Cambodia

This country specific policy brief aims at influencing policy on primary prevention at the national level, to encourage replication and upscaling of these successful initiatives.

This country specific policy brief aims at influencing policy on primary prevention at the national level, to encourage replication and upscaling of these successful initiatives.

This manual has been designed for facilitators and adolescents and was developed by international and national consultants to prevent violence against women and children in Cambodia. The development of this manual is based on strategic areas of The National Action Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women (2014–2018) and findings of the United Nations Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, which included research on Cambodia.

This manual, ‘We Are Ready: Supporting Teenagers’ Development in Healthy and Happy Relationships’, has been designed for facilitators and caregivers and was developed by international and national consultants to prevent violence against women and children in Cambodia. The development of this manual is based on strategic areas of The National Action Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women (2014–2018) and findings of the United Nations Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific, which included research on Cambodia.

This endline report sought to conduct a quantitative and qualitative formative evaluation to determine the feasibility, acceptability, accessibility, and promising impacts of the intervention as a proof of concept to practically inform further primary prevention policy and practice in Cambodia. 

This report identifies the key lessons learned from the implementation of the project “Shaping Our Future: Developing Healthy and Happy Relationships” in  in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia from September 2016 to August 2017.

This report identifies the key lessons learned from the implementation of the project “Shaping Our Future: Developing Healthy and Happy Relationships” in  in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia from September 2016 to August 2017. The intervention is designed to prevent violence against women and girls through community sessions with young adolescents and caregivers using an intervention manual that was contextualized and adapted to the Cambodian context. The report was developed by Partners for Prevention in collaboration with UN Volunteers based at UNFPA Cambodia, with inputs from UNFPA Cambod

The Cambodia quantitative report was conducted from March to April 2012. It is a component of a larger report to promote evidence-based violence prevention policies and programmes, in part through the engagement of men and boys, the UN Multi-country Study on Men and Violence (2013). It represents a unique contribution to the country-specific literature in identifying the root causes of VAW in Cambodia, so as to more fully understand how to prevent it.

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV, with support from Partners for Prevention are implementing a VAWG prevention project in ve communes of Kampong Cham, Cambodia. The intervention addresses key risk factors for VAWG as identi ed in the UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence. It works with 300 participants, adolescents (ages 12-14) and their caregivers (e.g. parents/guardians, teachers, youth service providers).

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What can we learn from the 48% of Cambodians who do not support, accept or commit violence against women?  (Ministry of Women's Affairs, 2009). The Navigating the Mainstream research attempted to understand this population by focusing on a purposeful sample of Cambodian women and men who more generally demonstrate positive deviance to so-called Khmer gender norms and, in particular, to gender-based violence.”