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Journal articles on the topic "Community development Cambodia"
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Bruckmayr, Philipp. "The Changing Fates of the Cambodian Islamic Manuscript Tradition." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 10, no. 1 (2019): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878464x-01001001.
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AbstractPredominantly Buddhist Cambodia is home to a distinctive Islamic manuscript tradition, introduced into the country by Cham settlers from Champa in present-day Vietnam, and further developed in the Khmer kingdom. Commonly written in Cham script (akhar srak) or in a combination of the latter and Arabic, it has largely fallen into disuse among the majority of Cambodian Muslims since the mid-19th century, as the community increasingly turned towards Islamic scholarship and printed books in jawi (i.e. Arabic-script-based) Malay. Among the side effects of this development was the adoption of jawi also for the Cham language, which has, however, only been employed in a modest number of manuscripts. A minority of akhar srak users and discontents of growing Malay religious and cultural influence, based mainly in central and northwestern Cambodia, have, however, kept the local Islamic manuscript tradition alive. Recognized by the Cambodian state as a distinct Islamic religious community in 1998, this group now known as the Islamic Community of Imam San, has made the physical preservation of, and engagement with, their manuscripts a central pillar of identity and community formation. The present article provides insight into the changing fates of the Islamic manuscript tradition in Cambodia as well as an overview of content, distribution and usage of Islamic manuscripts in the country.
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Thaijongrak, Nathaporn. "The Cross Thai-Cambodian Border’s Commerce Between 1863 -1953 from the View of French’s Documents." European Journal of Economics and Business Studies 9, no. 1 (2017): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejes.v9i1.p63-70.
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The purpose of this research aims to study and collect data with detailed information of the cross Thai-Cambodian border’s commerce in the past from French’s documents and to provide information as a guideline for potential development of Thai-Cambodian Border Trade. The method used in this research is the qualitative research. The research instrument used historical methods by collecting information from primary and secondary sources, then to analysis process. The research discovered the pattern of trade between Cambodia and Siam that started to be affected when borders were established. Since Cambodia was under French’s rule as one of French’s nation, France tried to delimit and demarcate the boundary lines which divided the community that once cohabitated into a community under new nation state. In each area, traditions, rules and laws are different, but people lived along the border continued to bring their goods to exchange for their livings. This habit is still continuing, even the living communities are divided into different countries. For such reason, it was the source of "Border trade” in western concept. The Thai-Cambodian border’s trade during that period under the French protectorate of Cambodia was effected because of the rules and law which illustrated the sovereignty of the land. At the same time, customs have been defined including several details that have affected the traditional trade. The border’s commerce was more sophisticated. The products had transformed according to the needs of the developed world market and social conditions.
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Cooper, H. C., S. Hean, and B. Cordory. "COMMUNITY COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRICS ASSESSMENT WITH SERVICE DEVELOPMENT IN CAMBODIA." Innovation in Aging 1, suppl_1 (2017): 532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igx004.1881.
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Lieng, Sopha, Nobuyuki Yagi, Aimee Mori, and Jay Hastings. "Savings-Group Improvements Contribute to Sustainable Community-Fisheries Management: A Case Study in Cambodia." Sustainability 10, no. 8 (2018): 2905. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10082905.
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Small-scale community fishers dominate fisheries in Cambodia. In the central floodplain of Cambodia, 35% of rural dwellers are part-time fishers and 15% full-time fishers. By 2012, the Cambodian government had abolished all commercial fishing lots and put these resources under the management of community fisheries. One challenge in the implementation of community-fisheries management is budget shortages and resultant livelihood stress. To address this problem, savings groups were established. The Sustainable Communities International program provided establishment and facilitation support for savings groups in 10 community fisheries in the Kampong Chhnang Province. The savings groups were recognized as useful support facilities, meeting the needs of community fishers and sustainable community fisheries operations. However, there were concerns about the sustainability of the savings groups and the fisheries. To date, there are no documented case studies of savings groups for community fisheries. This study was conducted in two community fisheries in the Kampong Chhnang Province. We found that the internal rules of the savings group must reflect the opinions and perceptions of the members to ensure sustainable operation. Education and integrated livelihood activities were important considerations in encouraging participation. These insights are also useful for community fisheries elsewhere.
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Chan, Puthearath. "Child-Friendly Urban Development: Smile Village Community Development Initiative in Phnom Penh." World 2, no. 4 (2021): 505–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world2040031.
