Cambodia is one of 161 countries that are party to the Mine Ban Treaty. The parties redoubled their efforts in 2014 and committed to free the world of mines by the year 2025.

In Cambodia, the change-makers of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs are commencing a new and innovative program with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida). We are bringing back our feminist roots to activate civil servants and partners to achieve some tangible results. We have not only buried the toxic and ineffective ‘business-as-usual’ approach for gender equality, but we have also learnt from it about what we must do better.

Sao Theang steers his boat through the waters in and around the mangrove forest of Preynub, close to Sihanouk Ville on the Cambodian coast. It’s beautiful scenery and Theang tells us he hopes tourist numbers will start to pick up. As the Head of Chumpu Khmao Community Fishery, he and his community already make a good living from shrimp, fish, mussels and other plentiful aquaculture...

Join us at the 2017 Regional Knowledge Exchange to learn how countries across the region are working to understand and leverage the interlinkages among goals and targets. How institutional coordination mechanisms facilitate coherence across sectors and between tiers of government. How one can move from short- and medium- term planning to planning for the future. How budgets can be aligned and financing flows directed to achieve the Agenda 2030.

Together, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Impact Hub are excited to announce the international finalists of the Accelerate2030 initiative. Accelerate2030 is a cross-border scaling program for positive social and environmental impact launched by Impact Hub Geneva in 2016 with UNDP as the founding partner. The mission of Accelerate2030 is to scale the impact of ventures that contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to help them develop sustainable corporate culture in line with their values...

Cassava farming was never for rich farmers. But at least last year the average price for fresh root at farm was 3.5 cents a kilo. There was hope it would get back into profit at 4.4 cents. It’s now down to 2.6 cents. So why do famers bother? Part of the answer is the famers are in fact seasonal migrant workers, either inside the country or to the neighboring countries such as Thailand. They leave the cassava in the ground for around 10 months to fetch what price it gets when they come home. Unlike rice, it doesn’t take much care during its growing period and cultivation...

UNDP and the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Plc signed a Memorandum of Understanding. It serves as the very first agreement under the new United Nations Social Impact Fund on the establishment of partnerships between UNDP and social impact investors in the country to ensure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030…

My name is Athika, a 22-year-old university student and a journalist. My dream is to see people living in peace, happiness and hope. Even though I come from a poor family, as a youth I persist in seeking peace for my society. By participating in different fields of social work, I try to show other young people that we have the capacity and potential to achieve peace...

In a country such as Cambodia, it is a day that provides an opportunity to pause and reflect on the impact of migrant labour, and how this very 21st century phenomenon is transforming the lives of so many people...

We have a pretty good idea of what’s good for us to eat – even if we can’t always resist temptation. But what’s good for the planet? How do our food choices affect the world around us?

Entitled “10 Solutions to Help Meet the SDGs,” the report describes large-scale projects in ten countries in the region – Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste – that have demonstrably accelerated progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...

Family remains the main safety net, in both economic and spiritual terms, for young people, but it is up to the government and other stakeholders to ensure inequalities and risks in all forms are mitigated to allow young people to grow, to keep learning skills, to explore opportunities and, most important of all, to earn respect and dignity from their work. After all, Cambodia’s and its youth’s dreams are symbiotic: to become better off before growing old...

To expand the scope for public action, UNDP will focus assistance on public institutions for poverty reduction and resilience and on strengthening voice and participation. The focus will be on upgrading value chains, financing development sustainably, building resilience and fostering participation. An important tool will be fostering partnerships in the context of transition.

Our future financing, like in India, China, Malaysia and elsewhere, will gradually move to domestic financing, and away from aid, so it’s even more important that we ensure we can provide the policy support that the Government demands...