Development and assistance for poverty reduction and food security
USAID’s Harvest program is helping Cambodia’s farmers. Photo by USAID, taken on 09 December 2013. Under the license CC BY-ND 2.0.The country has achieved remarkable sustainable growth, however, poverty and food security remain the challenges. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has acknowledged that to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/development-and-assistance-for-poverty-reduction-and-food-security/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Wild capture commercial fishing and natural fisheries
The fishes on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Photo by llee Wu, taken on 10 September 2010. Licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0The 2006 Fisheries Law classifies fishing activity into three broad categories: family or subsistence, small-scale and commercial.Commercial fishing is allowed only in the open season href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/commercial-fishing-and-natural-fisheries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Animals
Cambodian animals are state property under Article 48 of the Forestry Law of 2002. This places the Forestry Administration (FA) in charge of research programs and conservation duties. The FA carries this out through its Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity. Conservation programs in the field href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/animals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land classifications
Land in Cambodia is divided into three classifications: private property, state private property and state public property. The distinction between state private property and state public property is essential to determining how state land is to be used. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-classifications/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Banking and financial services
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'>...
MoE: Notice on dissemination of the updated documents for environmental and social safety
On 12 March 2020, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) released a public announcement on dissemination of the updated documents for environmental and social safety in the implementation of the project “Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism in Cambodia”, in the purpose to increase public awareness and getting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/moe-notice%e2%80%8b-on-dissemination%e2%80%8b-of%e2%80%8b-the-updated%e2%80%8b-documents%e2%80%8b-for%e2%80%8b-environmental%e2%80%8b-and%e2%80%8b-social%e2%80%8b-safety/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Environment
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new profile page on "Administrative services provided by one window service office"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Administrative services provided by one window service office” under Access to public services. The spreadsheet contains information both in Khmer and English including service type, eligible customers, service standard, required document and references.=> Please click here to get href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-administrative-services-provided-by-one-window-service-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Climate action plan needed
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said yesterday that climate change will be a concern in some Asian countries, including Cambodia. He encouraged the countries to find ways to manage any affects on their economies. Economists recognize it will lower growth in some main sectors of the economy – href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-action-plan-needed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101259257/Business/climate-action-plan-needed.html
Garment Makers Gear Up for IPOs
Two foreign-owned garment manufacturers will submit disclosure documents to Cambodia’s capital market regulator next month, the companies’ underwriter Phnom Penh Securities Firm Plc. said yesterday. The initial public offerings for the two private companies, expected by the end of the year, should boost action on the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-makers-gear-up-for-ipos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062957093/Business/garment-makers-gear-up-for-ipos.html
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Labor arbitration"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Labor arbitration”, under Labor in both Khmer and English.=>Please click here to go to Labor arbitration topic page. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-labor-arbitration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new page on Priority health concerns
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Priority health concerns” under Social development in both Khmer and English.=>Please click here to get in to Priority health concerns page. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-priority-health-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sihanoukville port sees steady growth
Revenue at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port increased 13.6 per cent year on year between January and June, port officials confirmed yesterday. As the state-owned enterprise gears up for listing on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, the neighbouring Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone will play an increasingly important role in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-port-sees-steady-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070357157/Business/sihanoukville-port-growth.html
Environment and natural resources
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'>...
Leveraging ICT tools for effective and safe working: how I engage ODC team during remote work
Getting things done is hard during challenging times when we probably seem living in a busy world. Relatively, remote working is suddenly seen replacing social norm practice which is not something that we can adapt or learn quickly overnight. Every move is a step to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/leveraging-ict-tools-for-effective-and-safe-working-how-i-engage-odc-team-during-remote-work/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Environment and natural resources policy and administration
The 7th National Consultation Workshop on the Draft of the Environment and Natural Resource Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Photo by Open Development Cambodia, taken on 22 March 2018. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.With 76% of its people living in rural areas,163 Cambodia holds href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/environment-and-natural-resources-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Concessions
A land concession is a grant of rights over an area of land for a specific purpose. In Cambodia land concessions can be granted for various purposes, including agribusiness, redistribution of land to the landless and land-poor, infrastructure development, mining and fishing. They have been href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Photo taken from the ministry’s Facebook Page, taken on 23 August 2023.EstablishmentUnder Royal Decree No. NS/RKM/0196/10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) was formally established on 24 January 1996. The ministry has a total of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-international-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES)
Forest view. Photo by Open Development Cambodia, taken on 05 December 2021. Under license CC BY-SA 4.0.Cambodia is covered with forest, accounting for around 13.1 million hectares in 1973, and it is had fallen to 8.7 million hectares in 2014.239 However, based on the Ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/carbon-trading-and-other-payments-for-ecological-services-pes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Civil and commercial litigation
Since 1993, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has been working to reform the country’s legal framework, and in particular the application of justice, to provide a clear and fixed procedural system to ensure respect for individual rights and equality before the courts.281 In theory, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/civil-and-commercial-litigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup #15
Mean Nara, ODC’s Senior Mapper, spoke to the audience about the launch of the GeoServer.On April 30, the ODC team hosted a monthly Phnom Penh Mapping Meet-up (PPMM), in which ODC, Atlas, and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut presented on the recent project updates and results. As href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/phnom-penh-mapping-meetup-15/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
