The World Bank is assisting Cambodia to increase women’s economic opportunities by investing in better access for them to jobs, land rights, financial services, agricultural inputs, and infrastructure. The World Bank Cambodia monthly newsletter interviewed Her Excellency Ing Kantha Phavi, Minister of Women’s Affairs, about gender issues in Cambodia. Could you brief us on the [...]
Perceptions of gender equality and women’s rights have been changing in Cambodia: increasingly, people believe that men and women are equally important when making decisions, including those on economic development, education, health, and politics. In the country’s growing cities, women tend to be involved in the garment and services industries, while men are mostly involved [...]
I and other students joined a Youth Study Tour on June 19 organized by the World Bank Cambodia to two provinces, Kampong Cham and Kratie. The first program of the tour was to meet the Vihear Loung Sangkat Council in Krong Soung, Kampong Cham province. This is a model sangkat, and I admire its achievements [...]
“A Lively Community Starts With You” is the slogan motivating a youth group in O’Dambang I commune of Battambang province. “I am very interested in this program,” 21-year-old Sim Savan says proudly. “I want to apply it to my community because I want to see it vital and lively.” To get things moving Mr Savan [...]
Meung Sokny, 34, a resident of Village 6, Sangkat Veal Vong, Kampong Cham province, is delighted to talk about her problems to the Commune Research Team (CRT), because she feels she gets a quick response and better service. “Now when we want to have administrative stuff done, it is quicker,” she chuckles. “Our health services [...]
Every month Phrang Seyhou, 25, and her team go from village to village in Banteay Meanchey’s Toeuk Thla Sangkat compiling a list of villagers’ concerns and needs. Then they submit their findings to Sangkat council members. “We randomly select 15 or 20 villagers from each village and ask them for information,” says Ms Seyhou, who [...]
In July 2009, Commune Council Support Project (CCSP) facilitated the establishment of two provincial NGOs Networks to support Decentralization and Deconcentration (D&D) in Pursat and Kampong Cham provinces. The initiative to create the new networks bases primarily on the success and experiences of four existing provincial NGOs networks that CCSP facilitated to establish in 2007, [...]
Agricultural production in a village in Pursat has increased, thanks to a cash-for-work project implemented by Ponleur Kumar (PK). Damnak Thnong village in Bakan district’s Khnar Totoeung commune, has 175 families; 41% of which are categorized as the poorest. The project enables farmers, more than 90% of villagers, to plant rice at least 2-3 times [...]
Thnout Chum sits along National Road 5, about 15km away from Pursat provincial town. In terms of geography, in Thnout Chum commune there are mountains, rivers (Thlear Maorm River) and forest, which covers over two-thirds of the total area of the commune. Thnout Chum is divided into 14 villages, with a total population of 11,550, [...]