Cambodia – Capability

A Knowledge Sector for the Social and Economic Development in Cambodia. In Conversation with The Asia Foundation’s Heang Sophea

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Cambodia is rapidly progressing towards its goal of becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2030. The Royal Government of Cambodia has identified four main strategic policy areas on which to focus its public policies and achieve this goal: human resource development; economic diversification; private sector development and employment; and sustainable development. The policy decisions in these […]

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Basic education clusters: one way to support education in Cambodia

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I published in Development and Practice an article I have written with Kurt Bredenberg about the possibilities offered by basic school clusters in Cambodia. Here is the title, citation and the abstract. Basic education clusters in Cambodia: looking at the future while learning from the past Development in Practice, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2015,pages 419-432 School clusters

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Knowledge and power in South East Asia

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Knowledge and power in South East Asia East Asia Forum Arnaldo Pellini, Ajoy Datta and harry Jones of RAPID discuss their findings on the use of knowledge in policy-making in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Read more

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Evidence-based policy: a matter of luck?

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Last week I was in Phnom Penh and had a nice chat with Kurt Bredenberg, an expert of education policy in Cambodia and a long time resident in the country. While talking about the school cluster policy the conversation touched upon the Priority Action Program, or PAP. PAP started as a pilot in ten provinces

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Social capital in Cambodia

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I just published this book written in collaboration with Cambodian colleagues at the Learning Institute in Phnom Penh. Here is the title and abstract. Engaging for the Environment. The Contribution of Social Capital to Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Cambodia Development is not a straight input-output-outcome-impact path, but is more random than that. In this

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The self-help tradition in the pagodas of Cambodia

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A common feature of community development projects is to set up new self help groups to run community development initiatives. This approach often disregards the existence of groups and associations that have been traditionally active as the story of the pagoda of Botum tells us. The village of Botum Lech is located in the

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Buddhist Aid

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Arnaldo just published a short article on the role of Buddhist pagodas in dealing with poverty in Cambodia in the development magazine Just Change published in New Zealand. Buddhist aid: Pagodas reducing poverty in Cambodia This article tells the story of the Pagoda Association of Botum, a pagoda that has survived a devastating totalitarian regime

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The Complexity of Decentralisation Reforms

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The Complexity of Decentralisation Reforms (Paperback) by Arnaldo Pellini This book analyses the characteristics of community participation in Cambodian rural schools. It looks at the spaces for participation created by the decentralisation reforms that the government of Cambodia has undertaken in the education sector through two main policies: school clustering and Priority Action Programme. While

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