time, while salaries and...
Climate Change Adaptation and Livelihoods in Inclusive Growth: A Review of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptive Capacity in Cambodia
This review outlines existing knowledge (context-specific and localised) of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, assesses the limitations of different frameworks and approaches used by various initiatives in Cambodia, and identifies knowledge gaps for future research. It explores the impacts of climate change on livelihoods through...
Leveraging Trade for Economic Growth in Cambodia
This paper attempts to answer three important questions: (1) Why does trade matter? (2) Whyis trade vital for Cambodia’s growth? (3) What policy priorities for Cambodia will make tradework for economic growth?First, trade matters because it increases growth. Openness to trade affects growth by: allowing a country to exploit its comparative adv...