Data literacy training for social accountability
From 10 to 13 May 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted a four-day data literacy training focused on local members of the press at the Polou Wai hotel, focused on the topic of Data Literacy for social Accountability. It was the first press-specific data literacy ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministries and other national bodies
Nearly all of the ministries were established in 1995. A few ministries were only recently created in the post-2013 national election by a separation of one ministry into two. There are 28 government ministries and secretariats, and many national bodies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
A collaborative training workshop for citizen journalists on ‘News report writing on public service delivery’
Open Development Cambodia in collaboration with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) hosted a two-day training workshop in siem Reap. On 28 February and 1 March, 16 citizen journalists from across the country learned to write stories covering public services in their communities. ODC ss='cambodia-color'>...
Contact
contact@opendevcam.net www.fb.com/OpenDevCam @opendevcam (855) 23 902 196 #23B, st 606, sangkat Boeng Kak Ti Pir, Khan Tuol Kouk, Phnom Penh, Cambodia #mc_embed_signup{width:500px;background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } #mc_embed_signup input { margin:0 0 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Legal aid
Under Cambodia’s Constitution, all Khmer citizens have equal status before the law, regardless of wealth or station.1 This promotes a political principle called the rule of law,2 an ideal that all members of a society, both the people and the state, are held equally accountable ss='cambodia-color'>...
Health care policy and administration
A quality and effective healthcare system that provides equal access to services is critical to ensure the well-being of any population. Both developed and developing countries strive to bring improvements to their healthcare systems. Cambodia, in particular, has undergone significant transformations in terms of healthcare ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ground water
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
GIS workshop: fundamentals of QGIS
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information system (GIs) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIs of the three workshops each of which takes three days. This workshop series aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIs platform ss='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia
Introductory animation training
Open Development Cambodia is increasing its development of video outreach material, such as the presentation of local sangkat budget information for the Innovations in social Accountability in Cambodia (IsAC) Project. Videos document ODC’s ongoing work and serve to promote upcoming events and activities.These are done ss='cambodia-color'>...
ODC 2022 annual staff reflection workshop
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is once again excited to organize the Annual staff Reflection Workshop 2022 in Preah sihanouk province from 09 – 11 December 2022. surprisingly, the 9th sea Festival was held on the same date under the theme “Bay of Peace, Bay of ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang protection
Prey lang protection East West Management Institute (EWMI) worked alongside communities since 2007. They began resourcing activities and forest community members across the forest. They supported the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for several years.supporting Forests and Biodiversity (sFB) in Cambodia (November 2012 to November 2016) ss='cambodia-color'>...
On-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction
Nineteen onshore blocks have been delineated for possible oil exploration. Contracts have been awarded for three. No oil is currently extracted in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fisheries production
Local workers loading fresh catch to be transported to the city market at Chhnoc Trou pier, Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia. Photo by sylyvann Borei/World Fish, taken on 7 April 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia has abundant and productive fisheries. Fish is a traditional staple in the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...
SDG 2 Zero hunger
SuStainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) SeekS to “end hunger, achieve food Security and improved nutrition and promote SuStainable agriculture”, enSuring univerSal acceSS to Safe, nutritiouS and Sufficient food for everyone at all timeS. LikewiSe, it provideS a much more comprehenSive approach to the iSSue SS='cambodia-color'>...
City poised for shopping mall boom
After spending $30 on clothes, Chan Pheavy sat down for lunch in the food court of sorya Mall, plunking her shopping bags on the floor beside her. “It is very comfortable to do shopping here,” Pheavy, 25, who works for a commercial bank in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-poised-shopping-mall-boom
NEC Admits 270,000 Names Were Duplicated on Voter List
Just two months after the contested national election, commune officials across the country on Tuesday began the annual 20-day process of registering voters, while the National Election Committee (NEC) announced that 270,000 duplicated names would be removed from the voter list used in July. NEC secretary-General ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/nec-admits-270000-names-were-duplicated-on-voter-list-44151/
Government to Spend $13.7M on Appeal Courts
The government will spend a total of $13.7 million in the next three years to build new appeal courts outside of Phnom Penh along with free accommodation for judges and prosecutors across the country, according to the draft budget law for 2014, which is scheduled ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-spend-13-7m-on-appeal-courts-46853/
Poor Education Could Cripple Business Growth
Low-quality education is jeopardizing business growth in Cambodia, and local graduates will not be employable in skilled jobs if the government does not quickly implement educational reforms, business executives warned Thursday at the Cambodian Market Intel 2013 seminar in Phnom Penh. During an hourlong panel discussion ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-listed-as-nsa-collection-point-48188/
Floods a Yearly Trial for Those Living Along Mekong
TBONG KHUM DISTRICT, Kompong Cham province &ndaSh; From November to May, the Mekong River iS quiet. So iS life for the hundredS of thouSandS of people who live along itS bankS, which in Cambodia formS a 155,000 Square km baSin covering Six provinceS and Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/floods-a-yearly-trial-for-those-living-along-mekong-44143/
Home for the holidays
Still agitated 20 minuteS after the rally in front of SL Garment ProceSSing (Cambodia) Ltd had diSperSed yeSterday, Choem Som Im held up Seven fingerS aS She jerked her armS forward and Spoke in an equally Sharp tone. The dilemma, faced by many garment workerS, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/home-holidays