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Since urban children’s populations have been rapidly increasing, there is a growing interest in promoting child-friendly cities and communities. UNICEF has accordingly developed a framework for action to build child-friendly cities and communities. This framework outlines the steps to build a governance system committed to realizing the rights of children and translated implementation processes in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Particularly, UNICEF produced a guidebook that outlines building blocks to developing child-friendly cities and communities. This guidebook provides good practices and consolidates common challenges and lessons learned to guide the city governments and relevant stakeholders. Likewise, Cambodia developed a national child-friendly community framework aimed to further improve conducive environments for children where their rights are recognized and supported. Following these international and national trends on child-friendly urban development, many organizations and relevant stakeholders in Cambodia have come together to build urban communities focused on children. Similarly, the Smile Village community in Phnom Penh city was developed. Although its main vision is to build a residential community for underprivileged families to achieve social and financial mobility, various facilities and programs were developed for children. This study explores this community on its child-friendly dimensions and examines whether this urban community is child-friendly based on the national child-friendly community development’s core dimensions.
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Nova, Monika. "Community tourism – Development of rural areas in developing countries." SHS Web of Conferences 92 (2021): 07043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219207043.
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Research background: Community-based tourism has become a very popular form of sustainable tourism in the world. Tourism is supposed to be developmental in nature benefiting the local community by improving the Quality-of-Life and the standard of living for locals and local commerce. It is therefore imperative to understand that the community around tourism development is important and has to be involved in the development from the initial planning of the development as the sole beneficiaries of the development. Purpose of the article: The aim of this work was to evaluate the prerequisites for the development of community-based tourism and Bridging the technology gap for community-based tourism projects in Cambodia. Methods: The theoretical part is focused especially on community-based tourism, its origin, history and possibilities of development. The practical part of the thesis consists of a descriptive part which characterizes the studied area from the point of view of living conditions and tourism, and, also, contains the results of analysis of interviews conducted conditions and tourism, and, also, contains the results of analysis of interviews conducted with the local people and person by the implementer during the stay in the Cambodia were analysed using the Grounded theory method. Findings & Value added: The result of the paper is to set the prerequisites for the development of community-based tourism and recommendations for a subsequent research.
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Hackett, Jacob D., Roxanne F. Hudson, Elizabeth A. West, and Sharan E. Brown. "Cambodian Inclusive Education for Vulnerable Populations: Toward an Ecological Perspective Policy." Journal of International Special Needs Education 19, no. 1 (2016): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.9782/jisne-d-15-00004.1.
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Abstract Cambodia is a dynamic country in transition and its population is committed to improve an economic, social, and educational system (Chandler, 2008). An imperial legacy and traumatic history involving a genocide specifically targeted at Cambodian intellectual elite continue to affect Cambodian schools with the most impact being felt by vulnerable populations including children from poverty and children with disabilities. An ecological framework of childhood development (Bronfenbrenner, 1992) is used to analyze interviews, classroom observations, and student work samples. School directors (3), teachers (3), students (2), and one parent from three public schools in three distinct provinces participated in this study, providing a broad geopolitical range of Cambodia. First, a review of Cambodian education and special education policy as well as international guidelines for inclusive education is provided. Next, a rationalization for including students with disabilities and children from poverty in the larger category of children from vulnerable populations is presented within the Cambodian context. Themes of key factors affecting the educational experience of children from vulnerable populations include: (1) school and community interconnectedness, and (2) Cambodian historical legacies. Perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of Cambodian practitioners are also key factors, and include: (1) Intersectionality of disability and poverty; (2) two distinct purposes of education, and (3) educators value responsive education. This qualitative analysis surfaces key factors affecting the educational experiences of Cambodian children from vulnerable populations by investigating perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes of various Cambodian education professionals and their decision-making concerning these students. Limitations and implications are provided.
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Ellis, S., and L. M. Sheridan. "The legacy of war for community-based tourism development: learnings from Cambodia." Community Development Journal 49, no. 1 (2013): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bst015.
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Bruckmayr, Philipp. "The Cham Muslims of Cambodia." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23, no. 3 (2006): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v23i3.441.
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The Cham Muslims of Cambodia are descendents of Champa, a once-powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdom located in modern-day central and southern Vietnam. Champa existed from the second century CE until its complete annexation by its long-time rival, the Dai Viet, in 1832.1 Its gradual loss of territory caused several waves of immigration to Cambodia between the crucial dates of 1471 and 1835 (the start of violent repression against the Cham in their last, and finally also annexed, principality: Panduranga).2 It seems that the first wave allied itself with Cambodia’s Malay community, with whom the Cham share ethno-linguistic (as both groups are speakers of Austronesian languages) and cultural (e.g., matrilinear customs) heritage, as well as their status as foreign immigrants. Through this contact, they were Islamized. This article presents an overview of the religious and political development of Cambodia’s Cham Muslims, most of whom are Sunnis, from the days of French colonialism up to the present, and shows how this formerly neglected minority became a showcase of Islamic internationalism. Contact persons or interviewees were recommended to me by Dr. Sos Mousine (CMDF, CAMSA, and the Ministry of Agriculture), Set Muhammadsis (CAMSA, CMDF) or Dato Hajji Alwi Muhammad (MAI Terengganu), or were sought out by myself. As I was mainly interested in religious change and the rebuilding of religious infrastructure, I visited many mosques and schools for interviews, which were conducted in English, Arabic, or with a Khmer or Cham translator.
