Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. the fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as ...

Cambodia relies heavily on its groundwater resources to overcome water shortages during the dry season. More than half of the population depends on it when enough surface water is not available. At a certain depth, the ground is saturated with water, and the upper surface ...

Although there is currently no commercial-scale production of gold carried out in Cambodia, exploration by many companies is underway, with some promising find reported. Subject to government approval, commercial production could begin in 2016 or 2017. Gold is found in a number of ...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) collaborated with the Special Education Department (SED) of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) to organize a launching workshop on “Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous Languages for Primary School Students” under the project “Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous ...

Artisanal mining is small-scale mining that typically involves individuals, family groups or small communities, often working with limited technology. the mining may be seasonal, fitted around other work such as farming. there is a large overlap between this type of activity and gemstone mining. Artisanal ...

“We want Cambodia to be a high-income country by 2050,” PM Hun Sen affirmed the ambitious prospect of Cambodia’s economy at the 2018 Cambodia Outlook Conference which Open Development Cambodia attended. the conference took place on thursday, 15 March 2018 at the Hotel Sofitel Phnom ...

TogeTher, fighTing climaTe change. PhoTo by 350.org, Taken on 12 OcTober 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Clean DevelopmenT MechanismThe Clean DevelopmenT Mechanism (CDM), defined in ArTicle 12 of The KyoTo ProTocol, allows a counTry wiTh an emission-reducTion or emission-limiTaTion commiTmenT under The KyoTo ProTocol To ...

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 ...

Agriculture has been considered as the backbone of the national economy. Of the total population, 76% were living in rural areas and agriculture provided 31.2% of total employment and contributed 20.7% to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019.78 However, the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 ...

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.128 Cambodia has the lowest score of all ...

Non-renewable energy sources are chiefly fossil fuels such as coal, diesel, oil and gas. They provide mosT of Cambodia’s locally-produced elecTrical supply – in 2011 diesel and heavy fuel oil generaTors provided 89% of local elecTriciTy generaTion. ...

Voice from Cambodia–Time is running ouT. PhoTo by Oxfam InTernaTional, Taken on 21 OcTober 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.ClimaTe change is The long-Term change in The sTaTisTical disTribuTion of weaTher paTTerns. While The climaTe of The earTh has always gone Through periods of change, modern scienTific evidence ...

UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a continuing problem. In Southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. As it is a developing country, ...

Cambodia has undergone rapid economic development in recent decades, with GDP per capita tripled between 1999 and 2013. However, mainly due to three decades of war and political turmoil which severely damaged the country’s infrastructure, the country still lacks the means required for energy sector ...

The fundamenTal GIS Training was successfully conducTed aT ODC office, Phnom Penh, from 03 To 05 February 2020. A number of civil socieTy organizaTions have been inviTed To join This Three-day Training. Those organizaTions include Build CommuniTy Voice (BCV), People CenTer for DevelopmenT and Peace ...

Following a long tradition, the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team had the chance to go on the off-site Annual Staff Retreat and Reflection between the 20th and the 23rd of January 2021. the team spent four days at Chi-Phat Ecotourism Community and tatai Paradise Eco ...

In Cambodia, data-driven storytelling is almost non-existent and still a very new concept to most journalists, media branches, newsrooms and CSOs. In the newsrooms, data journalism is rarely produced due to limited data literacy.the project aimed to train people in data-driven storytelling. While there is ...

In September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. this contained 17 items that have become known as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), intended to drive action in critically important areas to the year 2030. these goals have ...

Election ballots, Cambodia. Photo by Daniel Littlewood, taken on April 20, 2004. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0History of Cambodia’s electionsCambodia saw consecutive civil wars for more than 20 years after the coup in 1970. In 1991, parties in the conflict reached agreement to end the ...

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 ...