Cambodia

Since the beginning of the global pandemic, assessing knowledge and attitudes regarding AIDS has been an important subject of research and for good reasons. Given the unusual features of HIV/AIDS, there is considerable potential for misunderstanding important aspects of the disease that could affect both behaviours related to risk exposure, as well as reactions to those known or believed to have contracted HIV. Most research on knowledge and attitudes has focused on young or prime aged adults. Far less common are systematic assessments of knowledge and attitudes among older persons, especially for developing countries, presumably because they are thought to be at less risk of exposure. In fact, older persons are also at risk of infection even if less so than prime age adults and their numbers will grow as effective treatments increasingly allow those infected at earlier ages to survive to old ages. Still, infected persons aged over 50 constitute a relatively modest share of the total caseload, especially in the developing world (Knodel, Watkins and VanLandingham, 2003).

The population census conducted in Cambodia in March 1998 was the first since 1962. During the 36-year interval, comprehensive population data needed for social and economic planning had been lacking.

This independent country-level evaluation examines the relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP support and its contributions to the country’s development from 2001 to 2009. It suggests UNDP Cambodia to refocus programme activities to the people of Cambodia: UNDP should promote the use of democratic system and local governance structure it has helped to establish, and encourage the participation of people in democratic decision making; it should bring in a sharper poverty focus in its assistance to economic policy making; and it should address environmental concerns through making clear linkages with sustainable livelihood concerns of local population. The finding of the report is a reminder that, as successful as its Cambodia programme has been, UNDP needs to constantly readjust itself to line up with its mandate to help countries accelerate human development and aim for real improvements in people’s lives.

When a country leaves or “graduates from” the least developed countries (LDC) category, it ceases to benefit from international support measures that are exclusive to LDCs (in some cases, these measures are available for a set period after graduation, known as a smooth transition period). This Policy Note provides an overview of the expected impacts of the withdrawal of LDC-specific international support measures in Cambodia, Comoros, Djibouti, Senegal and Zambia. These countries met the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)’s graduation thresholds for the first time in 2021 and, according to the established procedures will be assessed again in 2024, when they may be recommended for graduation.

The first e-Trade Readiness assessment was conducted in Cambodia in November-December 2016. The potential for e-commerce development is significant in Cambodia, promising to diversify the economy, provide new jobs, and increase financial inclusion, as well as contributing to improved lives and livelihoods. Cambodia is in a stage of development in which e-commerce is becoming visible, with an IT-hungry urban middle class that has emerged over the past 10 years, and with 60 per cent of the population below the age of 25. Consumers prefer traditional markets or retail stores and the financial market still relies on cash. The demand for e-commerce is currently limited to products that customers cannot find through regular retail outlets. There is nonetheless a real opportunity in Cambodia for small entrepreneurs buying products overseas to sell them online, mainly through Facebook or Instagram platforms. There is already a potential clientele of some 15,000 consumers for most current e-commerce ventures. E-commerce, however, remains limited compared to other ASEAN countries, and the potential for export development is relatively low. Despite recent progress, Cambodia ranked only 119 out of 137 in the UNCTAD B2C e-commerce index 2016.

Development Credit Agreement-Phnom Penh Power Rehabilitation Project (with schedules and General Conditions Applicable to Development Credit Agreements dated 1 January 1985). Signed at Washington on 11 October 1995

Basic Agreement on cultural, scientific and technical cooperation. Signed at Paris on 10 May 1994

Reply to the United Nations national accounts questionnaire from the National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning. The official estimates are prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (NIS), Ministry of Planning, with technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Exchange of notes between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia providing the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia with heavy construction equipment. Phnom Penh, 15 May 1997

Basic Agreement in the field of rubber. Signed at Phnom Penh on 19 December 1992

Protocol of agreement on technical assistance to the mixed faculty of medicine, pharmacy and odontostomatology. Signed at Phnom Penh on II February 1993

Mémorandum of Understauding on coopération in the field of buildiug aud public works. Signed at Phuom Penh on 17 December 1993

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany concerning the status of seconded cultural experts. Phnom Penh, 14 November 1996

Interim Fund Development Credit Agreement–Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project (with schedules and General Conditions Applicable to Development Credit Agreements dated 1 January 1985). Signed at Washington on 26 March 1997

Agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Royal Government of Cambodia concerning financial cooperation in 2011. Phnom Penh, 9 August 2012