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Bruckmayr, Philipp. "The Cham Muslims of Cambodia." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 3 (2006): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i3.441.
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The Cham Muslims of Cambodia are descendents of Champa, a once-powerful Hindu-Buddhist kingdom located in modern-day central and southern Vietnam. Champa existed from the second century CE until its complete annexation by its long-time rival, the Dai Viet, in 1832.1 Its gradual loss of territory caused several waves of immigration to Cambodia between the crucial dates of 1471 and 1835 (the start of violent repression against the Cham in their last, and finally also annexed, principality: Panduranga).2 It seems that the first wave allied itself with Cambodia’s Malay community, with whom the Cham share ethno-linguistic (as both groups are speakers of Austronesian languages) and cultural (e.g., matrilinear customs) heritage, as well as their status as foreign immigrants. Through this contact, they were Islamized. This article presents an overview of the religious and political development of Cambodia’s Cham Muslims, most of whom are Sunnis, from the days of French colonialism up to the present, and shows how this formerly neglected minority became a showcase of Islamic internationalism. Contact persons or interviewees were recommended to me by Dr. Sos Mousine (CMDF, CAMSA, and the Ministry of Agriculture), Set Muhammadsis (CAMSA, CMDF) or Dato Hajji Alwi Muhammad (MAI Terengganu), or were sought out by myself. As I was mainly interested in religious change and the rebuilding of religious infrastructure, I visited many mosques and schools for interviews, which were conducted in English, Arabic, or with a Khmer or Cham translator.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Community development Cambodia"
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O'Leary, Moira Patricia. "The influence of values on development practice : a study of Cambodian development practitioners in non-government organisations in Cambodia /." Access full text, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20061025.123141/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2006.Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] School of Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 328-351). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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O'Leary, Moira Patricia, and moira mal@gmail com. "The influence of values on development practice: A study of Cambodian development practitioners in non-government organisations in Cambodia." La Trobe University. Social Work and Social Policy, 2006. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20061025.123141.
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Evaluation reports, along with development studies literature suggest that development practice is often failing to enact espoused participatory, empowering and gender equitable approaches or to achieve these espoused goals. Mainstream development theories are underpinned by values and beliefs about what is good and what �ought to be�.
In this study I explore the influence of values on the development practice of Cambodian practitioners working in non-government organisations in rural Cambodia. Development practitioners are the major conduit of community based development assistance, but little is known about how their values impact their day-to-day practice, and influence their moral and political choices.
In the study I used ethnographic methodology, guided by feminist principles. The research was conducted with individuals and groups of experienced, mostly Cambodian development practitioners. Data were collected in four phases through in-depth and semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and observations of practice.
I examine the (in)congruity between practitioners� espoused theories and values and those demonstrated by their practice. The findings reveal that the values are not essentially different but are prioritized differently. The espoused values are consistent with those of the international development discourse, all of which are premised on a belief in human equality. Theories and values inferred from actual practice reflect hierarchical underpinnings. In the Cambodian context this is consistent with socio-cultural values and the hierarchical order of society. However, as expatriate research participants and the literature attest, this incongruence is not particular to Cambodian practitioners.
The study reveals practitioners give higher priority to fulfilling the tasks necessary for the achievement of their NGOs� planned outputs and organisational imperatives than to the facilitation of participatory and empowering processes. At the same time, the enactment of some development values is in tension with certain socio-cultural norms and practices. Practitioners are challenged to make desirable development values explicit and identify how to operationalise them in the lived social, cultural, political and economic context.
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Oum, Sophal. "Development, implementation and evaluation of community-based surveillance system in rural Cambodia." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2002. http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/4646504/.
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A community-based surveillance system was developed and implemented in rural areas in Cambodia. The system aimed to provide timely and representative information on major health problems and life events that would permit rapid and effective control of outbreaks and communicable diseases in general in rural communities. In the system, lay people were trained as Village Health Volunteers to report suspected outbreaks, important infectious diseases, and vital events occurring in their communities to local health staff who analysed the data and gave feedback to the volunteers during their monthly meetings. An evaluation conducted one year after implementation of the community-based surveillance system began found that the system was able to detect outbreaks early, regularly monitor communicable disease trends, and to continuously provide updated information on pregnancies, births and deaths in the rural areas. The sensitivity and specificity of case reporting by Village Health Volunteers were found to be quite high. In addition, the community-based surveillance system triggered effective responses from both health staff and Village Health Volunteers in outbreak and disease control and prevention. The results suggest that a community-based surveillance system can successfully fill the gaps of the current health facility-based disease surveillance system in the rapid detection of outbreaks, in the effective monitoring of communicable diseases, and in the notification of vital events in rural Cambodia. Empowered local people and health staff can accurately report, analyse and act upon significant health problems in their community within a surveillance system they develop, own and operate. The community-based surveillance system could easily be integrated with the current disease surveillance system. Its replication or adaptation for use in other rural areas in Cambodia and in other developing countries would be likely feasible and beneficial, as well as cost-effective.
