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6th China-built hydropower dam in Cambodia starts operation
After more than 4 years of construction, Tatay (River) hydropower plant's one of the three generators begun operation with a capacity of 82 megawatts. The plant in Koh Kong prov...
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Lower Sesan II hydropower project
The Lower Sesan 2 (LS2) hydropower project has installed capacity of 400MW, with a height of 75 meters and length of 6 kilometers. It will be implemented in Sesan district, Stu...
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Chinese-built Lower Stung Russei Chrum
Chinese-built Russei Chrum River Hydropower dam with a capacity of 338MW has begun operation after nearly five years of construction.The construction is agreed under the 35 year...
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Development of energy sector in Cambodia
The presentation slides draw a general picture of Cambodia's energy sector and its development plan. Sources of the energy come from hydropower, coal, natural gas, crude oil and...
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Protecting Land Rights in Ratanakiri, Cambodia
Ratanakiri is divided into 9 districts covering 240 villages and approximately 100,000 people. Of these, 65% are minority hill tribes comprising groups such as the Jarai, Tamp...
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Lessons learnt of communal land titling for indigenous community in La In village Ratanakiri province, Northeast Cambodia
Documentation on lessons learnt was done in order to enhance the knowledge of indigenous people and other stakeholders so they would understand the process of land titling for i...
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Remark on Indigenous ethnic minority communal land rights: policy and achievements
In order to temporarily protect the land use rights of the indigenous ethnic minority communities, the General Secretariat of the Council for Land Policy and the MLMUPC shall wo...
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The failure of land dispute resolution mechanisms
This brief considers the current state and practice of dispute resolution mechanisms in Cambodia, which have been formed to address land disputes and conflicts. The first sectio...
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Resources, rights and cooperation a sourcebook on property rights and collective action for sustainable development
This first CAPRi sourcebook is a fitting commemoration of the 15th anniversary of CAPRi. Unique among other training materials, it is based directly on the experiences and lesso...
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Cambodian peasant's contribution to rural development: a perspective from Kampong Thom Province
The paper aims to identify the rationality of peasant communities and their contribution to rural development in Kampong Thom province. To do so, the authors explore the dynamic...
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Cambodia’s special economic zones
This study examines the role of special economic zones (SEZs) in Cambodia, and finds that the SEZs have attracted significant levels of foreign investment that would not have be...
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Stolen land and stolen future : a report of land grabbing in Cambodia
The focus of this report is land grabbing in Cambodia. it is based on APRODEV Agencies experience from many years of development work. The report documents how affected commu...
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Phnom Penh's history of displacement: Evicted communities from 1990 to 2014
Since 1990, over 29,700 Cambodian families have been evicted or displaced from their homes in Phnom Penh. This document provides a list of evicted communities, collating informa...
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The Phnom Penh survey: A study on urban poor settlements in Phnom Penh
The report of a 2013 survey conducted to update previous research on urban poor settlements in the Phnom Penh and produce current maps of their locations. This report summarises...
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What shall we do without our land? land grabs and resistance in rural Cambodia
Abstract: "Political dynamics of the global land grab are exemplified in Cambodia, where at least 27 forced evictions took place in 2009, affecting 23,000 people. Evictions of t...
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Rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways: Comparison of field data
This report compares independently-gathered household data from four communities located along railroad tracks in Phnom Penh to data gathered by the Inter-Ministerial Resettleme...
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Growing pains: Urbanisation and informal settlements in Cambodia's secondary cities
This report takes a snapshot look at how urbanisation is impacting three of Cambodia's secondary cities – Sihanoukville, Battambang, and Siem Reap – and, in particular, their ur...
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Eviction and resettlement in Cambodia: human costs, impacts and solutions
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) has undertaken the present study to measure the human and socio-economic costs and impacts of evictio...
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The compensation policies and market property price LS2 dam development project: Sesan District, Stung Treng
This research reviews laws and policies and estimates just and fair compensation for the communities affected by the Lower Sesan 2 dam (LSS2). The research comprised desk resear...
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Comments received from the Government of Cambodia on the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi
Royal Government of Cambodia's comments and response to the Special Rapporteur's report on the human rights situation in Cambodia. Distributed 17 September 2014.