Bilateral development assistance
Phum Doung Bridge over the Tatai River. Photo by Robert Tyabji, taken on 9 December 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country or to a local NGO. The Royal Government of Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joint workshop on SERVIR and climate services support activity in Cambodia
On 20 February 2018, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and The Asia Foundation (TAF) have organized a joint workshop on “sERVIR and climate services support activity in Cambodia” at Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh, funded by the Chemonics International. The purpose of this workshop is to share ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC 2020 annual staff retreat and reflection
Following a long tradition, the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team had the chance to go on the off-site Annual staff Retreat and Reflection between the 20th and the 23rd of January 2021. The team spent four days at Chi-Phat Ecotourism Community and Tatai Paradise Eco ss='cambodia-color'>...
SMEs policy and regulation
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.37 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of sMEs should focus ss='cambodia-color'>...
2nd Workshop: data collection and application of GIS
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce the second Workshop: on Data Collection and Application of GIs. The workshop aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on conducting data collection with mobile application and using of GIs in natural resource management and disaster management with ss='cambodia-color'>...
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Experts shared diverse perspectives and insights on ESG evolving in Cambodia
In recent years, Environmental, social, and Governance (EsG) practices have gained significant traction globally, and Cambodia is no exception to this trend. As global markets, particularly those based in the European Union, set increasingly stringent environmental regulatory standards, Cambodian businesses face both challenges and opportunities ss='cambodia-color'>...
Workshop 2: Data-driven journalism
You have found an interesting topic to write about? support your article with data! To learn more about data-driven journalism Open Development Cambodia, in cooperation with Cambodian Center for Independent Media, hosted the second two-day workshop for journalists and journalism students on May 24-25 2018. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Development and assistance for land tenure and land titling
Beginning in 2002, the World Bank, Germany, Finland and Canada began a joint-program to promote land tenure security in Cambodia by providing financial and technical support to land titling efforts. Following the eviction of residents of the Boeung Kak Lake area of Phnom Penh due ss='cambodia-color'>...
Major banks
In 2020, COVID-19 severely impacted both the global and Cambodia economies. The banking system in Cambodia is also affected but at a moderate and manageable level.85 The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), Cambodia Microfinance Association, and other relevant institutions pointed out the rate of the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Second Training Workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA)
Following the success of the first edition in March 2020 in Phnom Penh, the 2nd Training Workshop on strategic Environment Assessment (sEA) was conducted on August 26th and 27th in Battambang after being postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Investment
Cambodia restructured its economy after many years of protracted war and instability. The economy grew strongly following the country’s transition to a free-market economy as it opened to trade and capital flows. Growth was supported by the flow of development assistance, access to the European ss='cambodia-color'>...
Renewable energy production
Renewable sources of energy include biofuels, solar, wind, tidal and geothermal energy. Fossil fuels such as petroleum or coal are not renewable. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Tanks, Rocket Launchers Seen Leaving Sihanoukville
Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Chhorn Chansy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tanks-rocket-launchers-seen-leaving-sihanoukville-39825/
Anti-Eviction Protesters Clash With Security Forces
Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local ss='cambodia-color'>...
Alex Willemyns and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-eviction-protesters-clash-with-security-forces-44882/
Cambodian Opposition Holds Protest Rally Amid Vote-Tampering Suspicions
A top court ordered Cambodia’s electoral body on Monday to unseal voting records in a second province as the main opposition party held a 20,000-strong rally with an ultimatum to the government to set up an independent probe on widespread irregularities in recently-held national elections ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/elections-08262013195332.html
Using ICT and Maps in promoting STEM Education for the public high school in Cambodia
The project Cambodian Civil Society Strengthening (CCSS), funded by the United StateS Agency for International Development (USAID) through the EaSt-WeSt Management InStitute (EWMI), haS been implemented by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology of the MiniStry of Education, Youth SS='cambodia-color'>...
Research travel grants
Grant Opportunities for Bachelor Research supportBackgroundOpen Development Cambodia (ODC) is an ‘open data’ website, the first of its kind in southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC participated in Barcamp ASEAN 2017
Barcamp ASEAN 2017&nbSp;took place on October 21-22, at InStitute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The principle of the camp iS to&nbSp;bring and gatherS together the participantS in Cambodia and the regional for the open exchange of knowledge, SkillS, and experienceS on how SS='cambodia-color'>...
Jobs
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ specializes in aggregating data and developing interactive digital maps and datasets. Data from many sources are collated into an easily-accessed platform, opening space for informed discussion of development issues. ODC was launched in 2011 as an independent, politically-neutral body and ss='cambodia-color'>...