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Rasmussen, Karen Jeanne. "Rice banks, solidarity, and community : an ethnographic study of micro credit programs in Cambodia /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p1405199.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Whittingham, Emma Wynne. "Sites of practice : negotiating sustainability and livelihoods in rural Cambodia." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/107420.
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In literature and popular discourse sustainable development debates have a habit of polarizing around conflicting understandings. On the one hand sustainable development is interpreted as an extension of dominant neoliberal agendas, on the other it is constructed as an alternative to the mainstream. This thesis works through these positions, to argue for an understanding of sustainable development in the spaces between; where hegemony and counterhegemony slip and slide, collide, disrupt and confuse. It is a thesis about the entanglements of sustainable development policy; a study in which I contend that sustainable development is best understood through the multiple sites of practice where policy is enacted. Drawing upon notions of messiness and bringing together actor-orientated sociology and livelihoods approaches, I explore sustainable development as it is negotiated through networks of actors and livelihoods in rural Cambodia. Specifically, I present a study of two projects implementing community fisheries as an instrument of sustainable development policy in two remote provinces of Cambodia. It is a study about the different actors responsible for implementing each project, as well as the life worlds of rural villagers affected by them. Through an in-depth analysis grounded in the diverse realities of people in particular places, I uncover the struggles through which sustainable development is negotiated. I expose a policy interpreted through multiple, overlapping simplifications and assumptions and uncover how these are simultaneously produced, recirculated, contested and transformed in practice. Significantly, I highlight the destabalising consequences of a policy which attempts to legislate away diversity or difference. Thus, I reveal the possibility of alternative realities finding expression through spaces otherwise characterised by domination.
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Ellis, Sotear. "Community based tourism in Cambodia : exploring the role of community for successful implementation in least developed countries." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/451.
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Sustainable tourism has been identified as a potential tool for development in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Specifically, at the community level, Community Based Tourism (CBT) has emerged as an effective model to promote the development of sustainable tourism which produces meaningful benefits for all sectors of the community while protecting the longevity of the tourist product, and encouraging environmental and cultural conservation. The practical implementation of sustainable tourism in LDCs via CBT models faces many challenges. The source of these challenges is the complex stakeholder environment in which the theoretical and practical elements of CBT exist. Stakeholders have influenced the theoretical understanding of CBT through the multitude of definitions further hindered by the variations in terminology that abound within the theoretical literature. Internal stakeholders further complicate the implementation of CBT in communities, through misinterpretation and their different agendas. The potential negative outcomes of these external stakeholder influences include the persistence of poor quality theoretical models and inadequate information sources for practitioners. Internal influences can result in increasing power imbalances within the community, and the establishment of conflicting goals for CBT. Cambodia presents a unique opportunity to explore CBT as the model utilised to implement sustainable tourism for development in an LDC. Cambodia, identified as an LDC in 2001, has focused on the use of tourism to stimulate development, with recent attention being given to the opportunities for CBT. The aim of this research gives consideration to developing informed best practice for the implementation of CBT in LDC communities by finding a means to minimise these potential negative outcomes. To do so, the case studies of two rural communities in Cambodia utilising CBT to stimulate community development have been explored –Banteay Chhmar, Banteay Meanchey Province, and Banlung, Ratanakiri Province. The research was conducted in two phases, consisting of semi-structured and structured interviews with members of the community directly participating in tourism, the tourism committee, and non-participants in tourism. A total of 67 residents participated in both phases of the research. The key findings of this research.The key findings of this research show a strong positive perception of tourism by both communities which is supported by the perception of a range of positive economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts which dominate any minor perceived negative impacts. The research revealed the importance of the role of perception in the successful implementation of CBT. In particular, the research revealed that the perception of self,perception of community, and perception of the tourism committee have a considerable effect on the development of community support for tourism, which enhances meaningful participation for effective implementation of CBT. This alludes to social capital as an idea which can benefit the theoretical understanding of CBT, and therefore, inform practice. This research informs the practical implementation of CBT by highlighting the importance of open communication as a facilitator of education and awareness of CBT, which supports tolerance and support of CBT during and after implementation. Also highlighted was the importance of community pride, collaboration and commitment to community activities, represented as community cohesion. This cohesion is essential for the implementation of CBT in the LDC context, as it serves to mitigate some of the challenges encountered in disadvantaged communities. Finally, the foundations for a considered approach for the establishment of effective CBT committees are established. In addition to the assumption that CBT committees ensure community control of tourism and fund development goals, there is also a need to focus on the continued support of community cohesion as being essential for the continued success of CBT in the long term. From this exploration of two sites in Cambodia, this research makes meaningful theoretical contributions regarding the foundations of understanding how to implement CBT effectively in the Cambodian LDC context. The practical solutions identified will facilitate this implementation process, and can potentially be extrapolated to other similar LDC settings, and into general community development scenarios.
