Priority health concerns
Two daughters look at their mother who is dying from HIV/AIDS, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank, taken in 2002. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Two common features mark Cambodia’s major health concerns:Some health figures are among the worst in the world – the 26 cases of ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/priority-health-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Anti-corruption
Anti-Corruption Unit, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Michael Coghlan, taken on 9 January 2014. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0In the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International, released in January 2017, Cambodia ranked 156th out of 176 countries.74 Cambodia has the lowest score of all ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/anti-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land transfers
Land transfers in Cambodia assume a variety of forms involving both public and private entities. The right to transfer property to another and to be protected from forced transfer is essential to land tenure security. Land transfer capacity is a source of value for landowners, ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-transfers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Economy and commerce
Counting money. Photo by Aaron Gilson, taken on 5 April 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia re-opened for international trade in the 1980s, opened up to foreign investment in 1994, joined ASEAN in 1999, and became a member of the WTO in 2004. Its bilateral ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/economy-and-commerce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
System of government
UNTAC soldiers from India patrolling the streets in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, on the second day of voting. Photo by United Nations Transitional Authority of Cambodia (UNTAC), taken on May 24 1993. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Cambodia inherited legal and political systems and a state ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/system-of-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Industrial mining
There is no large industrial-scale extraction of minerals carried out in Cambodia yet, but many exploration licenses have been granted and some mining companies have reported promising finds of minerals such as gold. Today companies from China, Korea, Vietnam, Australia and elsewhere are exploring for ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/industrial-mining-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
State private land
All land that is not state public property or is not privately owned is de facto state private land. State private land may be sold, exchanged, leased, granted as concessions, or otherwise alienated. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/state-private-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Landmines UXO and demining
Cambodia is one of the countries most affected by land mines and explosive remnants of war as a result of its tumultuous history. The country is working with a variety of partners to demine the country by 2019. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/landmines-uxo-and-demining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Parliament
Upon the reinstatement of the second monarchy in 1993, Cambodian citizens are the master of their destiny and sources of all power. With the introduction of the liberal democracy in the Kingdom, all Cambodians at their 18 years or over, except where it is prescribed ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/parliament/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
United States aid
The United States of America (the US) is one of the biggest donors to Cambodia.200 201 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 ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/united-states-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Legal aid
Under Cambodia’s Constitution, all Khmer citizens have equal status before the law, regardless of wealth or station.262 This promotes a political principle called the rule of law,263 an ideal that all members of a society, both the people and the State, are held equally accountable ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/legal-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Social land concessions
Social land concessions (SLCs) are intended to provide to the landless or land-poor land on which to establish residences and/or generate income through agriculture. The Cambodian Government that more than 30,000 households have received land as social land concessions. Despite its pro-poor intention, the SLC ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/social-land-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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,330 especially poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/social-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Industries
Industries in Cambodia (excluding extractive industries and mining) are mostly within the garment, light manufacturing, agricultural, construction and tourism sectors. The Royal Government of Cambodia has set directions to transform Cambodia into a middle-income economy by 2030 and high-income country by 2050, as mandated in ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/industries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Health center budget
Access to information and open budgets is the first component of the Implementation Plan for the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF).397 The other three components are citizen monitoring, facilitation and capacity building, and learning and monitoring.398 Three types of local services providers are at the focus: ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/social-accountability/health-center-budget/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Poverty policy and regulation
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.431 Since the country’s first major post-civil war election in 1993, Cambodia ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/poverty-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Judiciary and courts
The judiciary is one of the three powers, together with the executive (the Government) and legislative (the National Assembly and the Senate), that constitute the state. 527 Its role is to monitor the application of the law and punish its violation. This power is vested ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/judiciary-and-courts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966 which headquarter is in Manila and currently has 68 members under its institution. The ADB aims to assist members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and investments to promote socio-economic development.575 The ADB has ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/asian-development-bank-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Quarrying
Small-scale quarries producing construction materials are a key part of the mining industry in Cambodia. Clay for brick and tile manufacturing and sand and gravel are found in many locations.Under the Law on Mineral Resource Management and Exploitation (‘the mining law’) there are six types ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/quarrying/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Private land
Rights to private land ownership were guaranteed in the 1993 Constitution and formally established by the 2001 Land Law. Despite an established legal framework to protect private property rights, those rights are often insecure for many. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/private-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
