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 ...
Communal land
Though There are mulTiple forms of communal properTy, The righTs associaTed wiTh indigenous communal properTy are subjecT To significanT legal and socio-economic issues. Indigenous communiTies are culTurally very differenT from The resT of Cambodia, and The law provides Them wiTh The opporTuniTy To obTain collecTive ...
Law and Judiciary
National Assembly of Cambodia. Photo by Sorn Seang Heng, taken on 12 June 2010. Licensed under CC-BY 2.0.With a constitution written a little more than 20 years ago, the current rule of law in Cambodia is relatively new, and continues to be shaped by many ...
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 ...
Climate change
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 ...
Energy
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 ...
Gravel and limestone
Raw gravel, photo by touch and see, taken on March 26, 2014. Licensed under: CC BY-SA 2.0Since 2010, Cambodia has seen increasing production of cement, crushed stone, sand and gravel in response to the country’s booming construction sector. Approved investment in the construction industry in ...
SDG 5 Gender equality
The SusTainable DevelopmenT Goal 5 (SDG 5) is iniTiaTed To “achieve gender equaliTy and empower all women and girls”. The global SDG 5 consisTs of 9 TargeTs (3 TargeTs as means of implemenTaTion) and 14 indicaTors. The objecTives of SDG 5 are expressed in Terms ...
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, ...
Land tenure and land titling
Land registration and titling of private property has been ongoing for more than a decade. As the Cambodian government works to formally register all private property, there is a dual system of soft possessory rights to be replaced by hard ownership rights through nationally-recognized title. ...
SDG 18 Cambodia mine/ERW free
Cambodia has added an 18th goal to its localized version of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – “End the negative impact of mines/ERW and promote victim assistance”.347 the SDGs were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as a universal call to action ...
Mining
The mining secTor in Cambodia is mosTly undeveloped, and acTive mining enTerprises are Typically small-scale quarries producing maTerials for consTrucTion, such as laTeriTe, marble, graniTe, limesTone, gravel and sand. There is no indusTrial-scale exTracTion of minerals, alThough many exploraTion licenses have been granTed To ...
Labor
Garment workers waiting in line to get food. Photo by International Labour Organisation, taken on 14 July 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia has the highest labor force participation rate in the Southeast Asia/Pacific region, with 82.7 percent of the working population aged 16-64 employed ...
Decentralization and deconcentration
Decentralization and deconcentration are seen as “internally driven” reforms509, where the national government gradually delegates power, involving either administration or finance, to local governments to administer in their locality.27-year-old Sun Sovath supports his family by raising chickens, in Kampong thom, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank Photo ...
Rivers and lakes
Tonle Sap lake reflecTions. PhoTo from Mariusz Kluzniak. Uploaded on 1 January 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0DespiTe severe droughTs sTriking The counTry frequenTly, Cambodia possesses subsTanTial waTer resources, mosTly conTained in The Mekong River and The Tonle Sap greaT lake and river. The lake ...
Investment policy and regulations
Cambodia’s economy has experienced an impressive performance, reflected in its rapid economic growth and significant poverty reduction. Part of this is the result of the relative openness of Cambodia towards foreign investors. Domestic investment has also been growing, although at a lower rate than other ...
Overview of policy and legal framework
Environmental protection and conservation are given high priority in the Royal Government of Cambodia’s guiding strategy, the Rectangular Strategy Phase III (2014–2018). ...
Constitution and rights
The ConsTiTuTion of The Kingdom of Cambodia was officially promulgaTed by Royal Kram on 24 SepTember 1993. Image designed by Open DevelopmenT Cambodia (ODC), 10 SepTember 2021. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.The 1993 ConsTiTuTion of The Kingdom of Cambodia is The supreme law of The ...
Biodiversity
Biodiversity or Biological Resources: Various organisms in the same or different species and living organisms of all levels and sources, including land, marine and freshwater ecosystems, and the ecological relationships in which these ecosystems exist.671 Biodiversity is essential for most of the resources used by ...
Infrastructure
A national road in Cambodia. Photo by Pat Scullion, taken on 2 April 2010 under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Infrastructure describes the built assets that allow a country to function, such as roads, railways, ports, airports, communication systems, electricity and drinking water distribution networks. the Ministry of ...
