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In this two-part video, Sorn Sokchea discusses the medical social work program run by Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia, that aims to prevent and respond to child abandonment with the goal of strengthening families to provide adequate care for their children.
In part one, Sokchea shares insights from the social work unit’s key learning around what leads to abandonment, how to work with families to identify and solve underlying issues, how to engage and communicate with families and how to identify risk indicators for abandonment.
In part two, Sokchea shares insights on how to…
Comprised of 12 videos and accompanying discussion guides, this video series features the learning from practitioners working across a range of care-related programs and practices in Cambodia. Topics discussed include abandonment prevention in hospitals, supporting children with disabilities in family-based care, and the impact of the care setting on child rehabilitation outcomes.
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This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.
There has been significant progress in Cambodia’s education system. Student enrolment in the public-school system has increased rapidly across all education levels. In recent years, primary education enrolments have reached near gender parity. These improvements are in large part a result of strong commitment from the Royal…
This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.
There has been significant progress in Cambodia’s education system. Student enrolment in the public-school system has increased rapidly across all education levels. In recent years, primary education enrolments have reached near gender parity. These improvements are in large part a result of strong commitment from the Royal…
The study, “Child Protection and Education Needs for the Children and Adolescents of Phnom Penh’s Urban Poor Communities,” examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education. It also seeks to identify bottlenecks and enabling factors that facilitate or constrain their access to quality education. Existing services or gaps in services related to child protection and education needs as well as capacity of the government and CSOs in providing…
The study, “Child Protection and Education Needs for the Children and Adolescents of Phnom Penh’s Urban Poor Communities,” examines child protection risks faced by preschool age children (3-5 years old) and adolescents (10-14 years old) and determines the interconnectivity between such risks and education. It also seeks to identify bottlenecks and enabling factors that facilitate or constrain their access to quality education. Existing services or gaps in services related to child protection and education needs as well as capacity of the government and CSOs in providing…
The goal of this Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and to protect the basic rights of all children especially children who are in need of special care and protection or at-risk children, to fully develop in a family environment in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding. This Prakas is intended to define roles and responsibilities of relevant competent agencies and establish procedures, operational guides, and forms to implement the Policy on Alternative Care for Children, aiming to uphold the best interests of the child as the paramount consideration, recognizing…
A 2011 UNICEF report revealed that amongst the 12,000 children in Cambodia’s orphanages, almost three quarters of them have one living parent. The number of children in care has more than doubled in five years despite the National Policy on Alternative Care for Children adopted by the Kingdom of Cambodia in 2006 which “aims to ensure that children grow up in a family and in a community environment that promotes the principle that institutional care should be a last resort and a temporary solution for children”.
In Cambodia’s northwest province of Battambang, the number of orphanages…
Cambodia counts an estimated 670,000 orphans. Many of these children do not have primary caregivers and are in need of alternative care. They are abandoned, live and/or work in the streets, are affected by HIV/AIDS, are victims of exploitation or trafficking, detained in prison; hence in need of special protection. In Cambodia, children without primary caregivers were traditionally placed in the care of relatives, neighbors or in pagodas and presently, an estimated 11,400 children live in institutional residential care facilities throughout the country.
Inter-country adoption of Cambodian…
The world’s governments have promised to provide improved protection to children in difficult circumstances and tackle the root causes leading to such circumstances. Failure to act – to back up the good intention with practical measures that bring about a safer world for children – really does not honour the world’s promise to the child, nor the promise and potential of the child. In ten years, will the Secretary General of the United Nations again need to say to the children of the world, “We have failed you”?
Children at Risk is a follow-up to World Vision’s earlier…