Around three quarters of Cambodia’s population depend on agriculture, forest products and fisheries for their livelihoods, so the management of the environment and natural resources is of great importance. Deforestation has occurred on a large scale. Cambodia lost six percent of its remaining primary forest href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/environment-and-natural-resources/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

SDG 7 focuses on affordable, reliable and sustainable access to modern energy services. This includes ensuring universal access to energy services (SDG 7.1), increasing the proportion of renewable energy sources used to supply these services (SDG 7.2) and doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg7-affordable-and-clean-energy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

table { width: 100%; } table td { vertical-align: middle; } Cambodians gathering along the Chaktomuk riverside in Phnom Penh to watch boat racing during the Water Festival. Photo by Patrik M. Loeff, taken on 24 November 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.PopulationProvisional results from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/population-and-censuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) was established through the Law on the organization and conduct of the National Bank of Cambodia in 1996.63 NBC is the nation’s central bank, whose mission is to determine and direct the monetary policy in order to maintain price href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/national-bank-of-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sustainable Development Goal 14 is primarily about the interactions of humans with the oceans. Specifically, it aims to conserve and manage the use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.99 A UN General Assembly call for action has been used to clearly articulate href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg14-life-below-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has acknowledged the potential of the tourism industry as a source of Cambodia’s socio-economy growth, including job creation and poverty reduction. Tourism has been considered one of Cambodia’s key economic pillars, both international and domestic. In the early 2000s, the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has 8 targets and 11 indicators, which will be used to drive action towards achieving universal access to safely managed water and sanitation and appropriate management of water resources.249 SDG 6 recognizes that sustainably managing water goes beyond providing a safe water href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-6-clean-water-and-sanitation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business continuity.299 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of SMEs should focus href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/smes-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

SDG 15 focuses on the sustainable use of terrestrial (land-based) biodiversity and ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, deserts and mountains and their interaction with freshwater systems. It aims to protect and restore their ecological function. The work includes applying sustainable land and forest management practices and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-15-life-on-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto Trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 GenericThe development and administration of Cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/urban-administration-and-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has continued its effort to reform the education sector at all levels. Over the years, policies and regulations have been enforced to improve education quality, accessibility, efficiency, effectiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency. Those policies and regulations include Education Strategic Plan 2019-2023, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/education-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, Cambodia. Photo by ILO/ Khem Sovannara, taken on 12 July 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Agriculture continues to play an important role in Cambodia’s economy, but it provides a livelihood for a smaller proportion of today’s population href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/agriculture-and-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Things you should know about Cambodia before investingCambodia has performed well on foreign direct investment (FDI) so far, three times better than predicted, which scored 3.6, becoming the top 25 in the world.601 The FDI reached an all-time high of 14.1% in 2012 and nearly href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/foreign-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As a fast-developing nation, Cambodia has always found poverty one of its main challenges. The Rectangular Strategy states that eradicating poverty has long been one of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC’s) highest priorities.631 Since the country’s first major post-civil war election in 1993, Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/poverty-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

According to the Annual supervision report 2020 by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the key bodies in the banking system consists of:51 commercial banks12 specialized banks75 microfinance non-deposit taking institutions6 microfinance deposit-taking institutions245 rural credit institutionsIn addition, there are financial leasing companies, third-party processors, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/banking-and-financial-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The United States of America (the US) is one of the biggest donors to Cambodia.805 806 The history of cooperation and relations between the two countries can be traced back to the early 1950s after Cambodia received full independence from France. In 1955, the first href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/united-states-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is set up as a multi-party democracy under a constitutional monarchy. The King serves as the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Norodom Sihamoni,867 the King, was crowned in 2004 after the abdication of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One of the key goals of the 2030 Agenda is to “decouple economic growth from resource use and environmental degradation”.891 Sustainable consumption and production involves promotion of resource and energy efficiency as well as reduction of economic, social and environmental costs. These are intended to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-12-responsible-consumption-and-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The EU Ambassador to Cambodia, Carmen Moreno, shook hands with Prime Minister Hun Sen at Peace Palace on December 2, 2019. Photo from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.European Union (EU) has been one of Cambodia’s biggest trading partners and a major development partner since href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/european-union-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) seeks to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”, ensuring universal access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for everyone at all times. Likewise, it provides a much more comprehensive approach to the issue href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-2-zero-hunger/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...