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Kang, Lina. "Exploring social design in a development context : the case of a handcraft pottery community in Cambodia." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2018. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/18a7c74a-8c26-46c6-9e04-f6928aaa971f.
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This thesis argues for an alternative methodology in social design to counter existing approaches to development work. It is based on a field study conducted in a handcraft pottery community in Cambodia over twenty months. From a cross-disciplinary perspective that combines design culture, development studies and sociology, the thesis discusses the ways in which an innovative approach to social design can be developed, practised and analysed. The thesis, informed by the actor-network theory (ANT), unfolds the problematic situation by revealing that in-kind donations and external support has caused a sense of dependency within the local community. To move away from the system of technocracy and diffidence and towards creative knowledge generation and ongoing participation, the Social Design Thinking Workshops (SDTWs), as part of the field study, were conducted with ten Khmer potters. Action research, participant observation, semistructured interviews and visual ethnography were employed to understand the situation, create designs for ceramic production, expand the knowledge beyond technicality and reflect on the overall process of the SDTWs. A mutual relationship and productive participation became possible by establishing an ontological and epistemological stance that treated the people as research participants with indigenous insights and capabilities. As a result, this thesis suggests three key implications for this social design thinking approach in the Cambodian context. Firstly, by exploring the relationship between actors surrounding the situation, researchers would be able to problematise and engage with social issues from an unconventional perspective. Social design not only transcends its dominant association with social responsibility, but it also becomes able to catalyse and rearrange the social configuration within the situation. Secondly, by unlocking and eliciting the tacit knowledge of the participants, the community would be better equipped for an increased economic competitiveness and independence. Finally, by practising a programmatic, iterative approach to social design, rather than seeing it as a straightforward problem-solving project, the outcomes and impact of the practice can continuously be tested, reflected, adapted and evolved. In this process, social designers are expected to act as a facilitator, educator and imaginative storyteller that can catalyse the social interactions within the problematic situation. While designerly approaches are increasingly employed in a development context, relatively few studies have been conducted on these types of practices. Overall, this thesis offers an innovative approach to social design that can be useful for researchers and practitioners in the development context.
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Rath, Chhang, Naret Heng, Chanrith Ngin, and Prachvuthy Men. "Community Saving and Economic Empowerment: A Case Study of the Village Development Bank (VDB) Model in Ta Yaek commune, Soutr Nikum district, Siem Reap province, Cambodia." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19237.
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Liev, Man Hau. "Adaptation of Cambodians in New Zealand : achievement, cultural identity and community development /." e-Thesis University of Auckland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3362.
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This thesis has two foci: how Cambodians with a refugee background manage their new life in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and how an identity as a Khmer Kiwi transnational community has developed. Analytic concepts— such as forced migration, cultural bereavement, adaptation, integration, diaspora, transnationalism, identification, and community of practice— are used to trace the trajectory of the contemporary way of life of Cambodians, their community development, and their cultural identity. The data gathered from mixedmethod research reveal the various opinions, strategies, coping mechanisms, and paths that Cambodian participants have adopted in order to adapt to life in New Zealand and still maintain their Khmer heritage. The majority of participants were proud of their personal achievements, and now have found normalcy in their new life. Individual struggles to engage and integrate with multicultural New Zealand society have required negotiation and protection of group interests, and inevitably some of these have resulted in conflicts and fragmentation within the Khmer community. Religious practice, organisation, and leadership became the main driving forces for asserting Khmer community identity. Collective memory was harnessed to deal with shared cultural bereavement, and the quest for belonging lent momentum to the community’s development and management of its identity. Khmer Theravada Buddhism has emerged as a means by which the majority of Cambodians can achieve their spiritual wellbeing, and has become a platform for various community identity developments within the New Zealand social and legal contexts. Gender roles and structures are a significant part of community development and of my analysis. This development of Khmer identity in New Zealand is a new strand of Khmer identity: Khmer heritage, transnational experience, and ‘Kiwi-ism’. Such transformation of identity reflects geo-political influences on integration in the form of belonging to and identifying with two or more groups. For example, the majority of participants proudly identified themselves as Khmer Kiwis. Their transnational lives have been enriched by their country of origin (Cambodia) and their country of residence (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Key words: Cambodian refugees, forced migration, adaptation, integration, transnationalism, Buddhism, Khmer identity, community development, and community of practice.
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Spiller, Sarah. "Now we are successful and developed! Improvement and impasse in two cambodian community development interventions." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109357.
