This country page features an interactive, icon-based data dashboard providing a national-level overview of the status of children’s care and care reform efforts (a “Country Care Snapshot”), along with a list of resources and organizations in the country.
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Key Stakeholders
Add New DataOther Relevant Reforms
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Drivers of Institutionaliziation
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Key Data Sources
Add New DataMapping of residential care facilities in the capital and 24 provinces of the kingdom of Cambodia
National estimation of children in residential care institutions in Cambodia: A modelling study
Prevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates
Shaping the national social protection strategy in Cambodia: Global influence and national ownership
Towards a Social Protection Strategy for the Poor and Vulnerable: Outcomes of the consultation process
Acknowledgements
Data for this country care snapshot was contributed by partners at Family Care First and UNICEF Cambodia.
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Tara Winkler, a former NSW Young Australian of the Year, warns against the dangers of allowing foreign volunteers into orphanages. Ms Winkler says potential abusers are not being vetted among a high volume of visitors to Cambodia's 600 orphanages
In Cambodia's booming orphanage industry, children have become money-making tourist attractions, and it is suspected that sexual abuse is common in residential centres where there are few checks to identify child abusers among foreign volunteers.
This article discusses a new set of standards for orphanages that the Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs plans to begin enforcing. The new standards (known as the sub-decree on the management of residential care centers) are part of an effort to move towards family- and community-based care rather than institutionalization.
This Study is funded by UNICEF and USAID and is conducted in partnership with the Better Care Network.
The Kingdom of Cambodia signed into law on 8 December 2015 the Sub-Decree on the Management of Residential Care.
This article explores how the demand for orphanage tourism, whether from volunteers or holidaymakers visiting or donating, can fuel child trafficking and abuse.
This is an evaluation document that promotes family-based care in Cambodia.
This two-page brief from USAID describes the “Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families” project, a project that is part of 4Children that “focuses on strengthening family care among households at high risk of children separating or where children can be reintegrated after having been placed in residential care.”
The Family Care First Cambodia (FCFC) project funded by USAID aims to ensure that children are cared for in a safe family environment by developing a well-functioning comprehensive care system in Cambodia which ca
The Family Care First Cambodia (FCFC) project funded by USAID aims to ensure that children are cared for in a safe family environment by developing a well-functioning comprehensive care system in Cambodi