All publications: Cambodia

Cambodia Decent Work Country Programme for 2024-2028

The 2024–28 Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for the Kingdom of Cambodia provides a five-year framework for cooperation between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the national constituents (the Cambodia Government and employers’ and...

Integrated approaches for formalization in Asia and the Pacific

This report highlights why the multi-faceted dimensions of informality demand an integrated approach to formalization, outlines the nature of an integrated approach to employment formalization, reviews the extent that countries in Asia and the...

ILO Financial Education brochure

This brochure introduces the main objectives and characteristics of the ILO Financial Education programme including the key elements of the ILO approach, the major results achieved by the programme as well as its key features and implementation...

Project brief

Ensuring Decent Work and Reducing Vulnerabilities for Women and Children in the Context of Labour Migration in Southeast Asia

Assessment of the Cambodian National Social Security Fund’s health insurance schemes

This study analyses the design, operation and achievements of the health insurance schemes of the Cambodian National Social Security Fund (NSSF), and proposes options and ideas for improvement of the healthcare system

Publication

Extending social protection for workers in Cambodia: A study to understand the characteristics of workers and enterprises in the informal...

This report presents a study of the Cambodia labour force using data from the 2019 Cambodia Labour Force Survey (LFS) and 2019 Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (SES). It provides a detailed analysis of the characteristics of workers and the respective...

Policy Brief

Workers in the Cambodian informal economy

Informality is pervasive in Cambodia: 88.3 per cent of workers are engaged in informal employment. This brief offers insights into labour informality indicators based on the 2019 LFS.

Policy Brief

The paths to formalization in Cambodia

This brief examines the context and challenges associated with formalizing enterprises and employment in Cambodia, and provides a range of policy options that can be included in an integrated strategy for formalization

Fact Sheet of Advancing Social Protection in Cambodia

Advancing social protection in Cambodia extends social protection coverage and quality of provisions by improving operational capabilities of social protection institutions and the adaptability of existing schemes to the characteristics and needs of...

Training manual for service providers

Supporting migrant workers with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) during labour...

This training manual is intended for migrant worker resource centres (MRCs) and other service providers who provide information and support services to migrant workers. It enables service providers to improve their knowledge and understanding of the...

Labour inspection practices for domestic work in ASEAN

Promising practices in labour inspection in the context of domestic work in ASEAN

This paper highlights promising practices in labour inspection in the context of domestic work, considering the role of gender-responsive policies in responding to the short- and longer-term impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

Brief on labour migration statistics

Making women migrant workers count: Sex disaggregation of labour migration statistics in ASEAN

This brief provides an overview of sex-disaggregated international labour migration statistics (ILMS) in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

Research Brief

Disability rights and domestic work in ASEAN

In 2023 the ILO TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme conducted a study about the skills and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, the findings from which were published in the report Skilled to care, forced to...

An appraisal of EIIP’s longer-term development impacts

The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of how the project implementation related activities of the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) generate long-term development impacts which arise out of: (a) the benefits for users...

Organizing domestic workers

Talking to trade unions/ affiliates/ members about domestic work

This guide, developed in conjunction with the ASEAN Trade Union Council, equips advocates and champions to answer the questions often heard when talking to trade unions and trade union members about organizing more domestic workers and working...

Organizing domestic workers

Talking to policy makers / politicians about domestic work

This guide, developed in conjunction with the ASEAN Trade Union Council, equips advocates and champions to answer the questions often heard when talking to parliamentarians and policy makers about improving protection for domestic workers. It also...

Organizing domestic workers

Talking to service providers about domestic work

This guide, developed in conjunction with the ASEAN Trade Union Council, equips advocates and champions to answer the questions often heard when talking to service providers about improving their services for domestic workers. It also gives the...

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A review of the implementation of Recommendations (3rd to 14th Forums)

This report is the sixth in a series of progress review background papers, biennially prepared by the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, that track the progress of ASEAN stakeholders in implementing recommendations adopted at previous AFMLs.

TRIANGLE in ASEAN

Resumption of labour migration and regional cooperation

Thematic background paper for the 15th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Policy Brief

Minimum wage response to COVID-19 and inflation crises: An Asia-Pacific region overview

This policy brief presents a comprehensive analysis of nominal and real minimum wages in the Asia-Pacific region from 2015 to 2022, taking into account the impact of inflation on the purchasing power of workers. Concentrating on 22 countries with...