The Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Water Resources in Cambodia: From Local Communities’ Perspectives
This study investigates the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources in Cambodia, focusing on local communities across four agro-ecological zones. Using a mixed-methods approach—including surveys, focus group discussions, and vulnerability assessments—the research identifies site-specific climate hazards such as droughts, floods...
Competency-Based TVET in Cambodia: Promise and Reality
This study examines the development and implementation of competency-based training (CBT) in Cambodia’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector. Introduced to align education with labour market needs, CBT emphasises student-centered, practice-oriented learning and flexible, modular curricula. Despite its potential, CBT impleme...
Characteristics and Issues on Internship at Cambodian Private Firms: A Scoping Study
To address the problems of skills mismatch, skills gaps and low-skilled labour that is hindering Cambodia’s economic development, the RGC issued the 2017 Internship Policy. Part of a larger endeavour to link providers of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to private firms, the project aimed to give TVET students real, workbased...
The Contribution of Vocational Skills Development to Cambodia’s Economy
This study investigates the role of vocational skills development (VSD) in addressing Cambodia’s industrial labour shortages and its broader economic impact. Using firm-level survey data from 101 companies in the garment, food processing, and electronic and electrical assembly sectors, alongside a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, the res...
Understanding Cambodian Deans’ Conceptions and Approaches to University Accountability
University accountability in Cambodia, in both a theoretical and practical context, is ruled by complexity and there is no common understanding of what it means and how it should be assessed. This study examines how accountability in Cambodian universities is oriented towards different accounting constituencies – the government, the market, academ...
Cambodian Academics: Identities and Roles
This qualitative study aims to explore how faculty members at Cambodian universities conceive their academic identities, engage in different types of scholarly roles and perceive the organisation of the academic career system. It offers the following highlights: i). Cambodian academics develop their identities in relation to three forms: disciplina...
Cambodia in the Electronic and Electrical Global Value Chains
This paper maps Cambodia’s participation in Electronic and Electrical (E&E) value chains using trade statistics. It also conducts SWOT analysis based on both qualitative and quantitative data from a E&E firm survey, from which three major conclusions are drawn. This paper argues that E&E production in Cambodia has expanded rapidly with countries in...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Cambodia: The Roles of Academic Institutions
Numerous studies have identified the importance of a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem in stimulating and sustaining innovation and entrepreneurship. Local entrepreneurial ecosystems are made up of both formal and informal institutions, which include legal, economic, institutional, political, social and cultural factors. As well as providing variou...
Gender Analysis of Survey on Cambodia’s Young and Older Generation: Family, Community, Political Knowledge and Attitudes, and Future Expectations
This study presents a gendered analysis of a nationally representative survey of 1,600 Cambodians aged 16–65, conducted across rural and urban areas. It explores how women’s perceptions and participation in socio-political life vary by age, education, residence, employment, mobility, and internet use. The analysis focuses on four themes: family, co...
Cambodia’s Young and Older Generation: Views on Generational Relations and Key Social and Political Issues
Youth make up one-third of the Cambodian population. This generation was born after the Khmer Rouge years and has grown up with the idea of regular competitive elections in a multi-party system. The youth cohort forms an increasingly significant proportion of the national electorate. This report analyses the results from a nationally representative...