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This research explores whether community development interventions led by non-government organisations in rural Cambodia produce their intended opportunities for empowerment, or reproduce the powerlessness that is characteristic of poverty. I engage this question by examining how participants perceive, negotiate and use the knowledge that community intervention delivers, the village organisations that intervention creates, and the labour that participation entails. These dynamics are explored in an ethnographic study of two community interventions implemented by Cambodian non-government organisations in different rural settings, one in the country's southeast and the other in the northeast. I argue that despite the multiple failings of international development intervention in Cambodia, positive impacts do emerge. Participants in community development incorporate interventions into their daily lives in unexpected ways, turning them to ends that are relevant to the task of improving life. This process is uncertain, contested and vulnerable, but nonetheless provides evidence to support Kabeer's (1999, 2011) argument that participation can be conceptualised as empowering, because it can challenge existing conditions, and can enhance participants' ability to realise fundamental choices and aspirations, particularly by women. However, this research also demonstrates that empowerment is limited by persistent inequalities within communities, between people and the state, and between communities and implementing agencies, as well as by the unpredictable impacts of Cambodia's regional and international integration. In substantiating this claim, the thesis explores how knowledge is delivered and used in two rural settings (Chapter Five), how village organisations created by non-government organisations relate to existing community reciprocities, inequalities and governance structures (Chapter Six), and how gendered participation is negotiated within households, focusing on microcredit (Chapter Seven). Chapter Eight considers the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-8 in southeastern Cambodia, and proposed Mekong dams in the northeast, drawing attention to the threats to empowerment that prevail in these two rural contexts.
Books on the topic "Community development Cambodia"
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Yūgī, Teṅ. The UNICEF/Community Action for Social Development experience: Learning from rural development programmes in Cambodia. Cambodia Development Resource Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Development, 1999.
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Z, Brown Frederick, and Timberman David G, eds. Cambodia and the international community: The quest for peace, development, and democracy. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1998.
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World Heritage Angkor and beyond: Circumstances and implications of UNESCO listings in Cambodia. Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2011.
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Rao, Janardhan. Savings, solidarity, and self-help: Padek's experiences in working with self-help groups in Cambodia. s.n., 1998.
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Tang, Shirley Suet-ling. Community development as public health, public health as community development: A report of the needs assessment on HIV/AIDS among Cambodian Americans in Lowell, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Asian AIDS Prevention Project, 2001.
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Creative Capacity Development: Learning to Adapt in Development Practice. Kumarian Press, 2011.
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Cooperation Committee for Cambodia., ed. Directory of libraries and resource centers for the development community in Cambodia. Cooperation Committee for Cambodia, 2004.
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Brown, Frederick Z., and David G. Timberman. Cambodia and the International Community: The Quest for Peace, Development, and Democracy. Asia Society, 1998.
Book chapters on the topic "Community development Cambodia"
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Müller, Sabine, Jitka Markova, and Sindhuri Ponnapureddy. "Community-based ecotourism development and destination governance in Cambodia." In Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429264191-12.
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Sophal, Chan. "Inclusive Development and Chinese Direct: Investments in Cambodia." In Cambodia-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Towards a Community with a Shared Future. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9155-4_15.
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Fujishige, Hiromi Nagata, Yuji Uesugi, and Tomoaki Honda. "Cambodia: Japan’s First UNPKO Contribution." In Japan’s Peacekeeping at a Crossroads. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88509-0_5.
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AbstractParticipation in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia from 1992 to 1993 was the landmark case in the history of Japan’s peacekeeping policy as the first military contribution based on the Peacekeeping Operations (PKO) Act, established in June 1992. However, lingering hostility in the field seriously troubled the deployment because it generated various problems, such as a serious gap between official policy and actual situation on the ground. The contradictions led to the shocking loss of two Japanese personnel on duty. Harsh reality of Cambodia generated the Self-Defense Forces’ (SDF’s) informal adaptation of “robustness”—that is, de facto patrols—in the absence of formal legal authority. These bitter experiences sowed the seeds of the Government of Japan (GoJ) eventual pursuit of “robustness” 23 years later by the second Abe administration as part of the 2015 Peace and Security Legislation. The experience in Cambodia also led to the development of “integration” in Japan’s peacekeeping efforts, especially in terms of direct Japan Engineering Groups (JEG) support to local community through civil construction works. The local people appreciated both the JEG’s skills and their friendly attitude. This was a successful experience not only for the JEG, but also for the GoJ, which was laying the foundation for Japan’s pursuit of greater “integration.”
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Pawson, Simon, Scott Richardson, and Paul D’Arcy. "Temples, Tuk-Tuks and Orphanages: A Contemporary Examination of Tourism Development, Management and Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia." In Managing Asian Destinations. Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8426-3_8.
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Sakkhamduang, Jeeranuch, Mari Arimitsu, and Machito Mihara. "Multi-stakeholder Approach to Conserving Agricultural Biodiversity and Enhancing Food Security and Community Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kampong Cham, Cambodia." In Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS). Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9893-4_11.
