Revision for Reuters
Yesterday a Reuters news story, “Insight: China gambles on Cambodia’s shrinking forests,” which also ran in today’s Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily, mentioned Open Development Cambodia, and suggested that we are partnering with a local advocacy group to track concessions. This is not accurate. Like href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/revision-for-reuters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on official result of voter registration for preparing new voter lists 2016
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “official result of voter registration for preparing new voter lists 2016”. This dataset shows the data of voter registration in 25 provinces and capital across the country including name of provinces/capital, total number of commune/sangkat and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on%e2%80%8b-official-result-of-voter-registration-for-preparing-new-voter-lists-2016/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on temporary number of voter turnout in the commune election (2017)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset on “temporary number of voter turnout in the commune election (2017)”. This dataset shows temporary number of voter turnout during the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election which is contained the data of voter turnout in 25 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on-temporary-number-of-voter-turnout-in-the-commune-election-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new online resource on "zoning guidelines on protected areas in Cambodia"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource on “Zoning Guidelines on Protected Areas in Cambodia”, the draft final version released by Ministry of Environment. The guidelines are created for all stakeholders to use as a reference in defining and allocating the four href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-online-resources-on-drafting-of-zoning-guidelines-on-protected-areas-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Joint press release on Cambodia fundamental freedoms monitor 2022 annual report
On 7 September 2023, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), and the Solidarity Center announced the release of the 2022 Annual Report of the Cambodia Fundamental Freedoms Monitor produced by the Fundamental Freedoms Monitoring Project (FFMP).The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-press-release-on-cambodia-fundamental-freedoms-monitor-2022-annual-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
Red Cross
The Cambodia Red Cross (CRC) is the principal humanitarian society in Cambodia. The government has designated it as an auxiliary to public bodies offering humanitarian assistance. In addition to the national headquarters, the CRC has 25 branches.1 CRC was founded in 1955 and has worked href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/red-cross/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Exports
Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, and other Cambodian Ministers were at the Aid for Trade Global Review 2019. Photo by World Trade Organization (WTO), taken on 03 July 2019. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.After two decades of strong economic performance, Cambodia moved into the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land tenure and land titling NGOs
There are four major international donors to land rights development and reform in Cambodia: the World Bank, Germany, Finland and Canada. Their support spans multiple programs and several years with the overall objective of improving land tenure security and promoting stable land markets. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-tenure-and-land-titling-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cooking fuel
Firewood and charcoal are the main sources of energy for households and many small and medium enterprises, such as brick and tile industries. The cooking fuels used in Cambodia have changed greatly in the last decade. The National Census 2008 showed that 91 percent of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/cooking-fuel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new profile page on "environmental impact assessments"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new profile page on “Environmental impact assessments”. This page shows completed environmental and social impact assessment reports (EIAs). The reports contain information such as company profile, address, registered investment capital, company registration date and code, contract duration, project size, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-environmental-impacts-assessments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Garment sector peace sought
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on unions, employers and the Ministry of Labour to take a collaborative approach to stamping out violent protests in the garment industry, a unionist said yesterday. During a Saturday conference involving 4,000 people from more than 60 union groups, Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-sector-peace-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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PM announces oil-food equation hurting poor
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blamed soaring food prices on fuel prices set by oil cartels like OPEC, appealing to oil-producing countries to pay attention to the connection between food security and energy. Cambodia imports 100 per cent of its oil, and the majority of agriculture href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-announces-oil-food-equation-hurting-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land concession cancelled by PM
The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-concession-cancelled-by-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Training needed for tourist industry
Representatives of Cambodia’s booming tourism industry yesterday called on the Asian Development Bank to provide funding for workforce training in the sector. During the meeting at the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, tour operator Ho Vandy, who also co-chairs the Tourism Working Group in the Government-Private Sector Forum, said representatives href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/training-needed-for-tourist-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes new map layer on Water and Sanitation
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s water and sanitation coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the maps illustrate the information of the access to latrines and drinking water in the country’s rural areas. (Water href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-new-map-layer-on-water-and-sanitation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Disaster and emergency response funding”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Disaster and emergency response funding”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of Disaster and emergency response funding in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Disaster and emergency response funding”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-disaster-and-emergency-response-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Poverty policy and regulation”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Poverty policy and regulation”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of Poverty policy and regulation in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Poverty policy and regulation”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-poverty-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Forest protection
Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia since the 1970s, and it has aggravated inthe last decade. Some protected areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 hectares (11.7%) of forest cover in protected areas.89 This loss has had an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/forest-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
ODC’s second GIS workshop: Data collection and application of GIS
In the previous blogpost we kicked off the first series of QGIS workshop in which we highlighted the activities and results of the successful 24 participants which have been attended and awarded with a certificate during the three-day workshop. After we introduced the principle of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odcs%e2%80%8b-second%e2%80%8b-gis%e2%80%8b-workshop%e2%80%8b-data%e2%80%8b-collection%e2%80%8b-and%e2%80%8b-application%e2%80%8b-of%e2%80%8b-gis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Four community fisheries in Kampot attended a training on business plan and digital literacy
On 17 May 2024, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) organized a full-day training in Tuek Chhou district, Kampot province, attended by 24 participants, including six women who lead or run businesses from four community fisheries and tourism communities: Trapeang Sangke, Kampong Samaki, Prek Tnaot, and Trapeang href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/four-community-fisheries-in-kampot-attended-a-training-on-business-plan-and-digital-literacy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
