NONG Monin

Research Fellow

Mr. Nong Monin holds a Master’s in International Development from Nagoya University, Japan, and a Master’s in Development Studies from the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is involved in various research projects relating to climate change adaptation, vulnerability and adaptation assessment, water management, gender and social environmental impact assessment, gender and climate change policy assessment and hydropower dam development. He takes a lead in developing research proposals, designing research framework, developing survey questionnaires for primary data collection (using Kobo toolbox), and data analysis using Nvivo, Stata, and GIS. He also supervises fieldwork activities, research surveys and data collection, and writes up research reports. Furthermore, he coordinates Centre’s operations, liaises with research partners and counterparts, and organises study tours and regional, national and provincial dissemination workshops and conferences. Planning the annual work plan and budget is part of his regular work.

Email : monin@cdri.org.kh


NONG Monin


Policy Briefs 2

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...

International Publications

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...

Research Reports

Migration forces rural people to find more and better jobs, which is key in generating incomes to sustain livelihoods and ensure food security in times of environmental change. In addition to agricultural production, climate change affects health, water, and energy resources and causes migration and conflict. The impacts of climate change on me...

Working Papers 142

Water is central for a variety of livelihoods, development, economic growth, and food production. It is also very important in the large deltas of South and Southeast Asia. Yet, water is turning into a scare resource and global climate change is making its availability more unpredictable. Commercial interests and infrastructure development are also...

International Publications

The escalating climate change-related disasters around the world are a serious threat to human existence and human livelihoods. Rural people living in developing countries, especially those of the poorest, are believed to be particularly vulnerable to climate change. As the number of climate change programs designed to help the poorer households ha...

Policy Briefs 7

To address the vulnerability to floods of five Mekong islands in Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum provinces, the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) implemented the Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR) – The Five-Year Mekong River Island Connectivity Project (2016–2020) in Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum provinces. This program involved the c...

Research Reports

The purpose of this assessment report on gender equality and climate change is to analyse the gendered impacts of climate change and to raise awareness about the benefits of, and need for gender-responsive climate action. The study has two main objectives: i) to strengthen country-driven processes by presenting more evidence of the links betwe...

Working Papers 125
NONG Monin   (2021)

In 2019, 61 percent of the population living in rural areas, 76 percent of whom rely on agriculture as the main source of income and livelihood, sustainable rural and agricultural development is paramount to the Cambodian economy. National Strategic Development Plan 2019–2023 forms the basis of the national approach for strengthening the agri...

Cambodia Development Review 24 - 2

This article draws on a qualitative study conducted to assess the impact of climate change programs in Cambodia, including the MRD’s pilot program in Kampong Svay district (CDRI, MRD and UNDP 2019). It summarises the main lessons learned and discusses the main factors hindering poor and vulnerable program beneficiaries from replicating demonstr...


Cambodia’s susceptibility to climate change is heightened by its limited ability to adapt. Women experience more pronounced consequences from climate change than men. As Cambodia strives to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 amidst mounting climate uncertainties, it becomes crucial to examine the effects of this transition on women’s livelihoods and...


Links between climate change and migration in Cambodia need to be empirically substantiated. It is known that climate change poses a threat to agricultural production and impacts men and women in different ways in terms of a shift in employment, access to resources and assets, social norms and gender stereotypes, socioeconomic opportunities, and ad...


PAGE is a joint initiative of the ILO, UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and UNITAR. It was launched in 2013 to support countries in building economies that are environmentally sustainable. The initiative leads and assists partnering countries in their transition to an inclusive green economy. Cambodia is one of PAGE's partnering countries. With financial support...


In Cambodia, the source of fuel for households from liquefied petroleum gas (LGP) accounts for 56 per cent of urban settlements and 11 percent of rural residents, and it ranks second after firewood and charcoal. The source of electricity used by households countrywide is quite small at only about 3 per cent. The demand for LPG consumption is predic...


The Asian Mega Deltas (AMD) program is one of the new OneCG initiatives that commenced in April 2022 and will run till at least 31 December 2024 (Phase 1). The One CG involves closer working modalities amongst the numerous CG Centers to provide more coordinated and integrated support to governments and civil society in pursuing more productive, div...


CDRI research team works together with national universities, governmental institutions and NGO/CSOs in both Cambodia and Lao PDR to develop a research proposal applying for EXPLORE Research grant on forest landscape governance.​ The proposed research title is “Co-adaptive forest management through climate-smart technology and communal social capit...


Under technical and financial support of UNEP and UNWOMEN, the assessment report is “a tool” to raise awareness about the benefits, advantages and need for gender-responsive climate action, analyse gendered impacts of climate change, and suggest ways to enhance and mainstream gender equality into climate-relevant sectoral policies. Besides, th...


Under Sida’s fund, the study aims to provide policy inputs into the current gender equality and climate change responses. To strengthen women’s adaptive capacity and encourage them to actively participate in decision-making processes into the process of climate change intervention, the study analyses the root causes of gender-based vulnerabili...


Working to support Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), CNRE contributes to developing a comprehensive report on the status of climate change in the ASEAN region, which provides an overall outlook on the state of play of climate change in the context of the ASEAN region and can support ASEAN member state (AMS) and join the pro...


This proposed project will run for two years from June 2019 to May 2021. The study will be conducted by a research consortium comprised of institutions from Cambodia, China, Laos (PDR), Thailand, Vietnam, which all of these countries are Lancang-Mekong country members. Following are the research questions developed to tackle the objectives of t...