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AbstractAgricultural biodiversity plays a vital role in enhancing food security and human health. Sustainable agriculture practices that conserve soil and water can result in good environmental and human health. In view of this, a project on capacity-building for sustainable agricultural practices targeting extension officers was implemented between September 2017 and February 2021 in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, by the Institute of Environmental Rehabilitation and Conservation (ERECON), Japan. The project involved government agencies, educational institutes, NGOs, and farmers, and employed a multi-stakeholder approach to promote sustainable farming practices among local farmers and enable conditions for the sale of agricultural products with low chemical inputs, especially in a province where agrochemical application is prevalent. A questionnaire survey, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and observations from farmers were used for programme monitoring. Farmers reported that soil quality was improved after applying compost, and more beneficial insects were found after integrated pest management techniques were applied. The amount of agrochemicals applied to farmlands decreased compared to usage before the project start, implying that the project was successful in promoting sustainable agriculture in the province. During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities in the project areas are struggling to cope with food and health insecurity. The intervention has helped communities become more resilient during this hard time. After 3 years, many of the approximate 1500 farmers involved in the project are applying organic fertilisers and enhancing agricultural biodiversity in their farmlands. This case is a grassroots-level activity, but the concept of multi-stakeholder activities for agricultural biodiversity conservation can be replicated in other areas of Cambodia for achieving the sustainable development goals.
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Nieto, Miguel Ángel Pérez, Nieves Segovia Bonet, Ignacio Sell Trujillo, and Carlota Tovar Pérez. "Community Building in Times of Pandemic: University Camilo José Cela, Spain." In Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82159-3_17.
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AbstractUniversity Camilo José Cela (UCJC) is a private university located in Madrid (Spain) that belongs to the SEK Education Group, an institution with 125 years of tradition and a strong innovation identity. This case study presents the response that UCJC has given to facilitate the adaptation of the educational community (students, families, and teachers) to the situation arising from the pandemic caused by COVID-19. It will explain the coordination actions between students from the School of Education at UCJC and the impact derived from their interventions. Specifically, it will detail students’ participation as teacher assistants in online teaching within the IB pedagogical model to respond to the demands of primary and secondary teachers. This collaboration is the most outstanding due to the number of students and schools involved and the efficacy and efficiency of its implementation.On the other hand, there were other interventions of a smaller scale but a high social impact committed to disadvantaged sectors of the population. For example, our students’ support gave refugee students from Syria reinforcing their training or the psycho-emotional, educational, and legal assistance that volunteers from the bachelor’s degree of law provided to children and families in social exclusion. It is also significant to highlight the UCJC international actions: the teacher training program, EachTeach, provided educational methodologies, resources, and media to refugee teachers at the Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya), helping them to raise awareness about COVID-19, and the Cambodian program dedicated to training volunteers on how to combat the pandemic on these vulnerable contexts, where children live on the streets.Finally, to define broader collaborations and scale these initiatives in the future, this case study will reflect on the reasons for the success achieved, especially in training and pedagogical innovation and in the use of educational technology. The UCJC and SEK Schools collaboration allowed the use of a common technological language, sharing values. The development of training, support, and advice, between the university community (professors and faculty students) and the schools’ community (teachers, students, and families), enabled a wide range of relevant issues to be addressed in dealing with COVID-19 by schools and the broader education community.
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Nieto, Miguel Ángel Pérez, Nieves Segovia Bonet, Ignacio Sell Trujillo, and Carlota Tovar Pérez. "Community Building in Times of Pandemic: University Camilo José Cela, Spain." In Knowledge Studies in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82159-3_17.
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AbstractUniversity Camilo José Cela (UCJC) is a private university located in Madrid (Spain) that belongs to the SEK Education Group, an institution with 125 years of tradition and a strong innovation identity. This case study presents the response that UCJC has given to facilitate the adaptation of the educational community (students, families, and teachers) to the situation arising from the pandemic caused by COVID-19. It will explain the coordination actions between students from the School of Education at UCJC and the impact derived from their interventions. Specifically, it will detail students’ participation as teacher assistants in online teaching within the IB pedagogical model to respond to the demands of primary and secondary teachers. This collaboration is the most outstanding due to the number of students and schools involved and the efficacy and efficiency of its implementation.On the other hand, there were other interventions of a smaller scale but a high social impact committed to disadvantaged sectors of the population. For example, our students’ support gave refugee students from Syria reinforcing their training or the psycho-emotional, educational, and legal assistance that volunteers from the bachelor’s degree of law provided to children and families in social exclusion. It is also significant to highlight the UCJC international actions: the teacher training program, EachTeach, provided educational methodologies, resources, and media to refugee teachers at the Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya), helping them to raise awareness about COVID-19, and the Cambodian program dedicated to training volunteers on how to combat the pandemic on these vulnerable contexts, where children live on the streets.Finally, to define broader collaborations and scale these initiatives in the future, this case study will reflect on the reasons for the success achieved, especially in training and pedagogical innovation and in the use of educational technology. The UCJC and SEK Schools collaboration allowed the use of a common technological language, sharing values. The development of training, support, and advice, between the university community (professors and faculty students) and the schools’ community (teachers, students, and families), enabled a wide range of relevant issues to be addressed in dealing with COVID-19 by schools and the broader education community.
