This report describes the outcomes of the joint DCOF/UNICEF visit to Cambodia to assess a three-year, DCOF-funded project on Strengthening Systems to Protect Vulnerable Children and Families in Cambodia.
This report discusses a number of topics, such as the continuing focus on formal child protection systems, issues related to the reliance on residential care and its negative impact on young children, and issues faced by older care leavers. It questions the need for a very complex electronic database on residential care, briefly discusses social work training, expresses some concerns on the continuing reliance on external funding for supporting the child protection system, describes some observations on the work carried out with communes, and discusses the role of UNICEF HQ in relation to the project.
