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Global Entrepreneurship Week Cambodia 2021
We have a task at hand to turn the crisis into opportunity, to lay the building blocks during the Covid-19 recovery phase for an inclusive, green and resilient future. To realize the country’s 2030…
National Reflection Workshop on the Implementation of the OD-IDPoor System
It has been nearly 18 months since Cambodia successfully rolled out its national cash transfer programme. With our partners, namely the Government of Australia, we provided equipment, software, and…
National Consultation on Promoting Fair and Ethical Recruitment Between Cambodia-Thailand Labour Migration Corridor
International labour mobility is a defining feature of the global economy, with growing numbers of job seekers looking beyond local and national boundaries for employment and livelihood opportunities.
Renewable Energy to Enhance Economic Benefits
With economic growth, Cambodia has been on an upward trend in electricity demand, which further increased in 2020 during the pandemic by 6%. This raises a red alert knowing that the country has…
Virtual Launch: Innovation Challenge on Business Digitalisation and E-Commerce Acceleration
UNDP Cambodia is supporting the vision of the Royal Government of Cambodia on promoting MSMEs growth with a focus on business digitalization and e-commerce and engaging the private sector in…
Second Stakeholder Consultation in Cambodia for the project, Mapping Nature for People and Planet
Cambodia has made gigantic strides towards economic growth, which entailed some environmental and biodiversity costs. If we learned one thing from the pandemic, it is the wake-up call on the…
Launching of Clean Energy Week 2021
UNDP is walking the talk! As some of you may know, UNDP offices are partly powered by solar energy, and we’re looking into the option to extend the excess to our neighborhood. We have renewed our…
Leveraging UNDP Country Office Support in Cambodia to Raise Resources and Strengthen Tax Revenue Collection
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to over 85,000 cases and more than 1,683 deaths in Cambodia. It has also taken a significant toll on Cambodia’s population and economy with economic growth turning…
Launch of Policy Brief: 2021 COVID-19 Economic and Social Impact Assessment in Cambodia
As many of us know, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) rapidly rolled out cash transfers to around 700,000 households since the start of the pandemic. This level of social protection was much…
UNDP Launches 2021 COVID-19 Economic and Social Impact Assessment in Cambodia
The brief is based on an analysis using the integrated modelling framework used previously in the 2020 assessment. It consists of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using actual economic…
