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Asset Hand-over Event for “Accelerating COVID-19 Recovery for Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups in Cambodia through Providing Assets for Poverty Reduction and Resilience (ACRP)” Project

The Accelerating COVID-19 Recovery for Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups project will equip IDPoor households with the necessary assets to increase their income…

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Retaining Women in Cambodia’s Workforce After LDC Graduation

UNDP Cambodia has been actively supporting gender-responsive policies through initiatives that improve women’s access to finance (The Women Guarantee Scheme of…

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"The Development of a Transformative NDC3.0: Goal Setting and Strengthening the Inclusive Approach” Workshop

The NDCs update is a process of continuous improvement. For this purpose, UNDP and partners developed several tools and resources globally to facilitate the…

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Consultation Workshop: “Cambodia’s LDC Graduation: Policy Mapping and Sectoral Impact Assessment “

UNDP remains committed to supporting Cambodia throughout this transition, working closely with national and international partners to accelerate human…

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Stories
Digital unlocks markets and business expansion

The USD 5,000 award from the UNDP Innovation Challenge for Business Digitalization and E-commerce Acceleration came at the right time. Encouraged by the…

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“Improvement of the Disposal Capacity of Plastic Litter in Urban Provinces” Project Signing

Over the last 4 years, UNDP, with support from like-minded development partners, such as the Government of Japan, has promoted an integrated approach to support…

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Press Releases
Joint Press Release: “Improvement of the Disposal Capacity of Plastic Litter in Urban Provinces” Project Launching

Phnom Penh, 27 February—The Ministry of Environment, the Embassy of Japan, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched the project “Improvement…

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Indigenous Community Leading the Fight Against Climate Change

The Indigenous communities in Cambodia face significant challenges in protecting their forests due to illegal logging, deforestation for agriculture, and land…

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Prosthetic Limbs Bring New Hope to Life

Since 2006, the Clearing for Results Project supported the clearance and release of over 384 square kilometers of contaminated land for safe use and local…

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26th Anniversary of National Mine Awareness Day

Since 2006, the Clearing for Results project has released 384 square kilometres of safe land, amounting to over 12% of the sector's achievement. It benefitted…

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Stakeholder Workshop on National Mine Action Policy 2026-2035

The development of the National Mine Action Policy is an important strategic process that brings us all, the mine action stakeholders together to discuss…

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Handover of ICT Equipment for the IDPoor Programme

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNDP has collaborated extensively with key national institutions involved in social protection, notably the Ministry of…

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What we do

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP in Cambodia works in partnership with the Royal Government of Cambodia, non-government organizations, civil society organizations, community-based organizations, multilateral aid agencies, bilateral donors and private firms. The overarching aim of UNDP is to support the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Retaining Women in Cambodia’s Workforce After LDC Graduation

The anticipated change associated with the transition from the LDC status, namely structural transformations, the loss of trade preferences, and changing labor market dynamics, will affect the most vulnerable social groups.

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Publication
UNDP Cambodia Gender Equality Strategy (2025 – 2029)

The UNDP Gender Equality Strategy goes “beyond piecemeal efforts towards portfolio approaches that shift power structures and the economic, social, and political systems that perpetuate discrimination.”

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Report on Youth Engagement in Cambodia’s Nationally Determined Contribution

UNDP has conducted an assessment of youth engagement in Cambodia’s NDC presented in this report and proposed a roadmap for a more youth-responsive and inclusive NDC 3.0.

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Open Up the World for Deaf People in Cambodia

UNDP is committed to the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, including the deaf, in line with the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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Smiling woman in a rustic room with a chicken and discarded prosthetic limbs.
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Prosthetic Limbs Bring New Hope to Life

Since 2006, the Clearing for Results Project supported the clearance and release of over 384 square kilometers of contaminated land for safe use and local development and provided physiotherapy services and prosthetics to 15,379 landmine survivors, including 804 women.

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Publications

Country Programme Document for Cambodia (2024-2028)

The country programme is aligned with key national priorities and policies, particularly Vision 2050, Pentagonal Strategy Phase 1, 2024-2028, and the new United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). In designing the programme, the country office undertook a series of analytical exercises including futures analysis and strategic foresight in consultations with government counterparts, civil society, the private sector, United Nations organizations, youth representatives, and international development partners.

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16

Millions

Population (2019)

17.8

%

Poverty rate (2019)

2,345

USD

GDP per capita (2022)

0.600

HDI

Human Dev. Index (2022)

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