Does Location Matter? Track and Trace (TnT) Adoption by Primary School Directors in Cambodia
Cambodia’s textbook supply chain experienced challenges with shortages, late deliveries, and inaccurate forecasting, impacting student learning. Track and Trace (TnT), a digital solution that streamlines the supply chain, was introduced in 2022. However, TnT was not implemented equally across schools. Therefore, this paper aims to (1) investigate...
Digital Transformation in Textbooks Supply Chain in Cambodia
Cambodian primary schools often encounter challenges in sourcing textbooks. Inefficient manual processes were used before the introduction of Track and Trace (TnT) in 2022, a digital solution that aimed to streamline the textbook supply chain. This research aims to (1) explore the motivations behind the development of TnT and (2) understand the...
20 Years of FDI in Cambodia: Towards Upper Middle-Income Status and Beyond
Although Cambodia has a strong ambition to become an upper middle-income nation by 2030 and a high income by 2050, it faces various challenges in achieving these goals. This study investigates Cambodia’s progress and potential in this regard by analysing its position and trajectory relative to Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows...
Barriers to Nutritious Food Production and Consumption: Insights from Two Case Studies
Cambodia has made notable paces in reducing poverty and advancing human development. However, a significant portion of the population remains susceptible to poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, and various shocks. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, coupled with the global food and fuel crisis and recent climate-related events, has exacerbate...
Enhancing Rural Resilience for Climate-Induced Migration Responses
Key MessagesMigrants were mainly young adults, with men doing high-risk jobs like construction and women doing less risky jobs such as factory work. Migrant households’ livelihoods are affected by unpredictable weather conditions, reduced water availability, and extreme events like heatwaves, droughts and floods, which lowered crop yields and fish...
Climate‑related Loss and Damage in Contexts of Agrarian Change: Differentiated Sense of Loss from Extreme Weather Events in Northeast Cambodia
The uneven burden of climate-related losses and damages and its implications for equity and social justice are receiving growing attention in science and policy. Smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and ethnic minorities are often identifed as particularly vulnerable and likely to experience a greater burden of climate-related loss and damag...
Expertise and Immigrant Status: A Bourdieuisan Analysis of How Citizen-led Aid Organisations Provide Health Care Transnationally
The transnational mobility of people, information, and resources is critical to the success of nonprofit international development projects. Ensuring effective transnational flows arguably takes on greater salience for grassroots international nongovernmental organisations (GINGOs), as these organisations and their leaders are unlikely to have a fu...
Closing the Information Divide: Addressing the Information Needs for Persons with Disabilities in Cambodia
Key Highlights In Cambodia, one in four people over five years old are estimated to have some form of disability. This group tends to be older, female, and residing in rural areas. The most common types of disabilities include difficulties in seeing, remembering, and walking/climbing. Education and work opportunities are limited, especially for wom...
Negotiating Family and Personal Aspirations: Four Young Cambodian Women Reflecting on Choosing a Major
Despite recent declines in university enrolment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, the number of university students has continued to grow in Cambodia. In fact, in its recent Education 2030 Roadmap, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) estimates that there will be twice as many students enrolled in higher education in 203...
International Journal of Training and Development-The emergence of training programmes for the garment industry: Analysing the cases of Bangladesh, Ca...
This study analyses industry‐specific training programmes catering to the garment industry in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Employing a historical‐institutionalist perspective and using mainly qualitative data, it focuses on programmes that are considered particularly relevant by the industry and discuss their characteristics as well as f...