Cambodia IRAM Network

Cambodia IRAM Network

A-72 IP national network members of Cambodian indigenous peoples has been formed and reviewed the existing IRAM and the 260 focal persons of IP working groups, based on existing networks and selection of representatives by empowered communities. The network is supporting indigenous communities with knowledge of their rights and how to obtain them. There will [...]

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Village Organizing Program

Village Organizing Program

Indigenous communities, while having the desire to have communal land titles, need to to be well-organized, have strong identity and have the legal recognition in order to legally own land as a community. In order to obtain legal recognition, communities must first organize, develop management plans for the future, and have statutes that outline the [...]

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Natural Resources Management

Natural Resources Management

The management of natural resources and the work on land cases of the indigenous communities in the four districts areas was undertaken by key natural resource management networks with connections to other networks. This received support from the ICSO holistic development project in collaboration with the elders, youths NGOs and local authorities.
Community networks raised the [...]

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Indigenous Women Empowerment

Indigenous Women Empowerment

ICSO has identified that women groups in communities have a central and crucial role in revitalizing indigenous villages, for strengthening community solidarity, and for a successful advocacy. ICSO therefore has a rights defense program with a gender perspective. ICSO has addressed this issue by planning and organizing a particular program sector, Indigenous Women Empowerment Project, [...]

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Community Organizing Training

Community Organizing Training

The COT is implemented with the support and guidance of advisory councils within each district. These councils are mainly elders, supportive commune councilors, and other key community leaders. They donate their time to discuss progress of the training, the progress of the trainees in their community work, and address any problems that may arise. They [...]

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Community Media Training

Community Media Training

A film production workshop was successfully facilitated by the national community media training unit in collaboration with Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) and Women Media Center (WMC). This workshop aided the production of video regarding effects of Economic Land Concession and the state of communities’ participation in Rattankairi.
Community media advisory group and network members were [...]

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ToR for Provicial Program Assistant

ICSO PPA_Job Announcement

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Bor Keo district

Bor Keo district

-       Natural Resource Management
-       Community Organizing Training
-       Indigenous Women Empowerment

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Capacity Building Unit

Capacity Building Unit

National capacity-building unit played a very important role in transforming the Indigenous Rights Active Members (IRAM) into Indigenous People Working Group (IPWG). It organized the 77 indigenous leaders from the 15 provinces to constitute the IPWG, and facilitated the selection of 356 focal point persons from 80 villages in 9 provinces. Likewise, it has initiated [...]

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Networking

The Cambodia IRAM Network
Traditional indigenous communities are organized at the level of villages. However, the challenges that indigenous communities are now facing can seldom be solved just at such level. New challenges forces indigenous communities to establish links and networks in order to extend their capacity for solidarity, advocacy and rights defense.  Through the support [...]

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Mondulkiri

Mondulkiri

Mundulkiri program implementation was officially launched in May 2009 with the support from PYD, a new partner of ICSO. The purpose of this program extension is to initiate the provincial office operation to connect and link the IP and NGO networks within the existing provinces as well as the national level for supporting IP community [...]

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O Yadav district

O Yadav district

O Yadav district borders Vietnam and is predominantly inhabited by Jarai people.. The border between Cambodia and Vietnam, as many other colonial borders, didn’t take into consideration the Jarai people distribution and has divided their community into separated nationalities. Despite that, and not without difficulties, Jarai maintain family, clan and cultural links across the border. [...]

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O Chum district

O Chum district

O’Chum district is located just to the north of the provincial capital, Ban Lung. The territory is still quite preserved, even if in the last few years land grabbing and illegal land sales have increased.
O’Chum is predominantly inhabited by Kreung and Tampuan people. The district has a long tradition of involvement in Natural Resources Protection [...]

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