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Pawson, Simon, Paul D’Arcy, and Scott Richardson. "The value of community-based tourism in Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia." In Tourism Planning and Development. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315083742-5.
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Matthews, Brett. "Literacy and internal control of community finance institutions in Cambodia." In Routledge Studies in Development Economics. Routledge, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203934074.ch8.
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Hutchinson, Kelly. "Cambodian Youth Making Connections." In Global Information Technologies. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch246.
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This article explores how urban Cambodian youth are creating connections and exploring the opportunities that new technology offers for their social and community development within the Khmer diaspora. It contends that these young Cambodians are using ICT to define and express themselves as both individuals and members of a distinct new cohort. This study was conducted from July-September 2002 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as part of the Master of Arts in Communications at RMIT University. A comparison of qualitative and quantitative data allowed this study to develop a rounded profile of young Cambodians’ (aged 18-24) ICT usage habits. ICT are defined as mobile phones, SMS, the Internet, the World Wide Web and Chat. This article contends that this uptake of ICT highlights the emergence of an urban elite, a digital elite whose use of ICT is helping to define the new generation and secondly facilitate connections that build community within the Khmer diaspora.
Conference papers on the topic "Community development Cambodia"
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Cerro, Camilo. "Float: Designing for the Rise in Sea Level." In 2019 ACSA Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.43.
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According to the United Nations, presently, about 54% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, with the number expected to increase to 66% by 2050. Urban areas which are ill prepared to deal with their present population needs will have to develop and manage; housing, healthcare, education, transportation, infrastructure and food pro-duction for an additional 2.5 billion people. With three-quarters of the world’s megalopolis by the sea and 80% of people living within 60 miles of the coast, sea level rise will force a new way of thinking about urban development. Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of the 21st century. In the UAE specifically, there are nearly 1,300 kilometers of coast-line. Approximately 85% of the population and over 90% of the infra-structure are located within several meters of sea level in low-lying coastal areas. This poses a very specific urban problem of relocation. But not all relocation will need to be done inland. The potential for floating architecture is a very real possibility to help solve some of the problems brought on by the rise in sea level. This is why at the American University of Sharjah, we have been studying this issue and other sustainability related opportunities in a series of courses that started in 2014 with a summer studio course set in Cambodia. Students lived with a floating community in the Tong le Sap lake for a month, studying vernacular floatation systems to inform the development of proposals for floating dwelling studies. This semester (Spring 2018), a fifth year architecture studio set up to transfer specific urban functions to the water within protected areas in the UAE. The aim of the studio was to start looking at possible implementation of floating systems within everyday functions to start a discussion of the potential of this technologies and the feasibility of its use at both an industrial and commercial level. The idea was to develop a series systemic interdependent sustainable designs based on the idea of third nature, hybridizing complex relationships between distinct functions in environments above and below water. This paper will cover the methodology implemented to start tackling these subjects in the studio environment with the aim to create awareness for designers and the general public.
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Bhat, Raj Nath. "Language, Culture and History: Towards Building a Khmer Narrative." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-2.
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Genetic and geological studies reveal that following the melting of snows 22,000 years ago, the post Ice-age Sundaland peoples’ migrations as well as other peoples’ migrations spread the ancestors of the two distinct ethnic groups Austronesian and Austroasiatic to various East and South–East Asian countries. Some of the Austroasiatic groups must have migrated to Northeast India at a later date, and whose descendants are today’s Munda-speaking people of Northeast, East and Southcentral India. Language is the store-house of one’s ancestral knowledge, the community’s history, its skills, customs, rituals and rites, attire and cuisine, sports and games, pleasantries and sorrows, terrain and geography, climate and seasons, family and neighbourhoods, greetings and address-forms and so on. Language loss leads to loss of social identity and cultural knowledge, loss of ecological knowledge, and much more. Linguistic hegemony marginalizes and subdues the mother-tongues of the peripheral groups of a society, thereby the community’s narratives, histories, skills etc. are erased from their memories, and fabricated narratives are created to replace them. Each social-group has its own norms of extending respect to a hearer, and a stranger. Similarly there are social rules of expressing grief, condoling, consoling, mourning and so on. The emergence of nation-states after the 2nd World War has made it imperative for every social group to build an authentic, indigenous narrative with intellectual rigour to sustain itself politically and ideologically and progress forward peacefully. The present essay will attempt to introduce variants of linguistic-anthropology practiced in the West, and their genesis and importance for the Asian speech communities. An attempt shall be made to outline a Khymer narrative with inputs from Khymer History, Art and Architecture, Agriculture and Language, for the scholars to take into account, for putting Cambodia on the path to peace, progress and development.