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
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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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This Prakas is intended to define roles and responsibilities of relevant competent agencies and establish procedures, operational guides, and forms to implement the Policy on Alternative Care for Children.
This document provides minimum standards and guidelines for service providers who work with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Cambodia.
"In Cambodia, as in other parts of the globe, orphanages are a booming business trading on guilt," writes Ian Birrell in this article for the Guardian that discusses the harms of orphanage tourism.
This report from the Cambodian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation outlines the efforts of the Cambodian government to address the needs of vulnerable people.
This Note provides background and technical information on social protection in Cambodia to inform the development of a national social protection strategy for the poor and vulnerable by the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD).
This brief provides an overview of alternative care in Cambodia, including key achievements, challenges and recommended actions for preventing and regulating residential care, and strengthening family-based care.
Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children (OAC) be moved as quickly as possible to a residential family setting and that institutional care be used as a last resort.
This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights.
This situation analysis focuses on the current conditions that affect children in Cambodia and their capacity to enjoy all their rights as recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This study assesses the development, social integration and post-return reintegration issues facing child victims of trafficking and migration related exploitation in shelters and orphanages in Cambodia.