On 13 February 2023, 93 Media and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) released a joint statement to express their deeply disturbed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order to revoke the license of Voice of Democracy (VOD), and also condemn the recent sexual harassment and intimidation of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-statement-media-and-civil-society-groups-deeply-disturbed-by-governments-decision/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Primary schools in 2022”. This dataset shows the performance, expenditure, and revenue budget of each primary school in 2022 of each commune in the targeted communes/Sangkat under the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC).=>Please click href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-primary-schools-in-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Health centers in 2022”. This dataset shows the performance, expenditure, and revenue budget of each health center in targeted communes/ Sangkat for the implementation of the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) by 2022.=> Please href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-health-centers-in-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Commune/Sangkat budget in 2022”. This dataset shows the expenditures and revenues in 2022 of each commune in the targeted Communes/Sangkat under the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC).=> Please click here to go to “Commune/Sangkat href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-commune-sangkat-budget-in-2022/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Obviously, COVID-19 has forced many people’s lives to a certain degree as the fear of its spreading compels the government to take strict measures and fellow citizens are advised to abide by. At ODC, working from home appears to be an alternative and Information and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/afar-but-not-apart-ict-as-the-solutions-to-work-and-communicate-from-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About the PartnershipIn 2019, Cambodia, for the first time, is presenting the Voluntary National Review (VNR) at the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (UNHLPF) in July in New York City. The Ministry of Planning (MoP) takes the lead in this country-driven process of the review href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/partnerships/ministry-of-planning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As a part of the Global Week of Action to mobilize support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ODC’s team spread word on its website, social media, and in person, at the launch of Prayuters Library in Preah Vihear province.Observers may note that while many href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/cambodias-special-18th-sustainable-development-goal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Goal 16’s full title is “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” It has a monitoring framework of 12 targets (2 around means of implementation) and 23 indicators.  Transition href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-16-peace-justice-and-strong-institutions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Penhleak providing a “walk” through the ODC websiteOn Saturday, October 19, ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Chan Penhleak gave an interactive presentation session on “How to Locate, Fact-Check, and Share Cambodia’s Development Data” at the BarCamp Phnom Penh, which was held at the Institute of Technology of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/taking-odcs-data-collection-ethos-to-barcamp-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

(Reuters) – A deadlock over Cambodia’s disputed election hardened on Monday as the opposition rejected official results confirming a victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s long-ruling party and raised the prospect of further street protests. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said it would not accept href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-election-crisis-deepens-as-opposition-rejects-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Victorian MP born in Cambodia says Australia should put pressure on the country of his birth over a crackdown on protesting garment workers which left five people dead. Hong Lim, the Member for Clayton, says he was in Cambodia earlier this month, when five protesting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victorian-mp-hong-lim-urges-australia-to-push-cambodia-over-garment-worker-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On a farm in Kampong Speu province, Erm Rim is talking to a small crowd of consumers and journalists, explaining the process of growing vegetables using only natural resources. Rim talks on the sidelines of a consumer field trip organised by the Cambodian Center for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/organic-vegetable-demand-growing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s small economy leaves it especially vulnerable to devastation in the face of large-scale natural disasters, United Nations agencies and Cambodian officials warned last week. “The relative size of an economy adds to the vulnerability as seen particularly in the case of the Lao Peoples’ Democratic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disasters-present-big-risks-for-small-gdps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in cooperation with a number of organisations launched a new e-waste management project yesterday in Cambodia in a bid to recycle the country’s burgeoning electronic waste and to provide job opportunities, as Hurleypalmerflatt opened an office in Cambodia to provide jobs for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-revolution-equals-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mind-the-wage-gap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 04 July 2017, the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia has released a public announcement on obligations of associations and non-governmental organizations after notifying that some associations and non-governmental organizations haven’t complied correctly with regulations of Article 10 and 25 of “Law on Associations and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/obligations-of-associations-and-non-governmental-organizations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 August 2023, the General Department of Taxation issued a press release on the meeting to summarize the results of tax collection in July and for the first seven months of 2023 and directions for implementation. The meeting was held online via Zoom Meeting.According href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-meeting-to-summarize-the-results-of-tax-revenue-collection-for-july/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)”. This dataset contains data on eight types of protected areas in Cambodia (national park, wildlife sanctuary, protected landscape, multiple uses, natural heritage site, Ramsar site, biosphere reserve, and marine national park) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-a-dataset-on-natural-protected-areas-in-cambodia-1993-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”. This bilingual new dataset exists of all roads performing with Bing Maps imagery between 2020 and 2022, including Maxar and Airbus in Cambodia, and is publicly available to download href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-road-detections-from-microsoft-maps-aerial-imagery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)” by adding new interactive map layers of forest cover in Cambodia from 2015-2021. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-a-dataset-on-forest-cover-in-cambodia-2015-2021/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...