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Cambodia
Overview
Whilst there has been some improvement in Cambodia’s overall economic situation in recent years, thirty-six per cent of the population still live below the poverty line.
The poverty rate is much higher in rural areas than in the cities as the rural poor account for approximately ninety percent of the poor. Some of the factors that characterise the poor include low income and consumption, poor nutritional status, low levels of education, less access to public services including schools and health services and less access to economic opportunities. HIV/AIDS remains a serious concern as the prevalence rate continues to be high.
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has worked in partnership with government agencies, local NGOs and trade unions, addressing these issues in order to develop opportunities for the unemployed, poor farmers, and workers, to gain the education and skills needed to improve low living standards. Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has supported programs in technical/vocational teacher training, agricultural and aquaculture technical training, employment and agricultural skills training, environmental awareness, labour rights training, and HIV/AIDS & reproductive health. These programs have been delivered in 7 provinces and Phnom Penh.
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA maintains an office in Cambodia staffed by one Australian part time volunteer and 7 part time Cambodian staff.
Strategy
Cambodia’s economic situation has improved in recent years. Relative political stability since the final Khmer Rouge defections in 1998 has provided an environment more conducive to economic development. Despite this economic improvement however, 36% of Cambodians still live on less than 50 cents a day, and many more are not far above that ‘poverty line’.
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History
Project History
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has worked in Cambodia since 1985, contributing to the reconstruction and development of a country devastated since the early 1970s by 3 decades of conflict including the Khmer Rouge....
Sustainable Livelihood Training 2002-2006
On 30 June 2006, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA’s Sustainable Livelihood Training project in 7 Provinces and Phnom Penh, was completed. The project was funded by AusAID, three Australian unions and individual donors....
Labour Rights Training for Women Workers in the Garment Industry
Between 1998 and 2000, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA developed and ran a series of trade union training courses for 1,000 garment workers, mainly young rural women who had migrated to Phnom Penh, with 4 Cambodian union federations. ...
Projects
Small Scale Fish Hatchery Project - Battambang Women in Development Centre
Thmar Kul district, Battambang Province
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has been working in aquaculture in Cambodia since 1991....
Cambodia 2006 - 2007 Donor Report
Skills Training for Women & Rural Communities in 7 provinces in Cambodia
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has been assisting projects in Cambodia since 1985, initially concentrating on rebuilding basic health infrastructure, rebuilding the technical/vocational education system, and the agricultural system in one province....
Latest Cambodia News
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) report - 09 February 2007
Credibility of Cambodian justice system compromised by the holding of two innocents in prison....
Cambodia: Trade unionists released but concerns remain - 03 February 2006
Brussels, 3 February 2006 (ICFTU OnLine) Numerous trade unionists, sympathisers, journalists and diplomats posted in the Cambodian capital paid tribute to the triumphant return to Phnom Penh on 1 February of Chea Mony, president of the Cambodian trade union centre FTUWKC, following several months of exile, first in Ireland then in France. His decision to return came with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s announcement that the charges against him had been lifted, along with those brought against several trade union leaders and human rights activists who had been in detention since October 2005....
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