Cambodia

We are the world’s largest independent child rights organisation, working in more than 120 countries, and working in Cambodia since 1970. Our programmatic work involves the areas of early childhood care and development, basic education, child rights, child protection, health and nutrition, child poverty, and disaster risk reduction.

The CSP 2022-24 is the result of analyzing evidence, assessing our learning, and consulting with stakeholders about the problems facing children in Cambodia today.

The CSP shows how our skills, resources, partnerships, and expertise will take successful programming to scale, innovate to solve challenges that persist for children and be a voice for child rights in Cambodia.

As a result, 4 strategic goals have been selected, all of which contribute to Save the Children’s global breakthroughs for children – which children survive, learn, and are protected by 2030.

1. Multi-sectoral integrated programming that supports children under 3 to thrive and reach their full potential.

2. Child and gender sensitive, shock responsive social protection for the most vulnerable children and families.

3. Safe, continued and inclusive education for the most marginalized children, adolescents and youth.

4. Children are protected by families, communities and duty bearers from all forms of violence, at home, at school, online and in their community.

Over the last three years (2019-2021), we directly reached 171,210 people, including 116,502 children, and more than 6.7 million indirectly.

In 2021 alone, we reached 140,860 individuals, of which 79,670 were children. We reached more than 2.5 million people indirectly through our campaigns and outreach activities. 

Health and Nutrition: We work with the government and partners to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and child malnutrition by scaling up high-impact interventions, advocating for improved health systems and working on social norms and behavior change.

Food Security & Livelihoods: We work with partners to strengthen resilience and sustainable livelihoods, which includes delivering cash transfers and providing life skills training to young people. We also offer financial services through savings groups and train women and youth on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and production.

Child Protection: We strengthen formal and informal child protection mechanisms to keep children safe from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. We work with parents and caregivers to help them care for their children without violence and we ensure that vulnerable children received the support and protection services they need.

Child rights governance: our interventions, have focused broadly on budget advocacy, international treaty reporting, influencing policies and legislation and supporting the participation of children and young persons in governance matters.

Education: We help young children access early education (both pre-primary and primary), which allows them to develop literacy and numeracy skills through play. We also help out of school children in Dadaab refugee camp access primary education through the Alternative Basic Education centres. We also work with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education to advocate for education reforms, including reforms for education in emergencies.

Adolescents & Youth: We work with adolescents and youth to ensure they realise their rights by giving them a voice and a platform to engage with their leaders.

Humanitarian response: We ensure communities are prepared for disasters, and support emergency relief efforts through the provision of supplies and on-the-ground support.