Call for application: Youth-Led Project 2024 (YLP24 - Phase 1)
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is pleased to announce the call for application on Youth-Led Project 2024 (YLP24 – Phase 1). The program aims to strengthen the youths’ capacity for fundamental life and community development skills through various training and knowledge sharing as demonstrated during convening ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC)
Signing ceremony on the exchange of notes and record of discussions on grant aid and loan for 4 projects between Royal Government of Cambodia and Japan
On 30 March 2017 at 16:00, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,H.E Prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and H.E HORINOUCHI Hidehisa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Cambodia, signed on the exchange of notes and record of ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
CNRP Calls for Paris Peace Agreement Signatories to Intervene
CNRP vice president Kem Sokha on Thursday renewed the opposition party’s calls for the 18 signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in Cambodia, saying that the more than two-decades-old agreement had still not been properly implemented. The opposition has announced that October 23—the ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-calls-for-paris-peace-agreement-signatories-to-intervene-44432/
Anti-Corruption Unit Arrests Staff at UK Biofuel Firm
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has arrested two employees of a local company linked to a British biofuel firm currently under investigation by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), an official said Friday. ACU President Om Yentieng said that International Green Energy (IGE) director Oum Samnang, and ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-arrests-staff-at-uk-biofuel-firm-7972/
Land Disputes Focus Ire on Chinese Investors
Among thousands of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake district of the capital whose land has been targeted for redevelopment by a Chinese-financed real estate company, Tep Vanny carried a letter explaining the “sadness and suffering” caused by the project — which has turned Phnom ...
Social development
A trained medical staff listens to the heartbeat of an infant at 16 Makara hospital in Preah Vihear, Cambodia. Photo by The World Bank, taken on 30 January 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Social development addresses profound social problems,1 especially poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, ...
Water policy and administration
In Cambodia, alternate periods of drought and heavy rains bring challenges for water management. The current trends show increasing annual rainfall and temperature throughout Cambodia, with a likelihood that both flooding and droughts will increase in frequency, severity and duration68. Water management involves issues of ...
Urban administration and development
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, ...
ODC Resources at Work & Honorable Mentions
By making information accessible to anyone with an internet connection, ODC facilitates rational, fact‑based dialogue, improved communication, strengthened policy making, and better development planning across all sectors. The ODC website has been featured on Le Petit Journal, an online French newspaper, as a case of ...
BarCamp Sihanoukville 2013 Recap
On December 7th and 8th, a small team from ODC jumped in a bus and traveled to Kampong Som to participate in BarCamp Sihanoukville. The conference was held at Build Bright UniverSity. The day-and-a-half-long event featured presentations from specialists of many fields and interests, including ...